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The False Teaching
Hebrews 9:
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And nearly everything is cleansed with blood according to the law, and apart
from shedding of blood, forgiveness does not come to pass.
23 Therefore [there is] necessity the copy of the [things] in the
heavens be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things [are cleansed]
by [a] greater sacrifice
beside these [things]. 24 For not into [a] Holies made with hands did Christ enter,
corresponding to the true, but into the heavenly [one] now to appear to God's
face in our behalf;
25 not in
order that he often offer himself, as the chief-priest entered into the
Holies yearly with another's blood,
26 since it was necessary he often
suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once to the consummation of
eternity for the setting-aside of sins through his sacrifice he is revealed.
Billy Graham: Why did He do this? He did it for one reason: to become the final and complete sacrifice for our sins.
Catholic Catecism: 2100
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The only perfect sacrifice is the one that Christ offered on the cross
as a total offering to the Father's love and for our salvation.
Greek Orthodox: Atonement. (Gr. exilasmos). The redemptive activity of Christ in reconciling man to God. The Orthodox believe that Christ, through His death upon the
cross, atoned or paid for human sins.
As a Priest, Christ offers Himself as a victim for the life of the world. Through His sacrifice on the Cross, Christ "redeems us from
the curse of the law, by His precious blood," bestowing "immortality upon humankind"
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Exposing the Error
When
one has displeased the god, one must purchase the gods favor by giving
the god something of value -- a sacrifice. That's the idea we have
received from primitive man, amended and elaborated.
A professional class necessarily appeared to manage the practice and so
arose many an hierarchy, priests, altars, temples and sacrifices. To
assure that the god will be satisfied with the sacrifice, the ancients
(and some current peoples -- now rare) burned their precious children
and others on the altars of the god as directed and administered by
their priests. Wikipedia has a good summation. The Christian belief in sacrificial atonement is a remnant of this ancient superstition. This is the source of the doctrine that makes a sacrifice of atonement of the death of Jesus.
It is abhorrent to the Father in heaven, this doctrine that makes
of Him one that offers up the sacrifice of his Son on the bloody altar
of the cross and that can be satisfied only by the shedding of his
Son's innocent blood. It is the ultimate insult that places Him in the
company of the imagined gods of the ancients -- demanding satisfaction
through sacrifices -- and that places his Son, Jesus, in the
company of the pagan priests in all cultures that gathered around their
bloody altars slaying children, men, and beasts in efforts to satisfy
their gods. What irony -- that this doctrine that is a
maximum insult to our Lord and his Father in heaven should be preached in his name
as the only means to achieve the Father's favor and forgiveness. There
is no comfort in knowing that Christians trust for their salvation in
their condemnation. it is so easily discerned that there can be
no excuse. Just begin listening to Jesus instead of Paul and the Light
will come!
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Declaring the Truth
Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what it means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice.
Matthew 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
The Lord stated it. The cross of Jesus was his alone and an example for us. Would you go to the Father? Listen:
Mark 8:34
If anyone would come
after me, let him renounce
himself and take up his
cross, and be following me.
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For whoever would save his
psyche-life
will lose
it, but whoever loses his
psyche-life because of me and the gospel will save it.
John 12:26
If anyone be serving me, he must
be following me,
and where I am, there also will be the [one] serving me.
John 17:13
But now I come to you, and I speak these [things] in the world
in order that they have my joy made full in them.
John 17:24
Father, whom you have given me, I wish that where I am they also be
with me, in order that they behold my glory, which you have given to me,
because you agape-loved me before the foundation of the world.
The Father wants only
that we love Him and come to him, and this one thing more: until our
hour has come, that we be merciful as he is merciful, for He desires
mercy and not sacrifice!
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, For they will be shown mercy.
The Son came to lead the merciful back to the
Father. We must choose: life in this world or life with the
Father; that is no sacrifice! Read More.
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