Featured The Biblical Atonement (continued 3)

Let's not ignore Hebrews 9 and 10.

 

There are number of sacrifices illuminating the aspects of Christ's one offering. We can speak of the guilt or trespass offerings where God's demand for repayment for trespass against Him is satisfied. This isn't theory. This is written.

But you want to speak of the passover lamb? Okay. Why was it killed?

 

Labels are not Scripture. You're avoiding the question.

There you go. Now, let's talk about the Sin Offering, not the Passover. What is the Law of the Sin Offering?

 

This is avoiding the the Law of the Offerings.

 

Whew. A lot of presumption in that post. You're basically saying that the sins didn't have to be paid for. They're merely overlooked. Let's slow down and go by the word of God as you insisted.

The Law of the Sin Offering is in Leviticus 4. The Burnt, Meat and Peace Offerings prescribed in the previous chapters were not for sin. They were for devotion. And even in devotion we need a substitute. Christ, our righteousness, is seen in those.

In the Sin and Trespass Offerings, we see Christ our sin. The Sin Offering was for sin in general: If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments, vs 2. In contrast, the Trespass offerings prescribed in the following chapters were for specific acts of sin: if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, 5:1; if a soul touch any unclean thing, 5:2; if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, 5:4; If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour, 6:2 etc.

So the Sin Offering: when the penitent discovers that he is a sinner, he is commanded to bring an offering. There are varieties of offering prescribed depending upon the status and available resources of the penitent. There is instruction even in the varieties, but let's talk about the one for the common people, 4:27. A kid of the goats or a lamb, vs 32.

What was the offering for? The sin which the penitent sinned, vs 28. So, there was a debt incurred by the sin. This debt is accounted for in the Trespass offerings, but here, it is just acknowledged that there is a debt.

The penitent then lays his hand upon the head of the sin offering. What does that signify? The transfer of the sin of the penitent to the victim.

Why is this necessary? Otherwise, the penitent bears his own sin and can expect nothing from God but judgment and fiery indignation.

The lamb is then slain in the place of the burnt offering, but it is not burned on the altar. The fat is burned on the altar, showing that the victim itself was pleasing to YHWH, but the body, which is bearing the sins of the penitent, is taken outside the camp, banished from God's abode, and burned on the ground with its dung, its uncleanness.

The lamb took the judgment and fiery indignation reserved for the penitent.

 

On the other side of the coin, sins have to be punished, or justice is not served.

The tresspass offering shows that God demands repayment for trespass against Him. Shall we go there too?

Really? Someone forgot to tell Peter, 1 Peter 3:18.

Besides, the entire sacrificial system is just that, the sinner bringing a spotless substitute for his sin.

Wondering how long the administration is going to tolerate the denial of Baptist faith, let alone the work of Christ, in the moderator pool.

 

God sending His Son in Love as the Divine substitute for the elect is the core of the gospel.....not a pagan concept...but God's design.

 

You need to explain the violence done unto the sacrifice, and the reason for its burning and exclusion from the altar.

Labels aren't Scripture. What does it mean to suffer for sins? Note: I didn't ask what it means to suffer for righteousness' sake. I asked, what does it mean to suffer for sins? The Just suffered for sins for the unjust.

 

The Trespass offering.

In the Trespass offering we see repayment and restitution for the damages caused by sin. Not a mere forebearance, but a demand for payment, a making of amends, i.e. appeasement, without which, there is no forgiveness.

Leviticus 5:15-16 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering: And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
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The fifth part is a double tithe. The first tithe, the righteous requirement of the law, the second tithe, the debt incurred by sin.

Not only for the harm done unto the holy things of YHWH, but also unto the things of the penitent's neighbor; that is, to man.

Leviticus 6:5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
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Here it is revealed that in Christ's one offering, amends are made for the harm resulting from sin. To put it another way, the wages of sin are paid, the punitive damages are paid, and God's wrath, the just and righteous response to sin, is appeased.

Our sin, and its debt to God and to man, are paid for in the one offering of Christ.