It’s been out there for about a year, but I just stumbled upon this recently.
If you’ve already seen it, I encourage you to see it again.
If you’ve not seen it, then take the few minutes to watch it.
One thing that stuck out to me (among many things) is that unless our sacrifice is perfect, then the benefits cannot be permanent.
Think about that and read this before watching.
Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry. But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
Heb 9
The whole story of Jesus dying /being sacrificed on a cross for the sins of humanity doesn’t do any good to anyone except those that want guarantees after a lifetime of wrongdoing. Those that accept God and follow the moral code need no sacrifices because God bestows Grace on them.
Hum…and you know this how? Have you not read the Scriptures?
Yes I have read the Scriptures and what I see is that Paul has re-invented the theology of Jesus. If you read the parables you get a very different picture. Also the Gospel of Thomas gives a consistent message to Jesus. So I have to question what Paul, who seemed to have written the lion’s share of the New Testament, was about. It sounds like politics to me and the defense of the Romans. There is too much that justs doesn’t go down well with me.
Um…okay.
BTW: Paul wrote 13 of the 27 NT books, which is hardly a lion’s share.
Okay, granted not the lion’s share but about half anyway. How do you find Paul?