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Then why did He say "It is finished" before He died? Whatever was finished was finished before the resurrection.

More stuff that isn't in the Bible. Speculation.
Nonsense. Why would unbelievers want to obey the law of God? And who are you to judge unbelievers?
Why did Jesus say "It is finished?"
The work that was prophesied Jesus would do was finished.

Isaiah 53:3-5 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (4) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (5) 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.

Psalms 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

John 19:23-24 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. (24) They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

Matthew 27:50-54 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. (51) And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; (52) And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, (53) And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. (54) Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

In 135 CE, many of the Jewish communities were massacred and Jews were banned from living inside Jerusalem. A pagan Roman temple was set up on the former site of Herod's Temple.

With a pagan temple setup on the site of Herod's Temple, Judaism is finished. All that is left is a fantasy in peoples minds. We are in a new dispensation at which Jesus is the head, and people fight it saying horrible things about the one they will one day answer to.
 
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Why did Jesus say "It is finished?"
The work that was prophesied Jesus would do was finished.

Isaiah 53:3-5 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (4) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (5) 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.

Psalms 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

John 19:23-24 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. (24) They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

Matthew 27:50-54 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. (51) And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; (52) And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, (53) And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. (54) Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

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Very nice dodge
 

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Then why did He say "It is finished" before He died? Whatever was finished was finished before the resurrection.

The way I look at it, Christ did all the suffering he could do to cleanse us of our sin, and just before giving up the ghost said, "it is finished." Don't diminish His sacrifice by saying He said that while alive. It is He that starts covenants, and it is He that ends covenants. So it ends when He says it ends. Then the sign of Jonah began for the Jews, and the resurrection was the manifestation that God accepted His Son's sacrifice and raised Him from the dead.

The New Covenant was what He preached. To believe on Him, be righteous to the core of your thoughts Matthew 5-6, not just the surface actions, and love both God and your neighbor. His preaching was like writing a will and testament that doesn't come into affect until the writer dies. The Day of Pentecost was the "reading of the will" when it came into affect for all those who repented, accepted Him, and He gave His powerful Spirit to to keep the New Covenant.
 

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The way I look at it, Christ did all the suffering he could do to cleanse us of our sin, and just before giving up the ghost said, "it is finished." Don't diminish His sacrifice by saying He said that while alive. It is He that starts covenants, and it is He that ends covenants. So it ends when He says it ends. Then the sign of Jonah began for the Jews, and the resurrection was the manifestation that God accepted His Son's sacrifice and raised Him from the dead.

The New Covenant was what He preached. To believe on Him, be righteous to the core of your thoughts Matthew 5-6, not just the surface actions, and love both God and your neighbor. His preaching was like writing a will and testament that doesn't come into affect until the writer dies. The Day of Pentecost was the "reading of the will" when it came into affect for all those who repented, accepted Him, and He gave His powerful Spirit to to keep the New Covenant.

Amen...there has to be a death for a New Covenant.

"For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance--now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant."
Hebrews 9:15
 

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I would put you on ignore, but it is people like you, who give me the opportunity to teach, and to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
You want to ignore me because you gave a non-answer to a question? "People like me?" Stop spouting speculation and rationalization and I'll stop calling you on it.
 
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It's a matter of semantics. You used the words "not inaccurate," I believe. Accuracy is not applicable to the number 613 (which is widely disputed) in the discussion regarding the total number of commands in the Torah or in the OT. This is a fact. I can't help that.
Ag please! Feeble... not expected from you
 
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So, come up with an accurate # that will represent the doctrine. Otherwise, you are going to have to live with the fact that the # 613 is used to represent a specific doctrine concerning holy scripture.

Because that # has come to represent that specific doctrine; and therefore if you are going to dispute that #, you need to come up with a # that can represent that doctrine in its place, lest you become guilty of making a doctrine of holy scripture unpreachable.
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Looks like Jesus to me. So it is you who diminishes Him. I didnt write the bible but i do believe whats written in it. You should try to do the same

HEBREWS 4
[8] For IF JESUS HAD GIVEN THEM REST, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.[9] THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST to the people of God.

Good! Written "Jesus", not <Joshua>.
 

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There are 1,050 commands in the New Testament for Christians to obey. Due to repetitions we can classify them under 69 headings. They cover every phase of man's life in his relationship to God and his fellowmen, now and hereafter. If obeyed, they will bring rich rewards here and forever; if disobeyed, they will bring condemnation and eternal punishment. Are the 69 found in the new testament figured in the 613? Must we follow those 69 commandments in order to be saved

There is ONE Command in the entire Two Testaments for all True Believers to obey. Due to the increase in sin we can't classify all the resultant Laws under any number of headings. They had to cover every phase of man's life in the history of his bedevilled relationships with God and his fellowmen, up until now. If the One Commandment (Two-In-One) be obeyed, it would bring rich rewards here and forever -- which Christ indeed did in our place on our behalf for our perfected salvation IN HIM. Is this One Law of God found in the New Testament, it figures it is found in the Old Testament AS WELL. But we disobeyed the LAW OF GOD, and brought condemnation and eternal punishment upon ourselves AS DID ISRAEL of old. And THIS ONLY LAW OF GOD is found in the TEN Commandments make no mistake! And in the Fourth Commandment par excellence! Must we follow This ONE Command / Commandment in order to be saved? IT IS WRITTEN, Yes! Say no more.
 

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Good! Written "Jesus", not <Joshua>.
Would not His Hebrew speaking friends have called Him Yeshua though? (Joshua) I can't imagine them calling Him a Greek transliteration. I would also suggest that despite the NT bring translated into Greek at one stage and being handed down to us on that form, the original letter to the Hebrews would hardly be written in Greek. That makes no sense. So while I believe the original letter said Yeshua, it wasn't referring to the Hebrew soldier under Moses tutelage. After all, the Angel of the Presence who was the true leader of Israel through their journey from Egypt was the Son of God.
 
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Don't diminish His sacrifice by saying He said that while alive.
Do you think I would do such a thing, CL? I'm suggesting that what was finished might not be what some people think was finished. The resurrection was necessary to complete the death to sin - new life in Christ motif. So it must have been something besides general atonement that was finished whet He announced it. Even the ascension was part of the atonement ("Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father"). The Sanctuary services weren't merely a wanton bloodbath of poor, dumb animals. The plan of salvation was on display for the world to see.

The Calvary event is and always will be the centerpiece of time, space, and matter. It is the sublime expression of Godly (self-sacrificing, other-centered) love. Words can't describe the glory and beauty of it. The altar of burnt offering was at the entrance to the tent of meeting, not the ultimate destination--the Holy of Holies. But being at the entrance, it was the way for the sinner and the end. But atonement is not completed there.

What was finished (besides the first phase of redemption) was the unfallen angels' sympathy for Satan. Did you not read the chapter called "It Is Finished" in Desire Of Ages when you were an Adventist?

The Desire Of Ages - Chapter 79 - It Is Finished

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The way I look at it, Christ did all the suffering he could do to cleanse us of our sin, and just before giving up the ghost said, "it is finished."
that is what they teach us on the first day of "church" anyway, right
and the resurrection was the manifestation that God accepted His Son's sacrifice and raised Him from the dead.
so now you have a getoutofjailfree card for the "afterlife," yay!
i dont mean to be denigrating tho, and best of luck to you, Esau