@Peterlag
Continued….You IGNORING the Content of the Old Testament…
The OT is FULL of Laws, Statutes,
PRECEPTS, SECRETS, EXAMPLES
When You IGNORE the OT content, YOU FAIL (by, through, of, in) the NT…TO KNOW IF:
Laws, are ongoing or fulfilled /obsolete
Statutes, are ongoing or fulfilled /obsolete
Precepts, are ongoing or obsolete
Secrets, are knowledge Revealed
Examples, resulting WITH or WITHOUT God.
Scripture…IS GODS APPROVED “KNOWLEDGE”, in written form, FOR the “EXPRESS Benefit” Of man-KIND to be EXPOSED TO…via. Hearing and Reading.
RARELY DOES Scripture point blank Give. Gods “UNDERSTANDING” In the Written Word of God.
(Gods UNDERSTANDING of His OWN KNOWLEDGE, IS DIRECTLY ( Given FROM God TO the Individual…SUPERNATURALLY…Gods Spirit to the mans spirit).
Your DEMANDS…(IGNORE the Old Testament) is ludicrous, elementary, juvenile, unworthy to conclude Gods Truth.
Your DEMAND… You require SCRIPTURE be Written “word for word”, as a man “expresses his Understanding.”
I said…”Only Gods Forgives SIN”…
THAT IS MY CONCLUSION…FROM “MY” study of Scripture…
….OT men OF ISRAEL, Gods People…WHO one on one conversed with God, WHO recognized and stated they sinned Against God and ONLY God forgives SIN…
…NT men OF ISRAEL, Gods People, WHO ALSO recognized and STATED, God ONLY forgives SIN…(as they were challenging JESUS for forgiving a persons SIN.)
IN Jesus’ FEW short YEARS ON EARTH…
Gods PEOPLE “ISRAEL”, were being Introduced to Gods PROMISED MESSIAH…and HE was NOT “what the Jewish People Expected”…(a nobody man from Nazareth, no wealth, no kingdom, no army)…YES,
Absolutely The TRIBESMEN were Skeptical.
At the VERY same time ISRAEL was being introduced to Gods Christ Messiah…the Gentiles were being introduced to …
The INVISIBLE Jewish God…and His VISIBLE Christ Messiah.
IT IS ONLY YOUR dilemma, and option of Freewill, to Decide, Choose your OWN Belief….ISRAEL…Gods People have a 4,000 year head-start, of particular things that applied to them, that had nothing to do with Gentiles.
Yes …A man CAN SIN Against God…IS a man not Believing. IN God.
Yes….A man CAN ALSO Encourage others to NOT believe…also is AGAINST God.
Yes….Oneself Preaching TO NOT BELIEVE IN God, is a SIN Against God.
Yes…SIN IS AGAINST God.
Yes…ONLY God FORGIVES SIN.
Yes…A man CAN SIN AGAINST Jesus.
Yes…SIN Against God, Against JESUS…IS a man NOT Believing IN God, not believing IN Jesus.
* IT IS ONLY…The Lord God Almighty WHO “IS” Divine…ie SINLESS.
* IT is ONLY…a man AGAINST, the Lord God Almighty…THAT REQUIRES FORGIVENESS…for the man to BECOME “MADE” Quickened, born again, and thus have a SECURItY, to FOREVeR BE IwTH the Lord God Almighby.
* THAT SIN…and THAT FORGIVENESS….and THAT RECONCILIATION…IS ONLY Applicable REGARDING THE OFFERING and WORKS OF THEE ONE SINLESS DIVINE…
Lord God Almighty.
If you think a Lowly man, whose own power ranks Lower that the Created powerful Angels,who themselves HAVE NO authority TO forgive SIN Against God…
You have neither studied Scripture or failed miserably to understand the gravity of the difference between OFFENSES of man AGAINST GOD…and. OFFENSES of men against men….THEY ARE NOT THE SAME!
Men are NOT taught men are Divine, HOLY, SINLESS..
Men are NOT taught to BELIEVE IN men.
Men are NOT taught man is a mans Savior.
Men are taught tO “FORGIVE”…
TRESPASSES and DEBTS…
Men are NOT God…
GOD IS ONE…Lord God Almighty.
Leave the Forgiveness of SIN where it belongs…WITH GOD!