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Teaching on Jesus Becoming Sin [message #9021]

Mon, 09 July 2012 16:41

james
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Registered: April 2008
Location: Birmingham, AL

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I am not raising this issue to open a can of worms or to critize any ministry, my purpose is to, hopefully, get someone to share from their teaching notes or from scripture concerning Jesus being a "sin offering" (as I believe) versus becoming a sinner on the cross on our behalf. We've all heard this taught before and we know of the JDS heresy (and this is probably included in the teachings of those who believe in Jesus being forsaken by The Father and becoming a sinner on the cross and being subject to Satan for 3 days in hell.)

I was watching a minister each morning last week at 5:30 AM who was doing a series of messages on God's Love and I was being edified over the week of watching...until he, while sharing about the Samaritian woman at the well declared that Jesus became an adulterer on her behalf and every other sin known in order for God's wrath to be appeased. He used 2 Corinthians 5:21 as his proof text. "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us.."

My memory of what Bro. Freeman (and many others I'm sure) taught us from the Hebrew and Greek was that the word sin used there in that verse was always translated as 'sin-offering'.
I did a word study and went back to Leviticus to where God instituted the various offerings including the sin offering in chapter 4. Also in Hebrews chapter 9 gives insight to what Jesus did. We're told in verse 14 He was without spot(there are many scriptures that state that He, Jesus, was without spot or blemish, holy, pure, a substitute on our behalf.)

My conviction has been since the time of my salvation that Jesus NEVER sinned or became a sinner (including while on the Cross), and the simple easy reason to remember without a long theologial discussion was that a sinner couldn't pay the penalty or we'd all be able to pay our own debt.

Anyone want to share on this? Is my thinking and convictions right on this very important teaching error(imo)?

“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,”

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