To Lily M,
(Continuation of my last post, on this thread)
Then you may ask, how Christians’ sins are going to be forgiven by God if Jesus did not die on the cross? I would say, there is no need for Jesus to die for your sins, in the first place because…
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Only the father, since he violated rights, and robbed, and did what was not good among his people, shall in truth die for his sins.
You ask: “Why is not the son charged with the guilt of his father?”
Because the son has done what is right and just, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live**.
Only the one who sins shall die. The son shall not be charged with the guilt of his father, nor shall the father be charged with the guilt of his son. The virtuous man’s virtue shall be his own, as the wicked man’s wickedness shall be his own .
But if the wicked man turns away from all the sins he committed, if he keeps all my statutes and does what is right and just, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
None of the crimes he committed shall be remembered against him; he shall live because of the virtue he has practiced.
Do I indeed derive any pleasure from the death of the wicked? says the Lord GOD. Do I not rather rejoice when he turns from his evil way that he may live?
And if the virtuous man turns from the path of virtue to do evil, the same kind of abominable things that the wicked man does, can he do this and still live? None of his virtuous deeds shall be remembered, because he has broken faith and committed sin; because of this, he shall die.
You say, “The LORD’S way is not fair!”
Hear now, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair?
When a virtuous man turns away from virtue to commit iniquity, and dies, it is because of the iniquity he committed that he must die.
But if a wicked man, turning from the wickedness he has committed, does what is right and just, he shall preserve his life;
since he has turned away from all the sins which he committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
----Ezekiel 18:18-28
You all Christians should inscribe these above verses in PURE GOLD and hang in your Churches instead of idols of imaginary Jesus/Mary. These verses shoud be foundation of your faith as Jesus came to restore the Commandments of God and his mission was limited to House of Israel only. What is said in these verses is the same key for Salvation and Eternal life, Jesus reminded you in:
Matthew 19:16-1
And behold one came and said to him: Good master, what good shall I do that I may have life everlasting? Who said to him: Why asketh thou me concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Mark 10-17-19
And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man running up and kneeling before him, asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting? And Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? None is good but one, that is God. Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, bear not false witness, do no fraud, honour thy father and mother.
Matthew 5:20
** I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses** that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven
I wonder if those scribes abd Pharisees were indeed had faith in Jesus’ crucifixion as a key for their entry into the kingdom of heaven. Jesus did not say unless you believe in my future crucifixion when I will die on the cross because of the betrayal of my own selected disceiple Judas, there will be no salvation for you. Why? because there was no such “plan” for dying in the first place. If you ask then why Jewish court/Romans sentenced him? The answer is simple, Jews used to kill their own Prophets and they did not have to claim the divinity in order to be killed. Simply calling them to follow the Divine Law in it’s entirety is good enough crime to get killed. And if someone uses the following words on top of that:
"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;…"
"Ye hypocrites!.."
"Ye wicked and adulterous generation!.."
"Ye whited sepulchers!.."
**“Ye generation of vipers!..” **
then it is enough for those Jews to make a case against him and kill him by any means they feel necessary. So, in the case of Jesus whether they did succeed in crucify him? No. They are guilty of attempted murder but not for murder because whoever was on the cross, was not Jesus.