Jesus is our mediator between us and our God, our Heavenly Father, and I firmly do believe that but I have now come to the understanding that the whole concept of the ransom sacrifice is entirely wrong and is a product of a wrong ideology.
The real truth is, that I believe, is that Jesus died, not to save us all from our sins, but to show his and his Heavenly Father’s great love for us all here on earth.
True we are all in the category as sinners, because not one of us can say that we are free from si.
But we have not inherited sin from our forbears (Adam and Eve) but what we have inherited is the genetic propensity for sin.
So to my way of thinking the term Adamic sin is entirely wrong, because even the scriptures say that we do not pay for the sins of our fathers.
They will answer for their own sins, done at that time period.
Just as we individually will pay for our own sins in this time period.
It is now my understanding that Jesus sacrifice was not to pay for the sins of Adam and Eve and all the generations since them, but to provide a situation of trust in him because of his sacrifice in our behalf and then as a result of our trust in him we put faith in Jesus and his willingness to forgive us for our own individual sins.
We will also forgive ourselves and start to heal because of our faith.
And Jesus does have the divine authority of his Heavenly Father, who is our Father, to forgive our sins if we repent from our sins and turn our lives around to the obeying of Christ’s commandments and the doing of God’s will instead of just doing our own will and fulfilling our own desires.
Also I do believe that the apostle Paul being trained as a Jewish scholar had written these things with the Jewish teachings in mind.
And so as the Jews believed as to sacrifice of animals and the blood sprinkled or poured out upon the alter to have the power to forgive sins, carried on into Christian doctrines and Ideology.
Jesus blood been poured out on our behalf is a symbolic gesture, but this is not what actually forgives us for our sins.
It is our own repentance and the doing of God’s will that will lead to forgiveness for sins and always has been since the beginning of the world.
And so my faith is actually in Jesus himself as to forgiveness for my sins, not the value of his sacrifice.
True, Jesus blood and body sacrifice does not cover Adam’s sin.
(Romans 5:14) Nevertheless, death ruled as king from Adam down to Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression by Adam, who bears a resemblance to him that was to come.
But it covers LIFE, an equality of the life Adam forfeited unrecoverable, Jesus also delivered up sinless – BUT it is still alive, it is transferable to others in life, just as Adam transferred death to all.
(1 Timothy 2:5-6) . . .Christ Jesus, who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all. . .
(1 Corinthians 15:22) . . .For just as in Adam all are dying, so also in the Christ all will be made alive.
When Adam forfeited that life by sin, the curse was eternal, irrevocable death, the penalty: dead and gone. (Gen3:17-18; Rom6-7)
Adam though with Eve, handed that death curse into mankind, the blessing of Genesis 1:27-28, was lost, a death curse was present, in the same full coverage as the blessing would have been over all mankind, into a curse over all mankind, all who came through Adam and Eve. Death “ruled as king”.
The “image of God” was by these first human sinners also lost.
This is the CORE PROBLEM AND ISSUE for which the rest of the bible, and Jesus himself, have come into human existence.
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So Adam did not die immediately, and neither do his offspring under normal circumstances, in fact Adam and others lived hundreds of years.
But eventually, he, and his offspring do die.
The fact is what follows life, that temporary life in Adam, is death forever. Adam can give only so much life, then death is the finality.
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What Jesus sacrificial blood is providing coverage for is human sin IN ADAM’S OFFSPRING, NOT ADAM, our personal sins. Yet those are based in part in that propensity within Adam’s body, handed to other humans, to sin – it has death programmed into it, it dies, no matter what you do, it dies.
Paul said “sin dwells” in Adam’s body, “resides in” Adam’s flesh, it is leavened.
So Jesus blood though is granting forgiveness of our sins:
(Hebrews 9:22) unless blood is poured out no forgiveness takes place.
And to free our conscience from self-condemnation:
(Hebrews 9:14) . . .how much more will the blood of the Christ, who through an everlasting spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works that we may render sacred service to the living God?
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But is that for endless sin? Is that for all to exit to heaven to be made incorruptible instantly? And the rest to burn in hell-fire?
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No, because the issue raised in Eden by humans and Satan is universal AND EARTHLY. That very issue brought about by man to God’s face on earth must be resolved on earth, for that is an earthly blessing in Gen1:27-28, and also man in God’s image is not a trial and error statement by God, as it appears now, so Jehovah’s Name as Almighty Purposer is involved, he will bring mankind into his image, and he will restore the blessing, and that is why the hinge-point prophecy of the bible, the first prophecy ever, Gen:3:15, God instantly pronounced the way he would counteract what had just occurred by man’s sin in Eden, by a righteous “seed”, that would be at enmity with the Satan’s “seed”.
(Genesis 3:15) . . .And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel.”
So the issue of Gen1:27-28, and the statement there in, CANNOT be simply cast aside because Satan and humans think they can overpower God’s will and purpose THIS WILL TAKE PLACE DURING AND AFTER THE 1000 YEARS, progressively to completion God’s will on earth, as in heaven:
(Genesis 1:27-28) And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 Further, God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.”
