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Originally Posted by The-Bucket
The question is: Why was it necessary for God to send Jesus (aka Himself) to save those who hated Him by killing Him (in addition to those who truly loved Him)? Couldn't he have just come above the mass of both believers and non-believers, made a thundering roar and announced "I have forgiven your sins and you can come into Heaven, but keep sinning and you will go into the Lake of Fire!" ?
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No, sin requires atonement, specifically blood. God loves the smell of blood.
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Leviticus 17:11 (1611 King James Bible)
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I haue giuen it to you vpon the Altar, to make an atonement for your soules: for it is the blood, that maketh an atonement for the soule.
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Hebrews 9:22 (1611 King James Bible)
And almost all things are by the Law purged with blood: and without shedding of blood is no remission.
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Covering all sin for all time required very special blood...Holy blood.
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Hebrews 9:12 (1611 King James Bible)
Neither by the blood of Goats and Calues: but by his owne blood hee entred in once into the Holy place, hauing obtained eternall redemption for vs.
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You see, Jesus temporarily committed suicide so that His blood could cleanse us of the sin we inherited, and thus we would no longer be a horrible abomination unto God.
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Isaiah 64:6 (1611 King James Bible)
But we are al as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy ragges, and we all doe fade as a leafe, and our iniquities like the wind haue taken vs away.
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I Kings 7:23
And he made a moulten Sea, ten cubites from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, & his height was fiue cubits: and a line of thirtie cubites did compasse it round about.
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