The Scriptures that support my beliefs regarding:
ATONEMENT = ALL SINs -- ALL TIMES Its Affect = Removed the penalty for sin from man!
SALVATION = ENABLED BY ATONEMENT, BUT THROUGH FAITH ALONE, The gift of God to man!
FAITH = REQUIRED OF MAN in order to receive SALVATION. If reguired of man, it is not given to man!
[Heb 7:27] he has no need to offer sacrifices every day, as the high priests do, first for their own sins and only then for those of the people; this he did once and for all by offering himself.
[Heb 9:14] How much more will the blood of Christ, who offered himself, blameless as he was, to God through the eternal Spirit, purify our conscience from dead actions so that we can worship the living God.
Christ seals the new covenant with his blood
[Heb 9:15-28] This (verses 1-14) makes him the mediator of a new covenant, so that, now that a death has occurred to redeem the sins committed under an earlier covenant, those who have been called to an eternal inheritance may receive the promise. Now wherever a will is in question, the death of the testator must be established; a testament comes into effect only after a death, since it has no force while the testator is still alive. That is why even the earlier covenant was inaugurated with blood, and why, after Moses had promulgated all the commandments of the Law to the people, he took the calves' blood, the goats' blood and some water, and with these he sprinkled the book itself and all the people, using scarlet wool and hyssop; saying as he did so: This is the blood of the covenant that God has made with you. And he sprinkled both the tent and all the liturgical vessels with blood in the same way.
In fact, according to the Law, practically every purification takes place by means of blood; and if there is no shedding of blood, there is no remission. Only the copies of heavenly things are purified in this way; the heavenly things themselves have to be purified by a higher sort of sacrifice than this.
It is not as though Christ had entered a man-made sanctuary which was merely a model of the real one; he entered heaven itself, so that he now appears in the presence of God on our behalf.
And he does not have to offer himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the sanctuary year after year with the blood that is not his own, or else he would have had to suffer over and over again since the world began. As it is, he has made his appearance once and for all, at the end of the last age, to do away with sin by sacrificing himself.
Since human beings die only once, after which comes judgement, so Christ too, having offered himself only once to bear the sin of many, will manifest himself a second time, sin being no more, to those who are waiting for him, to bring them salvation.
SUMMARY: CHRIST'S SACRIFICE SUPERIOR TO THE SACRIFICES OF THE MOSAIC LAW
The old sacrifices ineffective
[Heb 10:9,10] and then he says: Here I am! I am coming to do your will. He is abolishing the first sort to establish the second. And this will was for us to be made holy by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ made once and for all.
The Law did not cancel the promise
[1 Tim 2:6,7] who offered himself as a ransom for all. This was the witness given at the appointed time, of which I was appointed herald and apostle and I am telling the truth and no lie-a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth.
[Gal 3:13,14] Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law (death for sin) by being cursed for our sake since scripture says: Anyone hanged is accursed, so that the blessing of Abraham might (FAITH) come to the gentiles in Christ Jesus, and so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
The efficacy of Christ's sacrifice
[1 Pet 3:18-21] Christ himself died once and for all for sins, the upright for the sake of the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life, and, in the spirit, he went to preach to the spirits in prison. They refused to believe long ago, while God patiently waited to receive them, in Noah's time when the ark was being built. In it only a few, that is eight souls, were saved through water. It is the baptism corresponding to this water which saves you now-not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience given to God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
[Rev 5:9,10] They sang a new hymn: You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, because you were sacrificed, and with your blood you bought people for God of every race, language, people and nation and made them a line of kings and priests for God, to rule the world.