So Jesus Christ’s sacrifice is an earthly offering to God a complete ransom payment to buy mankind out of death (by life), a perfect human life, a perfect blood and body sacrifice, because Jesus must bypass the Adamic curse LEGALLY, by becoming one himself, yet to God, of course, Jesus is no curse, but the BLESSING promised to Abraham, through his “seed”, which was the continuation of the “seed” mentioned at Gen3:15, so that the “nations of the earth” might also be included in that Abrahamic covenant benefit.
(Genesis 22:15-18) . . .And Jehovah’s angel proceeded to call to Abraham the second time out of the heavens 16 and to say: “‘By myself I do swear,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘that by reason of the fact that you have done this thing and you have not withheld your son, your only one, 17 I shall surely bless you and I shall surely multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the grains of sand that are on the seashore; and your seed will take possession of the gate of his enemies. 18 And by means of your seed all nations of the earth will certainly bless themselves due to the fact that you have listened to my voice.’”
We know Jesus Christ is that “seed”.
THESE PROMISES AND OATHS OF GOD ALMIGHTY CANNOT BE UNDONE, THEY WILL OCCUR IN TIME.
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So Jesus Christ is also called Last Adam (1Cor15:45), because though his blood offered access to heaven by forgiveness of sins, the physical body is also part of that sacrifice, and those going to heaven do not need flesh, they are spirit. Why the body then?
So heaven is not the end of this, but the means to an end, which is the beginning, that by that Kingdom, the blessing will be restored to mankind, by faith in that blood sacrifice, because it will extend for 1000 years, not forever – TO APPLY JESUS CHRIST’S – LAST ADAM’S PERFECT BODY – THE BREAD OUT OF HEAVEN.
You are absolutely correct: The blood cannot cover Adam’s sin, it can cover human sin which was inherited from Adam as propensity and curse, and performed by humans in sin ever since by our own lives and personal sins – generation after generation.
YET…
Jesus Christ’s body must also be applied as part of the sacrifice for the earthling man over 1000 years, upon the faithful earthling man repentant in life purpose, because that Last Adam body, the unleavened “bread” IS THE ONLY THING THAT HAS ACTUAL LIFE POSSIBILITY AND OPPORTUNITY IN IT’S VERY SINLESSNESS, which is offered to humans to attain true, real, everlasting sinless life – by practicing obedience and working towards obedience leads (even from the imperfect state we have to try):
(Hebrews 5:9) . . .he became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those obeying him. . .
Adam’s “bread” cannot be recovered, and Adam’s body is sin laden, it has a propensity for evil, handed down into mankind, as well as the fact, that Adam forfeited the blessing (a curse took it’s place systemic; terminal over all mankind) and the “subjection of the creation” and the “subdue it” of the earth, ADAM HAS NO RIGHT ANY LONGER TO LIFE, OR THAT KINGSHIP over earth and humans as their first earthly father.
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BUT WE HAVE ONE WHO DOES HAVE THE RIGHTS NOW: JESUS CHRIST
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So Jesus will also be called “Eternal Father” (Isa 6:9) and Last Adam because:
1. Jesus has rightfully recovered and has rights to everything Adam lost, God’s image as perfect human being, the blessing to live forever in Paradise Eden, and the rights to the subjection of the creation and the earth to himself. Adam lost all that; Jesus received all that (Rev11:15-18; Ps2:8).
2. Jesus was and had a perfect human life unrightfully robbed from him, received by God as sacrificial payment delivered – a perfect equality with the Adamic life debt – which God can now give to whomsoever wants it by faith and repentance, Jesus perfect everlasting life is available to replace Adam’s limited imperfect sinful dead life to all humans (1Cor15:20).
3. Jesus has fulfilled and validated all the rightful covenants of God: Abrahamic (Gen22), Mosaic, Davidic (1Chron17), and the New Covenant and has by God legally conferred upon himself all the rights and privileges of ALL those covenants, as well as the super-covenant “for a kingdom with my Father” which he is also in reception of the benefits and powers thereof; Luke22:29.
4. Jehovah has appointed and anointed this his Son, to sanctify his name, to fulfill God’s purpose for the vindication of His Rightful Universal and Heavenly Sovereignty – and all these details of that total gathering and unification into Christ, so that God may be all things to everyone – in heaven and earth. (1Cor15:24-28; Eph1)
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So Jesus Christ can allow humans to bypass dead Adam, into eternal Last Adam, by providing a way out of Adam’s eternal death curse, by blood sacrifice thereby extending the time needed of 1000 years, to come into, transition into Last Adam’s perfect physicality, the perfect “bread out of heaven”, so that human beings can live forever in Jesus Christ’s physical perfection (be blessed).
This all was completely possible and rightfully given by God to Jesus the human being, and he has offered that with the blood, also the perfect body to eradicate Adam from the human family entirely, Adam lost that right, and was to be annihilated and he was, and so must every trace of him also be removed from humanity, and the one who has the rights, Jesus Christ, must be mankind’s New now Eternal Father, by the end of that 1000 year allotted transition time.
Thereby death is removed (1Cor15:26; Heb2:14), Satan can be conquered by faithful PERFECT humans at the final temptation of Satan/demons by freewill, not enslaved by Adamic curse, and Satan can also be destroyed and all sinners human and demon who chose “second death”, and “all things are then made new’ Rev21:3-4, sin is removed, perfection is restored, and the Edenic blessing of God, Gen1:27-28, is restored:
(Revelation 22:3) . . .And no more will there be any curse.
