Sin problem
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Because of the holiness of our God he can not over look our sin.
Because of the holiness of our God he can not over look our sin.
Thus I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their iniquity; I will also put an end to the pride of the arrogant And bring low the lofty pride of the ruthless.
You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have killed and have not spared. You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through. You have made us mere scum and refuse In the midst of the peoples.
According to the Talmud, God opens three books of destiny on Rosh Hashanah. If our deeds are good, he writes our names in the Book of Life. If our deeds are wicked, he writes our names in the Book of Death – but if our deeds fall somewhere in between, they are written in a third book. God suspends judgment on those whose names he writes in this book. If our names are written in it, we have ten days more to change our hearts and lives – but on Yom Kippur our fates are sealed. ***Live the Mitzvah***
having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. And you being dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him, having graciously forgiven us all our transgressions. Having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us which was hostile to us, He also has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
14 ἐξαλείψας τὸ καθʼ ἡμῶν χειρόγραφον ⸋τοῖς δόγμασιν⸌ ὃ ἦν ὑπεναντίον ἡμῖν,* καὶ αὐτὸ ἦρκεν ἐκ τοῦ μέσου προσηλώσας αὐτὸ τῷ σταυρῷ·*
Kurt Aland et al., Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th Edition. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012), Col 2:14.
in Greek we have Certificate of debt (Χειρόγραφον) - cheirographon record of debt† — a written promise to repay a debt.
The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon (The Scope of Christ’s Accomplishments on the Cross (2:8–15))
The verb ἐξαλείφω(exaleiphō) (Wipe away) is the natural one to use in the context, since it denotes the erasure of an entry in a book, and is so used in several of the above contexts (Exod. 32:32–33; Ps. 69:28;
This means that the Record of Wrong is no long held against us.
How this was done is vividly described within the imagery being used. He “took away, removed, destroyed” (BAGD s.v. αἴρω 4) the record of transgression. And he did so “by nailing it to the cross,” another way of saying “by crucifying it” (BAGD s.v. προσηλόω). There may be a play on the practice of attaching a crucified man’s indictment to his cross to indicate to onlookers what his crime was
James D. G. Dunn, The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon:
Anybody who has once been horrified by the dreadfulness of his own sin that nailed Jesus to the cross will no longer be horrified by even the rankest sins of a brother.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christ would have lived, and taught, and preached, and prophesied, and wrought miracles in vain, if he had not crowned all by dying for our sins as our substitute! His death was our life. His death was the payment of our dept to God. Without his death we should have been of all creatures most miserable.
J. C. Ryle
