The Difference Between the PCI of the Merger and the Current Counterfeits

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Originally Posted by Steve Epley

In the OT sins were forgiven yes or no??????????????????

Were they taken away???????????? Paul says no in Heb. 10.

The was NOT remission of sins available in the OT!!!!!!!!!

Only Calvary made remission of sins available. Heb. 9:22, Rom 3:24-25

The Incarnation and Death-Burial-Resurrection made remission of sins available. Jn. 1:29, Rom. 4:25

Remission of sins in the NT was preached in Jesus Name beginning at Jerusalem the command Luke 24:47 the fulfillment Acts 2:38!

Remission clears the record of the sins forgiven.

Not sound theology Elder ... sorry. It's a leap in verbal gymnastics to try to make these two synonyms, forgiveness and remission, to be distinct.

Most Oneness scholars are not in agreement with on you on this issue, including Daniel Seagraves, CLC President who wrote in a 1988 symposium:

A study of the Greek text would indicate that "forgiveness" and "remission" are synonyms, since in the King James Version both words are translated from the same Greek word, aphesis.3

He also said "Does the assertion that, on the one hand, forgiveness is obtained by repentance alone and, on the other hand, remission of sins is obtained by baptism in water by immersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ present a contradiction in the Articles of Faith of the U.P.C.I.?

Should there be an examination of the somewhat popular teaching that sins are forgiven at repentance but are not remitted until water baptism?"

If I were debating on your side ... I would get off this strand of logic ... it's faulty ... and unscriptural ... to the other side it seems like string theology used to defend your view .... you're better off beating the OBEDIENCE drum than to not rightly dividing the Word.