Said Bob Ryan,
Notice the contradictory facts IN the text of Hebrews that would deny the statement (of GE), “Jesus’ atonement ‘stopped’ – i.e., was perfected – in resurrection from the dead.”
#1. Hebrews 7–8 DOES say Christ STARTED His High Priestly work ONLY AFTER going to heaven.
#2. Hebrews 8 DOES say that Christ WAS NOT functioning in High Priestly roles while on earth. (See vs 4).
Easy to say, impossible to show.
“Hebrews 7–8” nowhere and no how says “Christ STARTED His High Priestly work ONLY AFTER going to heaven”. “Hebrews 8” nowhere and no how says “that Christ WAS NOT functioning in High Priestly roles while on earth (See vs 4)” – it’s all plainly the lying words of your own.
Hebrews 7–8 in fact says right the opposite of what you here maintain it says, and in many ways. In many ways it says right the opposite, in each way pinpointing Jesus’ resurrection as the occasion and time at which He not only ‘started’, but continued and perfected His High Priesthood which according to the order of Milchisedec is without beginning or end.
Jesus’ work of giving Himself the Sacrifice for sin, indicating the ‘start’ of His work in capacity of High Priest Officiating, and Jesus’ work of offering Himself the Perfected Propitiation for sin through resurrection from the dead, indicates the ‘ending’ of Jesus’ work in capacity of High Priest Officiating, ultimately before, “going to heaven”!
8:4, “For if he were on earth, He should not be a priest”, surely confirms just this, in that while He was on earth, He was a priest! The very truth He had been High Priest of God on earth, determined He would not stay on earth after he had done High Priestly work. Jesus completed “all the works of God on the Seventh Day” – Hb.4:4-5 – “all the works” only God, would be able to finish, and therefore High Priest only in the capacity of Divine Omnipotence, would accomplished. The qualification conditional and resultant – “without beginning” as well as “without end” – had been of High Priest before and after “all the works of God” in dying and rising and being exalted and having ascended into the heavens: “This Jesus … just as you see Him taken up into the heavens”. “For the Law (which is from everlasting to everlasting) maketh the Son High Priest, who consecrated High Priest for evermore”, since evermore. (7:28) Nowhere though, like as where “perfected” in High Priestly Office of sacrificing and offering up His life before God a propitiation for sins.
To think of Jesus Christ not being High Priest through all this – what blindness! What folly!
Notice the contradictory facts IN the text of Hebrews that would deny the statement (of GE), “Jesus’ atonement ‘stopped’ – i.e., was perfected – in resurrection from the dead.”
#1. Hebrews 7–8 DOES say Christ STARTED His High Priestly work ONLY AFTER going to heaven.
#2. Hebrews 8 DOES say that Christ WAS NOT functioning in High Priestly roles while on earth. (See vs 4).
Easy to say, impossible to show.
“Hebrews 7–8” nowhere and no how says “Christ STARTED His High Priestly work ONLY AFTER going to heaven”. “Hebrews 8” nowhere and no how says “that Christ WAS NOT functioning in High Priestly roles while on earth (See vs 4)” – it’s all plainly the lying words of your own.
Hebrews 7–8 in fact says right the opposite of what you here maintain it says, and in many ways. In many ways it says right the opposite, in each way pinpointing Jesus’ resurrection as the occasion and time at which He not only ‘started’, but continued and perfected His High Priesthood which according to the order of Milchisedec is without beginning or end.
Jesus’ work of giving Himself the Sacrifice for sin, indicating the ‘start’ of His work in capacity of High Priest Officiating, and Jesus’ work of offering Himself the Perfected Propitiation for sin through resurrection from the dead, indicates the ‘ending’ of Jesus’ work in capacity of High Priest Officiating, ultimately before, “going to heaven”!
8:4, “For if he were on earth, He should not be a priest”, surely confirms just this, in that while He was on earth, He was a priest! The very truth He had been High Priest of God on earth, determined He would not stay on earth after he had done High Priestly work. Jesus completed “all the works of God on the Seventh Day” – Hb.4:4-5 – “all the works” only God, would be able to finish, and therefore High Priest only in the capacity of Divine Omnipotence, would accomplished. The qualification conditional and resultant – “without beginning” as well as “without end” – had been of High Priest before and after “all the works of God” in dying and rising and being exalted and having ascended into the heavens: “This Jesus … just as you see Him taken up into the heavens”. “For the Law (which is from everlasting to everlasting) maketh the Son High Priest, who consecrated High Priest for evermore”, since evermore. (7:28) Nowhere though, like as where “perfected” in High Priestly Office of sacrificing and offering up His life before God a propitiation for sins.
To think of Jesus Christ not being High Priest through all this – what blindness! What folly!