Once
His sacrificial death and resurrection occurred those in the OT who had faith in God had their sins taken away, but not before then.
Not exact matches
Such a severe penalty leaves room for God's grace
and mercy (totally underserved) for those who believe in Jesus
sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary
and His redemptive
resurrection.
Likewise, the Isa of the Qur» an is an artificial construct designed to undercut the authentic, New Covenant Jesus»
sacrificial death,
resurrection,
and free offer of salvation to all Muslims... all of which Muslim apologists
and teachers deny.
God allowed the OT saints to «write checks» through the animal
sacrificial system, but it was Jesus»
death and resurrection that put the money into the account
and actually took away their sins.
Instead, Jesus came to inaugurate a new bloodline of relatives, a family connected by the means of His
sacrificial death and life - restoring
resurrection on our behalf.
What the Roman mass has been saying in glorious drama through the centuries is that in the
sacrificial death and triumphant
resurrection of Christ, ever repeated through the most solemn rites of the Church, the God who has acted in him for our redemption is here at the altar
and will act again
and now for those who seek him in true penitence
and faith.
That Love, humanly expressed to the point of
sacrificial death, was validated
and confirmed, for Christian faith, in the
resurrection of embodied Love from
death and hatred, evil
and deception.
Finally, the Christian view of
death, grounded in Jesus»
resurrection, is the only foundation solid enough on which to build a movement of costly,
sacrificial confrontation with nuclear militaristic madness
and entrenched economic injustice.