RE: Goodluck ?
December 18, 2012 at 2:49 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2012 at 2:49 am by Undeceived.)
(December 17, 2012 at 4:53 pm)catfish Wrote: And if we were under the new covenant, you wouldn't need to teach me about God...I assume you're referring to Jeremiah 31:33-34:
"I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts... No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest."
This is a promise of the Holy Spirit, who is a guide of conscience and revealer of truth. Jesus again promises the Holy Spirit in John 14:15-21: “If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
The Holy Spirit came upon all believers in Acts 2.
(December 17, 2012 at 4:53 pm)catfish Wrote: But regardless of that, Yeshua brought the offer of forgiveness while he was alive.Hebrews 7:18-19 describes the Old Covenant: "The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God." Verse 27: "Unlike the other high priests, [Jesus] does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself."
