Animal sacrifice was a work that was required for salvation, but doesn't earn salvation.
Maybe I mistakenly led you to believe that I disagree with this ... I don't
Again, maybe I mistakenly led you to believe that I disagree with this ... I don't
Again, maybe I mistakenly led you to believe that I disagree with this ... I don't
Paul was writing to the Church of Corinth, not non-believers. Jesus died for believers.
Those left behind didn't believe.
If they become believers after the tribulation, there is a procedure they must follow: repent and be baptized--The Age of The Kingdom.
It doesn't negate what Jesus did.
Jesus died for the church/believers; then the church is raptured. Those left behind are not 'The Church,'/believers and, as the references I cited indicate, those left behind must follow a different gospel for salvation; just as the world had to do upon Jesus' ascension--switch to Grace instead of Law.
A reader of The Bible can read some of The Bible and understand the Age of The Law. They could also mistakenly think that The Law applies at all times into the future. But The Age of Grace replaced The Law, yet, the scriptures describing The Law are still in The Bible--and can potentially be confusing to readers.
This also applies to the Age of Grace. The Age of Grace will end. That ending does not say/mean that God is no longer graceful.
And even while God is graceful, he has always attached works onto salvation. Doing a work because you are instructed to for possible salvation is not the same as doing a work thinking that it'll get you salvation.
God:
Do this, that, and the other, and my grace may then grant you salvation.
The-work and grace function together, as The Bible teaches.
You've brought up the similarities between the salvation gospels before.
Now, a debate as to how similar the two gospels are is a different debate, one where I haven't entered an assertion. My point is not whether they are similar; my point is that the Age of Grace ("AOG") ends at the rapture, and salvation must come through a different process than that of the AOG.
This makes sense to me given the major nature of the rapture and start of the tribulation. Jesus ascending was also major event, and caused salvation requirements to change.
Both processes require God's approval, or grace, or whatever you want to call it.
Both processes also require some sort of work; whether a blood sacrifice, or a belief in Jesus, or a baptism.
Just as The Law ended, The Age of Grace will end. Once the AOG began, salvation via the gospel of The Law ended. And again, the 'Age of Grace' is not the same as just the word 'grace.' God has always had they ability to extend grace; that is not the same as a set of actions etc. that must be done for salvation--a set of actions labeled, the AOG.
Simply:
- Jesus died for the believers.
- Believers are raptured up.
- Only Non-believers are left.
- So Jesus' blood no longer protects them as The Bible gives new salvation requirements to those people. (See my previous post for cites.)
- And since they are given new requirements, obviously, the prior requirements no longer apply--just as it happened in the transition from Law to Grace.
I don't think this topic is well-settled amongst the experts, so our disagreement is understandable.
Nothing wrong with agreeing to disagree--if all arguments have been presented.
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