08-20-2020, 03:31 PM
(08-20-2020, 11:32 AM)ImAHebrew Wrote: Shalom Jason, it appears that you must agree in how the missionaires view their interpretation of the NT with their "Jesus" dying as their substitute FOR them? Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.
I know that the New Testament teaches that Jesus provided remission of sins through his blood. Yes, that is a cornerstone teaching of the New Testament. If you don't believe in that teaching, then you don't believe in the New Testament.
Romans 3:25 (NIV)
"God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith."
Romans 5:9 (NIV)
"Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!"
Ephesians 1:7 (NIV)
"In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace..."
Hebrews 13:12 (NIV)
"And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood."
Revelation 1:5 (NIV)
"and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood..."
I'm sorry, but if you don't believe this, then you don't believe in the New Testament. You cannot believe in Jesus as anything if you don't believe in blood atonement.
My advice? Just get rid of faith in Jesus already. Jesus was not the Messiah. He wasn't God incarnate. He wasn't a blood sacrifice. He wasn't the king of the Jews. He wasn't a great teacher. He was nothing. Just stop believing in him already. You've already undermined any reason that you might ever have had for believing in that stuff. Just take the next logical step and let it go.