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  • From: "Bill Ross" <wross AT farmerstel.com>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Paul's "dying for us" language
  • Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:12:22 -0600


{Jeff}
[snip]
If this is so, then perhaps we should consider it the case that in using
such formulae Paul was NOT (primarily, anyway) talking about how gracious
God is towards "sinners", or how loving Jesus was, so much as he [Paul] is
specifically engaged in a dialogue with, and an attempted refutation of, the
claims of the resistance movement regarding where redeeming faithfulness was
exemplified, and that he was doing this by taking up the movement's language
and challenging not so much its ideas that Israel needed redemption as its
claims concerning how that redemption is to be brought about. [snip]

{Bill}
Jesus' death is consistently related to the forgiveness of sins,
justification and reckoning as righteous:

Romans 3:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,
to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be
just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

The nation of Israel's hope for redemption is addressed specifically by Paul
in Romans 9-11:

Romans 11:
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is
happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out
of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.





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