In my experience metaphors or analogies usually cause problems when it comes to doctrine. God hasn't promised us a Cherry ride that I've seen. It appears that you are asserting a doctrine of the living saints being kinsman redeemers for what? Creation? The provided passages don't seem to establish such a doctrine.
You lost me. Can you clarify?
Colossians 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions.
How do I do my share?
By sharing in Christ's afflictions:
Romans 8:17Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.Romans 8:18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.2 Corinthians 1:5For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.2 Corinthians 4:10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.Philippians 3:10I want to know Christ--yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,2 Timothy 2:12if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us;
What did Christ's afflictions accomplish?
Compensation. Two things must happen when a criminal is apprehended: expiation and propitiation.
The bank must be returned their loss. The crime has been expiated, restored to a condition of never having happened.
The criminal must serve jail time. The system of justice has been served. Deterrence has been enacted. Banks can operate, satisfied that security, law and order has been enforced, the conditions are amenable to doing business. Society can function, secure in the thought that action has been taken to ensure the crime will not be repeated. Propitiation has happened.
Christ qualified himself to represent the old humanity:
Hebrews 2:14Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.
What can the death of one man accomplish?
It satisfies justice of the wages of sin required from him.
Numbers 35:30If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the evidence of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
What is required to satisfy the justice required for the sins of all humanity?
The death of a man without blemish:
Hebrews 7:23Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; 24but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. 25Therefore he is able to save completelyc those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.26Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens. 27Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. 28For the law appoints as high priests men in all their weakness; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
http://www.frame-poythress.org/ebooks/the-shadow-of-christ-in-the-law-of-moses/QuoteWe may return to the same conclusion that we reached before: the sacrifice of animals is inadequate to achieve final cleansing, nor can it cleanse anything more than the copies of heavenly things. Then who will bring the definitive sacrifice? A man must do it. A similar point is made indirectly in Num. 35:33-34: “Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.” When a man had shed blood, the man must die. But there is one exception, when the blood of the death of the high priest releases a manslaughterer to return home (Num. 35:25-28). The blood of the high priest has special value. In agreement with this principle, Zech. 3 uses all the symbolism of a defiled human high priest Joshua and then speaks mysteriously of the Branch in connection with which “I will remove the sin of this land in a single day” (Zech. 3:9).
How could Adam subdue creation?
By walking with God:
Genesis 1:27So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
What happened when Adam disobeyed God?
He was not able to subdue his body, nor could his descendants:
17To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’Genesus 3:17“Cursed is the ground because of you;through painful toil you will eat food from itall the days of your life.18It will produce thorns and thistles for you,and you will eat the plants of the field.19By the sweat of your browyou will eat your fooduntil you return to the ground,since from it you were taken;for dust you areand to dust you will return.”
What does satisfying justice accomplish:
The new man can walk with God, be in union with God again, by being in Christ:20“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Therefore, resting in Christ enables us to share in Christ's work, compensation and subjugation. We are His Body, His presence, on earth.
This is how creation is completed, in partnership with, whilst walking with, Christ.
o you mean overcoming the temporal consequences of sin or the eternal? Or are you conflating these? Justice has recently become a highly overloaded term so I'd prefer a little more specificity.
