Originally posted by LemonJello
Thanks for the clarification. So you think that justice necessitates payment for our transgressions.
And you think that the blood sacrifice of an innocent can cash in for us in that respect and make the payment for us.
So, you think the suffering and "blood sacrifice" of an innocent lends itself to cosmic justice. Same thing holds: I think that is a bizarre take on justice.
You should not think that there are many many "blood sacrifices" in the world. There is only ONE sacrifice that counts for all eternity.
Do not think "O, Jesus was a blood sacrifice among many many thousands of such blood sacrifices. Those practiced by the Aztecs, those practiced by Israel, those done by the other nations. Jesus is just one of many thousands of such blood scrifices."
You should not consider this way because in God's eyes there is only ONE such event, just one.
Some may argue that there were many goats and lambs and bulls on the altar in the Old Testament. Some may argue that this act was repeated by hundreds of other nations.
Actually, there is what God instructed Abel to do (probably through learning from his parents) and it was passed down and embellished by cultures all over the globe. What the Aztecs did I am pretty sure was in the collective memory of mankind going back to Cain and Abel.
There was the typology that Yahweh instructed the Isrealites to perform. But actually there is only ONE propitiatory offering for the sins of all human beings. That is the redemptive death of Christ on Calvary.
Just one LemonJello. Just one death that matters.
In the remaining of this short post on a very weighty subject I would only briefly remark:
The forgiven sinner is a paid for sinner. Before God the redeemed from His Law are not forgiven debtors. They are instead PAID UP debtors who have been forgiven.
God estblished this not any human imagination. His way to forgive us is to cause us to be PAID UP in the dept that was owed and forgiven.
I say again, before God the redeemed are not forgiven debters, but paid up debtors.
The price for the paying up is only known to God. Its value, its preciousness, its costliness can only be comprehended by God. We cannot know how much it meant to God. We do know that a paying up has been accomplished in the blood of the Son of God which is effective enough to cover all the sins of all mankind throughout all time.
This procedure was established by God. Perhaps He could have chosen some other way. He did not. He neither consulted with me or with you to be advized. God established a plan that matches His dignity, His righteous nature, His glory.
We should just believe and be submitted to Him in this. God says that in the cross of Jesus and in the shedding of His blood the Divine Judgment against sins has been exhausted for whoever would receive the Son of God.