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Originally Posted by Hoovie
Wow. Perhaps your soteriology has changed beyond only the "light" doctrine? Or am I reading too much into your final statement?
Fwiw I believe my own pastors would agree with the way you were taught, and possibly extend it to today as well- though not from the pulpit.
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Yes, it has.
I want to add one last thought I gleaned from
Romans 3.
"This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he declares sinners to be right in his sight when they believe in Jesus."
Faith in Jesus Christ pre-dates his birth.
Those who "sinned in times past" are those Old Testament saints who believed in Christ without a revelation of His name. They had faith in Him before He was born.
This extraordinary forward-looking faith justified them in the same way our backward-looking faith does.
Paul's words reveal what we've known, but rarely speak: Jesus is the fulcrum upon which all of history rests. He is truly the same, yesterday, today and forever.
Nothing has ever justified sinful man but faith in Jesus.
What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh precious is the flow, that makes me white as snow
no other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
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