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To: fproy2222

Correction

Now did Jesus DIE for YOUR sins or the Sins of Adam?

And what is this stuff about “sealing the atonement” on the cross?

Did you make that up, or is this official Mormon doctrine?

Educate me.


45 posted on 11/27/2007 12:04:27 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe
Now did Jesus DIE for YOUR sins or the Sins of Adam?

+++ Yes to both.


------ And what is this stuff about “sealing the atonement” on the cross?

Did you make that up, or is this official Mormon doctrine?

+++ Maybe not canonized doctrine, but well excepted.

“...the reference [in 1 Peter] to sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ recalls the fact that the Old Covenant was sealed by the sprinkling of blood. Jesus’ atonement was the New Covenant, which superseded the Old. ...”
Donald W. Parry, ed., Temples of the Ancient World: Ritual and Symbolism [Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book Co., Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1994], 497.)

47 posted on 11/28/2007 12:43:04 AM PST by fproy2222 (If you want to know the truth, study both sides. To the most original source.)
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