From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 14:04:05 EDT
In a message dated 10/7/03 9:22:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time, gmurphy@raex.com
writes:
> In other words, for those in the Pentateuch paradigm, atonement is a
> payment; for everyone else, atonement is God's supreme demonstration
> of his commitment to us.
>
You can call it what you like, a payment, or an atonement. It is the same
in the OT and the NT. For crying out loud, it's the same in the vedic hymns
and in Zen Buddhism but only one religious figure set out to demonstrate how
it was done in the face of the corrupt tripartite sacrifical system, and that
was Jesus of Nazareth.
God withdrew from himself to free us and we withdraw from our ''selves'' to
freely do his will in return. That's the payback, the atonement.
rich faussette
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