From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 18:44:22 EDT
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From: RFaussette@aol.com
To: sheila-wilson@sbcglobal.net ; douglas.hayworth@perbio.com ; asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Original Sin/Atonement
In a message dated 10/7/03 5:14:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sheila-wilson@sbcglobal.net writes:
The death of Christ is not an allegory. His death may represent many different aspects of the truth and have allegorical implications but His death was real. If we walk away from the literalism of His death, we are walking away from Him.
I agree. The allegories are in genesis. His self-sacrifice was real. The Biblical allegories only show how the self-sacrifice originated.
rich faussette
Jay Willingham wrote:
I agree as well.
The fact that I believe things happened as stated in Genesis does not detract for me from the multi-level allegorical content of God's word. It simply points out how dimly we understand the big picture from God's perspective.
The entire Old Testament foreshadows Christ with many "types".
Praise God that for making salvation so simple a child can understand it and be comfortable with the hope that faith in the love that was expressed in the birth, life, death and resurrection to life of Jesus Christ.
Jay Willingham
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