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Little bit of twisting to foster the notion we need priests from birth to final breath. Putting the word "hope" out there as an indication that we haven't been redeemed by Christ is a real stretch - nobody still breathing is participating in the Eternal Glory of Heaven - the body must first perish.

Of course, God could have lied to us here: Jeremiah 31:34New International Version (NIV)

34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”

God told us that the New Covenant would change things. The Old Covenant and the rendering of the Commandments/Law was specifically to prove to the stiff-necked lot, who challenged God to give them the rule book, that they could not become worthy of their own efforts - it was designed to increase sin via the breaking of all the commandments that were insisted upon. Did God mean it when he spoke through Jeremiah that he would forgive our wickedness and recognize our sins no more? Was it a trick statement? Did Jesus have to die for something that mortals could accomplish?

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“God told us that the New Covenant would change things. The Old Covenant and the rendering of the Commandments/Law was specifically to prove to the stiff-necked lot, who challenged God to give them the rule book, that they could not become worthy of their own efforts - it was designed to increase sin via the breaking of all the commandments that were insisted upon. Did God mean it when he spoke through Jeremiah that he would forgive our wickedness and recognize our sins no more? Was it a trick statement? Did Jesus have to die for something that mortals could accomplish? “

Brilliant.

[boatbums]

Well said!