Ben Masada
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Here’s my outline:
Bible Fact #1: The KJV mistranslates G2643 in Ro.5:11 as “atonement”.
Bible Fact #2: Scripture associates Jesus’ DEATH with RECONCILIATION (not, atonement).
Bible Fact #3: Scripture associates Jesus’ SACRIFICE with REDEMPTION (not, atonement).
Bible Fact #4: Scripture says WE were “BOUGHT” (not, “our SINS were PAID”).
Bible Fact #5: Translators & Commentators misuse “atonement”, “propitiation” & “expiation” in NT.
The Day of Atonement aka Yom Kippur
The other day I was served with 5 Biblical Christian facts as you can see above, about the Day of Atonement aka Yom Kippur. Then I felt under the spiritual responsibility to share with him a word or two about Yom Kippur.
The Atonement is strictly a notion from the Tanach. Nothing to do with the NT. The Yom Kippur day aka the day of Atonement. Every year our Fathers used to celebrate the Yom Kippor day as a prophecy for the day of Atonement. Two goats were chosen and, by lot, one would be for the Lord and the other would be for Azazel aka the Scapegoat. The one chosen by lot for the Lord would remain to be sacrificed as a sin offering as needed to keep the world going. The other whose lot was for the Scapegoat, it would be sent into the wilderness to Azazel. (Leviticus 16:9,10)
The goat which would remain in Jerusalem was Judah. The Scapegoat was Israel aka Ephraim, the Ten Tribes. Now, to understand how Yom Kippur was performed, you must read Psalm 78:67-70. The fate of the Scapegoat aka Israel the Ten Tribes was fulfilled in 721 when Israel was conquered by Assyria and taken eastward through the desert and got lost forever. That's when the Lord rejected the Tabernacle of Joseph and confirmed Judah to remain as a People before the Lord forever as the only Kingdom aka the Remnant of the People for the Lord. (Ezekiel 37:22)
Yom Kippur had reached fulfillment. Now, why we still observe Yom Kippur every year as usual? Yes, as usual but with a characteristic change; no longer as a prophecy because the prophecy had been fulfilled already but "in memory" of the fact. Hence, Zechariah 12:10 when the Jews returned from 70 years of exile in Babylon, they would gather in Jerusalem with the spirit of grace and supplications where they would mourn for ancient Israel whom they had pierced which means, whose freedom had lost so that Judah could have been chosen to remain in Jerusalem as a People before the Lord forever. (I Kings 11:36) So, Judah aka the Jews would mourn for Israel as one mourns for his firstborn. The bottom line is that the Day of Atonement that used to be celebrated as a prophecy to the day when Judah was atoned by the Scapegoat aka Israel. Today, we still celebrate the Day of Atonement but as in memory of the event already fulfilled.
I am sorry that your "Bible facts" composing your outline above happened to fall in the hands of a Jew who sees absolutely no references to whatever about Jesus. Any and all analogies with what happened to Jesus is found only in the wish-thinking mind of Christian preconceived notions.
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