The Lord spoke To Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a person unwittingly incurs guilt in regard to any of the Lord’s commandments about things not to be done and does one of them– Leviticus 4:1-2 JPS Unwittingly incurs guilt – “But I didn’t know!” We’d like to believe that this justification…
“Turn back, rebellious sons, said the LORD, for I have claimed possession of you, and have taken you . . .” Jeremiah 3:14a Robert Alter Turn back – What does it take to achieve forgiveness and atonement? Jeremiah says, “Repent and turn back.” That’s what it takes. But Leviticus 16:30 says that Yom Kippur brings…
For I handed down to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 1 Corinthians 15:3 NASB According to the Scriptures – Paul has a problem, or at least we think he does if we read this verse from a Christian perspective. Why? Because, as Adam Clarke…
nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified. …
Christ paid the price to free us from the curse that the laws in Moses’ Teachings bring by becoming cursed instead of us. Scripture says, “Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.” Galatians 3:13 (God’s Word translation, 1995, God’s Word to the Nations) Paid the price– Once more we examine the miserable translation of…
The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29 NASB Takes Away– “Take up and carry”? Or, maybe, “carry off.” The Greek verb, aíro, can mean either. “Whether the sense in Jn. 1:29 is ‘to take up and carry,’ i.e., in a…
“The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.” Ezekiel 18:20 NASB Person who sins – It’s…
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 1 Corinthians 15:3 NASB Died for our sins – The tiny preposition, hyper, is the critical element in Paul’s expression of the relationship between the Messiah’s death and our salvation. The problem…
. . . So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin. Leviticus 5:6b NASB Atonement – Baruch Levine emphasizes one of the most important characteristics of the Hebrew view of law when he says: . . . the laws of the Torah did not permit Israelites to expiate intentional or premeditated…
He shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the impurities of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and thus he shall do for the tent of meeting which abides with them in the midst of their impurities. Leviticus 16:16 NASB Which – How would…
