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To: RnMomof7
The High Priest would place his hands on the goat's head and confess over it the sins of the nation of Israel . Israel's sin was symbolically transferred to the goat.

True, but on Jesus was laid the sins of the whole world. So if you use the scapegoat analogy, then Jesus substitutionary atonement reached every sin of every man. The scapegoat was a limited atonement and the lamb was an unlimited atonement.

Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

393 posted on 09/05/2004 6:24:56 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe

Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.


If you take this verse literally, then all sin would be gone already - we would be living in Eden again. This is obviously not true. There is obviously a limit to the removal of sin in some way. The verse might be saying that it will (in the future) take away every sinners sin but this would be universalism. It could also mean that Christ will remove sin from the world eventually (i.e. when He comes again). This may speak more about a coming world in which sin no longer reigns...

In light of the whole of scripture, I tend more toward the latter interpretation.


394 posted on 09/05/2004 6:39:40 PM PDT by visually_augmented (I was blind, but now I see)
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