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Re: Question About Forgiveness
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Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind
My question is, How did OT believers receive forgiveness of sins? Messianics and Jews have told me that OT believers received forgiveness by repentance since sacrifices were for unintentional sins. I have been told that there were no sacrifices for sins such as murder and adultery. We know that David received forgiveness for adultery by repentance.
My followup question is one that has been posed to me by Jews. If OT believers received forgiveness by repentance, why do Jews need a Messiah to die on the cross and shed his blood?
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You actually showed the answer. Nothing was forgiven in the Old Testament without God having means for forgiveness depend on the yet-future cross of Jesus. That is why we read this:
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, ]for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
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