But you
didn't quote saying that Jesus
his blood was poured out for the forgiveness of sin. Speak with any tenth grade English teacher. Your claim cannot be justified by the words, as the words are written.
You need to read again. The Wine is poured out INTO those who have had their sins forgiven.
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
(Acts 2:38 KJV)
The gift of the Holy Ghost described in Acts 2 is the New Wine of the covenant of Jesus.
Do you know you're a nasty piece of work? Just nasty. And you know why? By using the word "juice." You did that, and that's a nasty thing to say. And you should repent before God for saying "Holy Spirit Juice." That you would belittle and even ridicule the sanctity of the Holy Spirit by adding the word juice. That's a horrible thing to say, just terrible, and if you have no shame about saying such a thing, you are not one of His.
I didn't "redefine" the wine. Jesus taught about the New Wine, and the second chapter of Acts describes what happens when believers (real ones) are filled with the New Wine of the Spirit. In communion, Jesus said that the blood of his covenant was THIS... the Wine that is in the cup - the Wine - poured-out INTO many when they repent.
You're just pissed that you have a mutilated translation, thinking you can make sense of it. If you want 2,000 years of Christian doctrine, then you'd better join the Greek Orthodox Church or the Church of the East (started by the Apostle Thomas) but don't go claiming to others that you understand and preach the Gospel of Jesus. Because you don't. And you don't know squat about Gnostic Theology either, because NOTHING can be found in Gnostic teaching that the Wine of Communion represents the Holy Spirit. You just look like an idiot when you spout of unfounded ideas.
And to dismiss a valid translation concern as a game? You think translation is a game? You have no clue. What you do have is a malignant Bible that is missing the word INTO. And you're upset because you're stumped since you don't know enough to even provide a rational rebuttal. I'm used to it. Christians having emotional meltdowns because they don't know any better. It's a dang shame.
I am stunned that you preach a religion that has a god who demands to be given a human blood sacrifice as an atonement offering.
So where did Jesus
Himself ever say that HE would be your atoning sacrifice as the Lamb of God ????
Because I don't think you know the Teachings of Jesus very well. But I might be wrong, so... put up... answer the question. (Bet you can't.)
An arrogant word game is spewing out terms like "Gnostic nonsense" and "pseudo-Greek Flexing." A person resorts to such embittered blather when they deep down know that they're wrong. But from what I can tell at this point, your Faith is nothing different than the Aztecs or Pagan Romans who offer up a human blood sacrifice as an atonement to God.
Your Gospel, sure. Because your Gospel is not the Gospel that Jesus taught. What was the Way that Jesus taught that one's sins would be forgiven? I don't think you know. I don't think you can post a concise explanation about what
JESUS taught with regards to the forgiveness of sin. (I can.)
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is hardly metaphor. It's real, and it comes with real evidence.
For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. ... But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
(Acts 1:5, 8 KJV)
So what power do YOU have? I mean seriously. Millions of people claim to be baptized with the Holy Ghost and yet have Nothing - NO power - at all. And I don't think you do either.
And here lies the evil tricks of the true heretic. To accuse someone of taking a clear and concise statement "out of context." And then adding in words to scripture to paint a context that cannot be found in the text. Jeremiah 7:22 says absolutely nothing about "
hypocritical ritualism." You added in those words. And that's true evil.
The verse means EXACTLY what it says:
For in the day that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
(Jeremiah 7:22 NRSV)
Plain as day, no explanation or spin needed. God never spoke to the Hebrews nor did God ever give any command to the Hebrews concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
For in the day that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
(Jeremiah 7:22 NRSV)
Can you be honest and admit that you never even read this verse before? I don't think you can be honest. And the evil I see is you trying to explain away what the Prophet Jeremiah clearly proclaimed with some nonsense about a rebuke of
hypocritical ritualism.
You should read this verse over and over, ten or twenty times a day for a month until the truth of the ACTUAL words sinks into your head, instead of inventing excuses as to why it cannot mean what it says.
GOC - it says what it says, In Hebrew, in Greek, and in English as best put by the NRSV -
For in the day that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
(Jeremiah 7:22 NRSV)
For I spoke not to your fathers, and commanded them not in the day wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole-burnt-offerings and sacrifice:
(Jeremiah 7:22 Brenton- LXX)
But I see from your replies that you are one of those persons imprisoned in your religious traditions and cannot read scripture as it is written.
May God free you to read the words as written,
Rhema