commonsense wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:14 am
dwight92070 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:51 pm
Dwight - So which of those "sons of God" shed their blood so that mankind could be forgiven of their sins? Which of those "sons of God" lived a life without sin? As you can see, there is only one Son of God like Jesus. The "others" can't hold a candle compared to Him.
Many of them shed their blood to teach the truth of God. The Levitical law wasn't the way. The sacrificing of animals, burning of incense,etc.etc. were the ways of foreign gods. God didn't need an animal sacrifice for people to be forgiven of sins. This is a false teaching. The way to be forgiven of sins was as the prophets say: Put away your sin and love others as yourself. This has always been the way. It was never any different.
I'm just curious, have you read the Old Testament?
Dwight - Your interpretation is heresy, since you are claiming that we get forgiveness of sins by some other method besides trusting in Jesus' blood sacrifice. He alone has atoned for the sins of mankind. No amount of so-called obedience to the prophets and so-called loving others as yourself will save you, since you are deliberately rejecting the truth of putting your trust and faith in Jesus. In fact, if you really were obeying the prophets and loving others, you would embrace the truth.
Dwight - The Lord told Moses in Deuteronomy 18:18 - "I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. It shall come about that whoever shall not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him."
Dwight - Peter identifies that prophet as being Jesus in Acts 3:18-23. Stephen also identifies that same prophet as Jesus in Acts 7: 37 and 52.
Dwight - Jesus Himself identified as that prophet: "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for He wrote about Me. But if you do not believe His writings, how will you believe My words.
Dwight - Not only have I read the Old Testament, but I actually believe it. The proper interpretation of the Old Testament is found in the New Testament. Have you read the New Testament? If you have, then you are willfully rejecting the truth in it, because Jesus ALONE atones for your sin, not the works of so-called obedience.
Dwight - Let me quote your heresy: "The way to be forgiven of sins was as the prophets say: Put away your sin and love others as yourself. This has always been the way. It was never any different."
Dwight - None of us can "put away our sins". We can't today and they couldn't back then. Even if we were able to stop sinning totally today, and for the rest of our lives (which none of us could do), we would still have a long record of past sins that we are totally powerless to erase. Hebrews 10:4 says, "For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." Yet God DID command Moses to institute animal sacrifices, NOT foreign Gods. This was a foreshadowing of the true sacrifice of Jesus' body and blood, which ALONE ERADICATES SIN. ALL OF OUR SINS ARE WASHED AWAY, BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS. NOTHING ELSE CAN DO THAT.
Dwight - But do we still sin? Yes, of course, but we try not to. "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:8
Dwight- "If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness (that is, continue willfully in sin), we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the light (that is, in Jesus' righteousness and forgiveness and cleansing), as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS HIS SON CLEANSES US FROM ALL SIN."
Dwight - So, an ON-GOING RELATIONSHIP WITH AND TRUST IN JESUS AND HIS BLOOD SACRIFICE IS NECESSARY TO BE A DISCIPLE OF JESUS AND TO BE SAVED. NOTHING ELSE WILL BRING US A CLEAN SLATE FROM THE PAST, PRESENT, OR FUTURE. NOTHING ELSE WILL SAVE US. HE IS TRULY OUR ONLY SAVIOR! APART FROM JESUS, WE'RE HOPELESSLY LOST.