Remember the Arc of the Covenent. Wouldn't the form of the Mercy Seat with a Cherub representing His Perfect Righteousness facing the other Cherub representing His Perfect Justice, always demand the propitiation offering in His Perfect Holiness? Whenever faced with Injustice, His Perfect Justice demands Perfect Righteousness and whenever faced with unrighteousness, His Perect Righteousness demanded Perfect Justice. Hence in the Garden at Adam's fall, the separation of man's perfect spirit from fellowship with Him demanded a perfect spirit be returned to Him.
When our Lord and Savior delivered His spirit to the Father, Jesus Christ suffered a spiritual death. He then sacrificed His soul by remaining faithful to the Father, while just hours before, all sin of mankind was imputed upon him.
An interesting aspect might be to resolve which Person of the Godhead removed the soul of Christ Jesus from His body.
Amen.
That's the "insulted" God theology of the West.
"Hence in the Garden at Adam's fall, the separation of man's perfect spirit from fellowship with Him demanded a perfect spirit be returned to Him."
When I read something like this, I honestly wonder if we worship the same God. Your God looks like a bloodthirsty monster to my Orthodox eyes. No wonder the West has rebelled against this in favor of a hedonistic secularism.
Right; however we believe that one cannot understand God by reading the Old Testament alone, and the New Testament is very far from the wrathful sacrifice-hungry God that the Old Testament sometimes seems to describe. Christians know God as the essence of being and of love.
Right; however we believe that one cannot understand God by reading the Old Testament alone, and the New Testament is very far from the wrathful sacrifice-hungry God that the Old Testament sometimes seems to describe. Christians know God as the essence of being and of love.