Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Wrigley
So, would you say the Mormons believe the gift can be taken back?

Does God hang onto His receipts?

101 posted on 04/23/2004 12:31:26 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 96 | View Replies ]


To: Alex Murphy; Wrigley
Does God hang onto His receipts?

You better believe He does. He embraces His Son, who said in Aramaic on the cross, "It is finished"--the same language used in His day to communicate, "It [the debt] is paid in full." Paul told the Corinthians, "You have been bought with a price." The very literal meaning of the word, "redemption" or "redeem" means "to buy back."

When the resurrected Jesus appeared to doubting Thomas, He still had His wounded hands. I believe the "receipt" Christ keeps for eternity is the scars of those wounds: He paid for our sins by receiving them--by becoming sin (2 Cor 5)...Peter added that became a curse for us.

Jesus suffered more than what The Passion showed. That showed His physical anguish, and, to some degree, His spiritual and mental anguish. But it did not and could not depict what it was like to be separated from the Father for the first time in eternity (to become accursed); to receive the full wrath of the Father for every sin we've ever committed (all of humanity); to literally be sin.

110 posted on 04/23/2004 12:47:36 PM PDT by Colofornian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 101 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson