And yet the fact remains that Jesus came back from the dead and is alive forevermore. He lives inside of me, guides me, loves on me, blesses me and chastises me sometimes. I never experienced anything like this before getting born again. THESE ARE FACTS that PROVE I am forgiven. Once God reveals himself, no one can ever take that away....no elder, no relative, no ruler - NO ONE.
I have a down-loadable pdf on my website that addresses this very issue. - JUDGMENT
Excerpt:
God’s 1st Mediator
God's response to the problem of evil is to leave
man's ability to choose intact but at the same time
punish wrong moral choices (Isaiah 26:21). God has
done this by sometimes allowing the punishment of
morally innocent (animals) in place of the guilty
one, and at other times by punishing the sinner
himself.
…without shedding of blood is no remission. -
Hebrews 9: 22
Under the old Law Covenant mediated by Moses, a
provision was made whereby a person's sins could
be transferred onto a sinless animal, first by the
priest and then by the sinner by laying their hands on
its head:
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of
the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities
of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions
in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the
goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit
man into the wilderness: - Levet:16:21
And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the
heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one
for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering,
unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the
Levites. - Numbers 8:12
Then, the animal was slaughtered in place of the
sinner. The sentence of death was still carried out
according to the LAW. However, this process of
animal substitution had to be repeated because the
sinless animal, while suffering the death sentence for
the guilty person, could not thereafter impart
PERFECT LIFE to the sinner, making future sin
inevitable.
