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To: Hrvatski Noahid
> Sin requires punishment, it needs atonement.<

G-d is merciful and constantly anticipates that those who want to return to Him will repent and correct their ways. When they do, G-d forgives them for their sins and does not punish them for the past.

No denying that God is merciful. If He wasn't we would all die in our sins and be condemned to an eternity separated from Him. But God is also JUST and all holy. He demands atonement for sin. What do you think He meant in Leviticus (the third book of Moses) about blood making atonement? Why did he require it? Do you just ignore that part?

901 posted on 12/04/2017 10:29:47 PM PST by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: boatbums

> What do you think He meant in Leviticus (the third book of Moses) about blood making atonement? Why did he require it? Do you just ignore that part?

That is not how it works. You do not take the Written Torah and give subjective interpretations. The Oral Torah explains how to repent. I cited the actual and practical Torah Law of repentance. I will add that it is permitted for a Gentile to offer sacrifices, meaning to build an altar and offer upon it a kosher animal or bird which he owns as a sacrifice to G-d in any place and at any time. But it is highly recommended that Gentiles in our days not act on the permission from G-d to sacrifice.


902 posted on 12/04/2017 10:47:08 PM PST by Hrvatski Noahid
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To: boatbums

I like to put eternity in perspective this way. Picture Mount Everest. Every 100 trillion eons, a bird flies by Mount Everest, and knocks a grain of sand off the mountain. By the time that bird wittles that mountain down to sea level, eternity will have just begun. Does that put it in perspective?


905 posted on 12/05/2017 2:15:28 AM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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