Follow-up - Verse that Explains Need for Sacrifice Made by Jesus Christ for Sinful Humankind - Human Logic Does Not Suffice

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Dec 19, 2008 at 14:06

This is a follow-up to the response this reader made on this topic. But in previously answering, it was done in short form because these things have been traded before, neither side conceding the other's; this reader for his faith and discipleship in Jesus Christ because of His Truth in the Holy Bible, and the belief of sTs that his way is better by whatever means he sees in the Quran. There is no advantage to be gained in furtherance of that discussion, except there must be a correction.

In Item 1, sTs misses the salient feature of the first issue of sin, something so many try to do. He remarks to contradict what this reader mentioned as to the provision the LORD made for their sin, that after they found themselves to be naked, they tried of their own efforts to cover their nakedness. See the verse he alludes to in opposition to the one provided by this reader.

Genesis 3:7) And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

However, in order to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the aprons to cover their sin (this is the same as any person who thinks that mere mortals can do good works in order to obtain favor with Almighty God), we read the following:

Genesis 3:21) Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

It has always been the situation that sinful mankind cannot do away with their own sin, that it requires the sacrifice (the Jewish rites as described in the Torah-replaced with the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ) made according to the Word of the LORD. Isaiah has this to say about mankind's righteousness:

Isaiah 64:6) But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

We have mentioned before that somebody is always trying to use the Holy Bible to prove a human point of logic against the Word of the LORD, usually for the cause of being out of context. As long as there is no spiritual back-up to the use of the Holy Bible, then human logic fails to make a case against the spoken Word of Almighty God, as is suitably demonstrated in the eight point response by sTs to this reader's explanation of scriptural things.

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