Ronald David Bruno
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Pardon me for the delay, my phone and internet have been down for two days - I'm in Texas.You have yet to explain how justice is exacted by the victim paying the price for the culprit.
Sin needs to be judged, it is a Biblical principle. From the beginning, God's plan was to send a Savior, who would sacrifice himself for our sins.
"The wages of sin is death ..." Rom. 6:23 That is the judgment, physical and spiritual death.
"For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul." Lev. 17:11
So animals were sacrificed, but this did not remove sin, just covered them, temporarily, He passed over them, but it was an imperfect practice. The Law could not be fulfilled. The Law was a shadow and animal sacrifices were symbolically pointing to a coming sacrifice, once and for all, Jesus.
It is impossible to remove sins by the blood of bulls and goats. (Hebrews 10:4)
But, "For by one offering, He has perfected forever, those who are being sanctified." Heb. 10:15
How? "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His Being ..." HEB. 1:3
You cannot be the radiance and exact representation of God unless you are God. God emptied Himself and became a man.
Christ, "whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God has passesd over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus" Rom. 3:25, 26
There is your justice, a sacrifice, "The just for the unjust". (1Pet.3:18)
Love is not at all elementary. In fact most people strive and yearn their entire lives trying to figure it out, to be fulfulled in that love.Don't speak in mystical nonsense terms, where you argument comes from trying to explain the elementary principles of what love is, or how egregious sin is.
God is love and the greatest act of love is that He gave His life for all.
" In this is LOVE, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:10
"He is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world." 1 John 2:2
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