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To: boatbums

> Sin requires punishment, it needs atonement.

G-d is merciful and constantly anticipates that those who want to return to Him will repent and correct their ways. When they do, G-d forgives them for their sins and does not punish them for the past.


897 posted on 12/04/2017 10:10:18 PM PST by Hrvatski Noahid
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To: Hrvatski Noahid
> Sin requires punishment, it needs atonement.<

G-d is merciful and constantly anticipates that those who want to return to Him will repent and correct their ways. When they do, G-d forgives them for their sins and does not punish them for the past.

No denying that God is merciful. If He wasn't we would all die in our sins and be condemned to an eternity separated from Him. But God is also JUST and all holy. He demands atonement for sin. What do you think He meant in Leviticus (the third book of Moses) about blood making atonement? Why did he require it? Do you just ignore that part?

901 posted on 12/04/2017 10:29:47 PM PST by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: Hrvatski Noahid
When they do, G-d forgives them for their sins and does not punish them for the past.

And the FUTURE ones...

What about THEM?

912 posted on 12/05/2017 4:01:54 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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