If I understand Macarthur right, he claims that the act of Christ dying is what saves, not the actual blood of Christ.
"You have to stop short of saying that we are saved by the blood of Jesus, in the sense that there is some efficacy in the fluid that poured out of His body."
Blood isn't literal, just a symbol...
Jesus didn't die from bleeding, He died from asphyxiation...
Am I hearing this right?
I can't agree.
Now, I don't believe there are vials of blood in heaven being poured out constantly on the Mercy Seat. I do believe it was the literal blood of Jesus, poured out at Calvary, and sprinkled on the Mercy Seat once and for all (
Heb 9&12) which saves us.
It wasn't the simple act of killing a lamb which saved the Israelites during the Passover. It was the blood. God said "when I see the blood, I will pass over you." He didn't say "when I see you killed a lamb." It was the literal fluid they applied to the doorposts.
And it's the literal blood of Christ which saves us.
"without the shedding of blood is no remission."
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