I don't have time to post much right now, but thank you Daniel for your informative posts. The only place that the blood was applied was to the mercy seat and then that blood was appropriated as an atonement for the children of God. The washing at the laver was not the blood being applied. I don't recall any scripture that indicates the priest had blood on his hands when he observed the ceremonial cleansing at the laver. The blood was reserved for the mercy seat.
John's disciples were baptized for the remission of sins, but we know that it had nothing to do with the blood being applied because Jesus had not yet shed His blood.
Jesus was baptized to fulfill all righteousness. I believe we also fulfill all righteousness when we are baptized. Just as Abraham's faith and obedience was the basis for his righteousness, so our faith evidenced by our obedience in baptism identifies us with the righteousness of God and results in God conferring sonship and all the rights of sonship.
Can a person repent and not be forgiven? I feel that the PAJC position is so narrowly focused on making baptism the place where the blood is applied they miss other vital aspects of why a person needs to be baptized.
The blood is carried from the place of sacrifice right through the tabernacle to the mercy seat in the holiest of holies. We carry the blood with us from the moment we place faith in the sacrificial Lamb of God. We get into error when we try to separate the Spirit, the water, and the blood because they work in agreement not separately. (
1John 5:8)
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