Hey blasater!
Long time no hear! hope you are doing well my friend!
Just want to add something to what you say right here:
Prayer, Repentance, Charity, Fasting all atone for sin. Plenty of scriptures available to show that. I believe that as well, however: It is hard to know the *Sincerity* of anyone by outside appearance works and deeds...
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Mark 7:21 For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
Mark 7:22 greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
IMO that is what makes every person *Soiled* and unclean in the face of ALmighty GOD....
Men can fool other MEN but never GOD....He sees us for who we truly are....
GOD Bless you and Shalom!
Tarah!
HI Tarah! Good to see you. I took a break :o).
Jeremiahs words are true for the UNrepentant person. But G-d knows our heart and compares the condition of our heart to our actions.
Ps 51:16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
The Nenevites prayed, fasted and repented. G-d knew they were sincere and forgave them. No blood. No sacrifice. No Jsus.
Shalom shalom Tarah!