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I think my Hebrews quote answers this.Well, well, well, so Jesus told us to keep the commandments given upon Mount Sinai, in order to enter life. Do you think OT saints entered life the same way?
Not troubling at all. Great verses by the way. It’s your application out of context and not employing the full Biblical revelation of God which concerns me.
Not adding. At the end of the sermon on the mount where Jesus teaches what we are to be like as Kingdom citizens, He qualifies the entire discourse with the following:
Matthew 5: NASB
"Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
There it is. The standard is we live perfect lives to enter His Kingdom.
Other than Jesus who do you know of living or has lived a perfect life?
Yes only Jesus Who sacrificed His perfect life for us.
Isaiah 53 is the prophecy of the suffering servant. Is this not a prophecy of the coming Messiah Jesus Christ. That He would suffer for our sins?
The term Atonement comes from the Day of Atonement where there were sacrifices performed to forgive the sins of Israel and her people (See Leviticus 16). And in the book of Hebrews picking up on this teaches:
Hebrews 9: NASB
11But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; 12and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committedunder the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. 17For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. 18Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. 19For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20saying, “THIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD COMMANDED YOU.”21And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood. 22And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;(NASB)
So basically saying to God forgive me for falling short of your perfection does not cut it with a Holy God. For what basis are you asking for forgiveness and according to the New Covenant what is available to atone for your sins if the Blood of Jesus Christ does not forgive our sins?
The Beloved Apostle explains where we receive forgiveness:
1 John 1: NASB
5This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 7but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.
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