Comments | broadwaydave: Atonement in the OT

broadwaydave

Atonement in the OT

Jan 24, 2006 23:55

So here's the conundrum. Jonah refused to go to Ninevah, for his own reasons. God punished him for disobedience. Ninevah, in all its wickeddom, turned their lives around, with the king even humiliating himself and his people as a sign of repentance ( Read more... )

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what I think .... grimm_n_giggle January 25 2006, 21:00:00 UTC

I completely see where you're coming from on this one. God, in violating his own just laws, would cease to be just, and would therefore cease to be God. This must be an essential quallity of God, or we must begin to believe that he does not exist- but he does, so moving on ( ... )

anonymous January 25 2006, 21:15:55 UTC

Hey, this is Kara's boyfriend. Very deep stuff, man. I have a couple things I want to point out. For one, since Christ hadn't come yet, the OT sacrifices and expressions of shame provided a vehicle for genuine repentance, a way of making it real to the sinner. However, this of course is easily abusable and falls short of achieving full righteousness. Therefore, Christ had to come. Also, the sacrificial laws were important to both ancient Jews and modern Christians, as they provide an important foreshadowing of the perfect sacrifice to come. Hebrews covers a lot of that and more, particularly the 9th chapter. It really is an amazing portrayal of God's plan to look over the law and some of the prophecies and then compare that to the Gospels and the letter to the Hebrews. The way things piece together has always been a marvel to me.

milos_lover21 January 27 2006, 05:02:33 UTC

um... yeah david, i agree w/ Geoff (I think thats his name).
Sounds like some good logic to me