[Continuing our series of email exchanges between Sinaite BAN@S6K and her missionary mentor in the Christian faith, this is the response to BAN@S6K’s email on article #6 of this series. It appears this response merely quotes verses from the New Testament books with the hope that such a reminder would make this Sinaite turn around, turn back to New Testament authority and re-embrace the Christian faith. Since we are all learning from these exchanges, we will continue to post this exchange until one side gives up on the other, or both sides realize it is futile to continue a discourse based on two different views of authoritative scripture claiming divine authorship. Christians have a ‘messianic’ complex, wishing to save the world, nothing wrong with that. When we are convinced that the truth is on our side, we can see nothing else, and we want to share what we know with the rest of the world. Why this website? For the same reason. From the number of visitors who check out this website daily, we are surprised at the reaction. We have thought that surely, nobody would listen to the likes of us.–Admin1.]
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“For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers once purified would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
Therefore when He came into the world, He said: ‘Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, But a body You have prepared Me, in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
Then I said, “Behold I have come – in the volume of the book it it is written of Me- to do your will, O God.’ Previously saying , Sacrifice and offerings, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them (which are offered according to the law), then He said, ‘Behold I have come to do your will , O God.’
He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By
that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting til His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
‘This is the covenant that I will Make with them after these days, says the Lord, I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them, then He adds, ‘Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more .’
Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. Therefore brethren having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together , as is the manner of some, and so much the more as you see the day approaching. For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
For we know Him who said, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, ‘The Lord will judge His people.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
Lovingly,
[Name Witheld]