On Truth and Falsity

     The Sin Offering and the Burnt Offering continued

The fact that God could forgive sins and evil by the use of a burnt offering apart from the shedding of blood does not contradict Hebrews 9:22 (KJB). The key word in Hebrews 9:22 is "remission," which means not only to forgive but also to pardon. Only a person still alive in the flesh whose sins and evil has been washed away by the blood of Christ can be pardoned. Hebrews 9:22 refers only to living humans who become saved by God's grace. Living humans confined to the regions of death become saved with a lesser form of salvation because when they repent and believe in Christ the Lamb of God, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings (melt them down so to speak) in order to separate their good and living natures which He created and loves from their sinful and evil natures which He will burn in an eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:11-14 (KJB). The burnt offering symbolizes the fact that God will utterly destroy only sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil in a burning lake of fire so that He can liberate all of His living humans from eternal death and recreate them all to live on His recreated earth. Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; Leviticus 6:14-18; Leviticus 6:8-13 (KJB).

The curse of spiritual death which entered into the inner beings of Adam and Eve, and all of their posterity, when they sinned will never cause the living natures of all humans to ever suffer an eternal spiritual death and eternal separation from God's Love. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). God never cursed Adam and Eve. God cursed only the Devil and the ground that holds the regions of death. Genesis 3:14-19. God also made Eve the "mother of all living," and He told Luke that "He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto Him," and God said "and the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death," meaning spiritual death. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:26 (KJB). Jesus clearly taught that when He effects the general resurrection, all who believe in Him will be restored to life from the regions of death. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5 (KJB). All who believe in Jesus while still alive in the flesh will be made fully alive by His grace. John 11:25-26; John 5:24 (KJB). Christ will restore all humans to life because He will separate all their spiritual deaths from them. I Corinthians 15:20-22 (KJB). God will save all humans alive, especially those who become saved by His grace. They receive a special form of salvation. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). God's Will is that all humans come to repentance and faith, and who can thwart God's Will. Can God's Will ever fail? II Peter 3:9 (KJB). Clearly, from the beginning, God determined that He would save all of His living humans from eternal, spiritual death, and all of the sins and evil that causes it, and He will cast only their separated evil, sins, and spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire.

An exact reading of the Word of God reveals that God will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). To conflate living humans with dead humans is to misread the Word of God. Life and death are opposites. They cannot be conflated. God will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire because He will have already used His fiery wrath against evil to separate their living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths so that He can recreate their living souls and spirits with new bodies to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Revelation 21:5 is especially significant because God promises that "Behold, I make all things new." God has created all things, including all living humans. Revelation 4:11 (KJB). The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this form of salvation. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB).

God killed an animal and shed its blood to make coats for Adam and Eve to cover their sins and nakedness. This was the same as the sin offering that God gave to the Israelites to symbolize all living humans whom God would save by His grace through the shed blood and water that flowed from Christ on the cross. Genesis 3:21; Matthew 26:28; I John 1:9 (KJB).