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Originally Posted by jfrog
I agree! The reason I'm so interested in the atonement is that it's the single greatest revelation of who God is and what sin is that we have ever been given.
To be effective at restoring our relationship with God, Christ had to take away our sin. When I think of sin, I think of something that is inseparable from me. My sin by it's very nature is mine. I cannot give my sin to another man, though others may very well feel it's effects. I cannot remove that sin by any amount of righteousness that I have done before I committed it or that I do after it. That sin has become part of who I am. It is part of what defines me. Maybe I will do it over and over again until I die. Or maybe I will turn from it and never do it again. If I do it until I die then I will be the one who kept committing that sin. If I only do it once, I will be the one who committed that sin once. Either way it's still part of who I am. This is my conception of what sin is.
So what was the meaning of Christ's death with this conception of sin? I'll have to get back to you on that. It is getting late and I cannot think very clear at the moment.
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jfrog
Just a few things I have come to understand in the last several years. Christ is our righteousness, when we beleive on him in faith. Just as Abraham was made righteous when he beleived God Because of his faith. Romans chapter 4.
2. What is sin? I have found many of the things I was taught to be sin were mens traditions based on misinterpretion of scripture. Read what the early church instructed the Gentile church to obstain from.
Acts 15:19-20
Just a couple of thoughts before I run to go to work
God bless
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