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Pikachu There is an inner science of blood atonement.
The basic mechanics of blood atonement are revealed by the Lord Jesus Christ when He says in John 3:14, "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:"
The event here He is citing is recorded in Numbers 21, where a serpent bites are cured through Moses' serpent of brass. This is the law of similarity. Like for like, like cures like, like produces like, like has an affinity for like. Just as today when a man is bitten by a snake, doctors produce antiserum from the venom of the snake. Like cures like.
The death of the Messiah cures your death. This is the basic mechanics of blood atonement.
People will ask why did Jesus Christ have to be pierced and bleed? Why the blood? It is a statute. And blood is the most powerful substance on earth. And we are talking about God's own pure blood - the most powerful. Leviticus 17:11 says, "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul."
Do you realize that the Bible knew that the life of the flesh is in the blood thousands of years before science did? For centuries doctors foolishly drained the blood out of their patients resulting in certain death. They even did so to George Washington, because even then science did not discover what the Bible knew thousands of years earlier about the nature of blood.
Matthew 26:28 - For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Colossians 1:14 - In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
Hebrews 9:12 - Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Hebrews 9:22 - And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
People will ask why did God have to become a man in order to save other men? If two objects A and B are similar in their properties then a change in A can cause a corresponding change in B. In order for the effects of Jesus Christs atonement to reach other men, an ether link channel must be established. An antenna was set up so that that frequency would create an ether link, a channel whereby He could affect another man. God had to become a man to create that ether link, where the effects of His atonement could accrue to those who have faith in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:21 - For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
1 Peter 2:24 - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Judgement/retribution and justice/compassion are two sides of the same coin, just like love and hate are two sides of the same coin.
Real love hates evil. Without a deadly hatred of that which threatens what we love, love is an empty catchword for hippies, queers and cowards.
One of the reasons our society is in such a mess is because our society has a fake love. The cultural marxists have, in typical Orwellian newspeak fashion, redefined the word love to mean tolerate and accept everything. Aristotle said, "Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society." True love hates evil. if you love justice, you'll hate robbery and murder, if you love children, you'll hate pedophiles, if you love the flowers, you'll hate the weeds, if you love God, you'll hate Satan. This modern view that all hate is bad is so strange and stupid. Hate is a natural part of the spectrum of human emotions. It means a strong aversion to something.
Romans 12:9 - Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Notice how it says let love be without dissimulation. Dissimulation - a simulation is a fake. This verse is saying do not let your love be fake and then it proceeds to define what real love is, which is abhorring or hating that which is evil.
Just like you can't have true love without hate, you can't have true justice without judgement. This should be common knowledge, but it is very controversial today because of words constantly being redefined to fit a politically correct agenda. Words like judgement, justice and compassion have been redefined. A very convenient tool in order to try and control the game.
Also, in your atheistic worldview of moral relativism, you can't even justify why justice and compassion are good, because in your worldview there is no such thing as good and evil; it's all based on the ever changing subjective feelings of man, so your worldview has no such thing as absolute morality because you don't have an absolute moral law giver and a final authority to base anything on. So, you even commenting on that is a non-sequitur and a form of doublethink really.
You atheists claim to be so smart, scientific and logical, but then your whole premise is so illogical because here's your argument basically: we don't like God and he's not pleasant to us and we don't approve of him, so therefore he must not exist. That doesn't even make any sense.
Romans 1:22 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Psalms 14:1 - The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
I'm not very pleasant to atheists, yet I exist. Apparently things can exist without you approving of them. And the creator of the universe doesn't need your approval to exist.
Also, you don't get to define words. You are not the arbiter of anything. You did not create the universe. Don't worship your own limited and faulty mind. The atheist worships his own intellect and reasoning. Just think about it: the intellect and reasoning that the atheist worships comes from a limited brain that can only detect 0.0035 percent of the electromagnetic spectrum -visible light - (of which that entire electromagnetic spectrum itself is only a fraction of what can be seen and exists in the universe). A brain that can't hear a dog whistle or even see certain patterns on plants that some insects can see. A limited 3 pound brain that certainly cannot fit the infinite God of the Bible inside of or in the tiny box of "proof" and "evidence" which that limited brain has created.
You expect to read the Bible and have God thinking just the way you think and agreeing with you on everything. You expect God to be just like you. That's your problem. Think about how insane this is. Basically what you are saying is that you are this unique unicorn where your personal views and what you think in your heart is the exact way the creator of the universe thinks and feels. You have a God complex. You think that you have all the correct answers within and expect God to match that perfectly. Then if God doesn't match that perfectly, you're going to judge God. And you'll start to question: "Why would a loving God do this?" "Why didn't God do it this way?" "Why would God allow this to happen". The Atheist approaches the Bible expecting God to agree with every feeling and thought they have in their heart that seems true, which is the utmost arrogance.
Now, what are these feelings and thoughts in the heart that seem true? It's everything you've watched on TV your whole life, it's a combination of everything you've heard on the radio, read in magazines and books, learned from your parents, learned in school and everything the media has taught you. Can you really trust that? Do you think that you're the final judge of what's right and wrong? You see our own heart is not a trustworthy source of truth. In fact, the Bible says "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" - Jer 17:9
You are lead by your own deceitful and wicked heart or as some might say, your own inner voice, which is a result of aforementioned influences. The kind of inner voice that says, "Would a loving God really torch Sodom and Gomorrah? That just doesn't FEEL right to me." Well, who the hell are you? You're nobody. Who cares what you think. Your opinion is just what happened to be taught to you by culture and society. And society and culture had radically different views just a couple of decades ago. So, what doesn't seem right to you in the Bible is irrelevant. The Bible says in Proverbs 14:12, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death."
So, I decided to put my faith and trust in what the Word of God says on every subject and when what I think and the Word of God says conflict, I am going to say that I am wrong and The Bible is right. I made the decision a long time ago that whatever the Bible says I am just going to believe it because the Bible says "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool...." It also says in Proverbs 3:5-6, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
Why put your faith in a society and CULTure that is constantly changing? The Word Cult is in culture for a reason. Put your faith in the God of the Bible, who NEVER changes. "For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” - Malachi 3:6
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." - Hebrews 13:8.
Gods Word is the final authority. Let God be true, but every man a liar! Let God be righteous and let us be unrighteous. We are wrong and He is the one who is right. That is where you need to get in life, my friend.
You'll probably say, "how can you just blindly believe the Bible?" How can you just blindly believe what your cartoon, movie, rockin roll music filled mind tells you what is right all the time? What are you listening to? Some voice inside that just happens to be telling you whatever TV and the media is telling you? Isn't it interesting that you have an inner voice telling you the same things that millions of other people are being told by their inner voice, that nobody had an inner voice telling them that in the 50's, 60's and 70's.
God's not unrighteous, You're unrighteous. We all are unrighteous. God is right. Everything God does is right and all of his judgments are right. He's right about every subject all the time. God is the author of righteousness and He decides what is righteous and what isn't. You don't. You don't get to stand in Judgement of God. God is the one who makes the rules.
