AboutRay McIntyre Expertise All but homework questions. I will answer questions about the Early Church of the Restoration, the LDS and RLDS / Community of Christ as well as differences between them.
Experience Former LDS Elder; former Community of Christ Elder
Question QUESTION: Why aren't you telling people Jesus was the perfect spotless sacrifice required to shed His blood for the washing away of our sins? Old Test. Law required animal sacrifices for the atonement of Israel's sins. Jesus is the fulfillment of that Law. "Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness."
Read Hebrews 9&10; NIV, King James, etc. Not Joseph what's his name's version. Truth is truth. God's Word will stand.
ANSWER: June,
Because not all Christian churches agree with the doctrine of substitutionary atonement.
---------- FOLLOW-UP ----------
QUESTION: Not a question; just a statement of TRUTH...then some churches are writing their own doctrine, like yours.
Answer June,
Not at all. The Bible is quite clear that it is for LOVE of humankind that Jesus becomes human, lives with us and dies. It is not simply that Jesus substitutes for us but that God, having loved us from before the foundation of the world, does for us what all the religious practices could not. God throws out the transactional nature of sacrifices and instead opens wide the gates of heaven in a wedding feast to which we are invited, not because we are worthy, but because God's grace extends invitation to us.
As well you seem to be quite happily assuming that I am LDS. I am not, I am a former LDS elder who is happy to answer questions about the Mormons in a neutral fashion, I have no axe to grind. FYI I am a Priest in the Anglican Church International.
