RE: Biblical Inerrancy - mandatory to be Christian?
March 20, 2013 at 6:13 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2013 at 6:14 am by catfish.)
(March 20, 2013 at 5:58 am)Tonus Wrote: Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
Jesus forgave a man his sins without requiring a sacrifice. He did so by simple acclamation. When the priests who saw this questioned his authority to do so, he proved it by healing the man's paralysis.
Did Jesus sin, by not observing protocol? Keep in mind that the concept of expiatory sacrifice was so binding that god did not release Jesus from giving his own life, even though Jesus prayed to god to find another way. If a sacrifice wasn't necessary, Jesus self-sacrifice is meaningless. If a sacrifice was necessary, Jesus committed a sin by ignoring protocol... which makes his self-sacrifice meaningless, since he would not have been a perfect man anymore.
"Protocol" does not dictate "sin" as Jesus pointed out on several occasions. So if sacrifice was necessary, he could have only violated man-made laws.
