The great
sin of the people who lived at the time of the flood invited in the destruction that took their lives.
So what you are saying is that God sacrificed himself to himself in order to
forgive sins of the people he created (when creating said people knowing perfectly well what they would do) from hell (a place he created) which tortures people for just being the way God knew you would be when creating you.
My point to you is this, as clearly as I can make it; The scandals and
sins of people involved with the Church have little or nothing to do with the Church body as a whole.
It was a Tradition embroiled in the life, loves and
sins of all people everywhere and was strongly organisational, authoritative and liturgical (meaning that it catered in its acts and life of prayer for the mass of the people to whom it addressed itself).
One last thing, the Bible also states that this all powerful god tortured and murdered his son to
forgive sins of ppl that this god knows will sin and will continue to sin after the death of Jesus.
However the sacrifice of an animal for
the sins of people was only good for a year.
You can't charge non-related religions with
the sins of people practicing other religions in other eras.
If you study the sacrifices the jews made in the temple, you see the symbolism of the lamb of God being slain and his blood covering
the sins of the people.
And like Daniel, I own
the sins of my people.
And this church is a shining example of Christ's love, marred by
the sins of its people.
How is it moral to look to a child sacrifice as redemption of
the sins of people not even yet born?
God can forgive all
the sins of all people in all the world, without a single one of them receiving the righteousness of God.
In Christian theology, responsibility for the death of Jesus rests with God (Acts 3:17 - 8), or with all people, because it is believed that Jesus died for
the sins of all people.
21:4 - 9) There is transfer magic also in the idea of the scapegoat, by which
the sins of the people were loaded onto a goat that was then sent off into the wilderness.
Hebrews 2:14 - 17 Therefore, since children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil... 17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make the propitiation for
the sins of the people.
Another theory, especially associated with Archbishop Anselm (c.1033 - 1109) is that Christ, who is spoken of as «the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world», is the sinless offering who makes a universal expiation (or compensation) for
the sins of all people.
In the Old Testament, when God looks like He is behaving in ways that do not match the nature and character of God as revealed in Jesus Christ, this is not because God is being deceptive, but because God is taking
the sins of His people upon Himself just as Jesus did on the cross.
It is not a lie for God to take
the sins of His people upon Himself.
Certainly, since He is God and since He bore
every sin of every person, He experienced this separation to an infinite degree.
You'd do well to look into the old ways of the «two» priests it required for the atonement of
sin of the people — one for the inner court and one for the outer court, and the two animals — the spotless sacrificial lamb, and the scapegoat of whom the blood of that sacrificial lamb was placed and sent into the wilderness.
Yet when Jesus went to the cross, He took
the sins of all people, throughout all time, upon Himself.
It appears that when Jesus took
the sin of all people upon Himself, a separation came between Him and God that had never before existed.
And yet, you sit there and fully put
the sins of some people of faith on all of them?
Jesus our scapegoat, made atonement for
the sins of His people, so that they may be righteous before the Father in Christ.
And the Passover is the feast of sacrifice and atonement, when the high priest from the Holy of Holies sends the lamb carrying
the sins of the people to its death.
«Whoever can stop... the people of his city from sinning, but does not... is held responsible for
the sins of the people of his city.
The text says that
the sins of the people will be born by an innocent man.
We can see that this might make sense to someone brought up in the ancient Jewish tradition in which an unblemished animal was sacrificed to God to make atonement for
the sins of the people, and in which the iniquities of Israel were all put on the head of a goat which was then driven out into the wilderness, taking the people's sins with it.
The sacrifices are repeated daily because
the sins of the people still remain.
But the deepest christological significance of this story is that God's grace covers
the sins of all people, for we are all Cains in the sight of God before whom we are all guilty of the murder of his Son.
The High Priest now lays
the sins of the people on the second goat, and the goat is led out of the city and into the wilderness (Lev 16:21 - 22).
He taught the world about the kingdom of God coming and how his creation could be ready for its coming, how he would die for
the sins of the people of the world and how he would be raised up the third day and be seated at the right hand of his Father.
Of course, God's action of taking the blame for
the sin of His people does not begin with Israel, but with the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
ln some way
the sins of the people were transferred to the animal and thus borne away.
loc, B. Lohmeyer, Das Evangelium des Markus [1937], ad loc., seek in vain to avoid this conclusion, which is supported by the strong Greek expressions for «tremble and shrink», by giving explanations which do not fit the situation, in which Jesus already knows that He must suffer for
the sins of His people [Last Supper].
In addition to putting away
the sins of His people, Christ's redemption secured everything necessary for their salvation, including faith, which unites them to Him.
The sins of the people were then, as it were, transferred to the goat.
The walls are down and the gates have been burned by fire, per - say, and like in Nehemiah's day, we need to confess
the sins of our people so that our land can be healed.
Since sin cannibalizes itself,
the sin of the people at the time of the flood brought the waters of destruction upon themselves.
If he speaks of
the sins of his people and his community as though he were exempt from the failings of the rest of humanity, he will, in effect, be speaking down to his people.
The idea of having one's name written in heaven is familiar from the Old Testament, beginning with Moses» petition to be blotted out of God's book if
the sin of the people is not forgiven (Ex 32:32; cf. Is 4:3; Dan 12:1; Rev 3:5).
They went to Mt. Sinai, where God gave them instruction about the sacrificial system and the law, and how when the priest laid his hands on the animal to be sacrificed,
the sins of the people were transferred onto that bull, or ram or goat and it was killed in their place for their sin.