"They received the Word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore many believed."--Acts 17:11 |
The Berean Christadelphians |
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The Nature and Sacrifice of Christ
Christadelphian Statement of Faith, Clause 12 "That for delivering this message, he was put to death by the Jews and Romans who were, however, but instruments in the hands of God, for the doing of that which He had determined before to be done--namely, the condemnation of sin in the flesh, through the offering of the body of Jesus once for all, as a propitiation to declare the righteousness of God, as a basis for the remission of sins. All who approach God through this crucified, but risen, representative of Adam's disobedient race, are forgiven. Therefore, by a figure, his blood cleanseth from sin. Elpis Israel by John Thomas "Sin, I say, is a synonym for human nature. Hence, the flesh is invariably regarded as unclean. It is therefore written, "How can he be clean who is born of a woman?" "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one." "What is man that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman that he should be righteous? Behold, God putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?" This view of sin in the flesh is enlightening in the things concerning Jesus. The apostle says, "God made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin"; and this he explains in another place by saying, that "He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh" in the offering of his body once. Sin could not have been condemned in the body of Jesus, if it had not existed there. The Purifying of the Heavenlies, by G. V. GrowcottThe Blood of Christ by Robert RobertsThe Slain Lamb by Robert RobertsThe Tree of Life by John ThomasThe Day of Atonement by John ThomasMediatorship by John ThomasCould Christ Sin? by Robert Robertsby Robert Roberts |
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