Saturday, October 1, 2011

Understanding the Bible

I am going to pretend that I am very smart in regards to the Holy Book, that I am some sort of deep understanding of Scripture matters -bear with me, I am just pretending.

Let's say I would give a speech in the following terms,
..Dear Christian, you have to understand that the Bible was given in such language that everyday human could grasp the mind Holy Author (or at least to comprehend what was He telling to us).

This is very idea of the parables or figure speaking. Therefor, they could be some passages that are intended to give more an idea than to explain the real "thing".

Passages such as "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." 1Co 5.21, would not mean that at some point Christ "was made" or "became" sinner -THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN!

We all understand (perhaps all of us) that the passage is yielding the idea that although He (Christ) never knew sin, God punished Him for the sin (or sins) of all humanity. As it is written in Isiah 53.3 "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

Because we could not earn redemption, God sent his only Son to die for us on the Cross. He received the punishment so we could be speared. Has the wrath of God come upon us no way we could stand it. Somewhere in the Bible says "the wages of sin is death", How could we then pay for such a price for our souls?

Only the immense value of the perfect/sinless life of the Son of God could be precious enough to pay for the ransom, meaning that Christ died so we could live "the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Ro 6.23"

...In a next post I will be extending these thoughts. See you then.

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