Romans part 14
“just and justifier”
- His
a. Guilt can be transferred from one person to another. In other words one person can pay another’s debt. That is called “substitution”
b. A persons guilt can only be transferred to another person. The animal sacrifices in the Old Testament were only meant as a teaching tool and a focus of faith, not a moral equivalent.
c. That person has to be perfect or sinless, and no one is.
d. That person has to be willing. It needs to be a freely chosen substitution.
e. The moral value of the payment has to exceed the moral value of the sin. In other words, how could the death of one person atone for the sins of the whole world?
f. So in order to pay for the sins of the entire world, God would have to die.
g. For God to die, He would first have to become a mortal man.
h. To be perfect and sinless He would have to have been tempted and He would have to be offered an escape.
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