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Excerpts from; An Essay on Jesus and Substitution

Excerpts from; An Essay on Jesus and Substitution
By Nyron Medina
Christ made two major merits available to man, His sufferage and His gift of Life; these are 
what saves man, not the physical death of Christ paying a penalty under God’s wrath. It is the Life of Christ that substitutes spiritual death in the lost sinner and thus changes him, making him holy or righteous. 
Life is a knowledge of God and Christ, and this is an experience of the Love of God in the mind of the converted. It is this Life that dwells in the converted as the indwelling of the Holy spirit and determines the man being converted and thus acceptable to God. This is what is meant to be saved from sin within the heart. So we can say that because of the split/given blood/life of Christ man is able to be saved. It is blood/life that makes atonement for sin, that is, it is blood/life thelife of Christ that removes sin and replaces it with the Love of God. This shows us that it is the spilt blood of Christ that is His given life that cause us to be saved. 
Thus it is in this sense that we can say God saves us because of the spilt blood of Christ. The track of truth may appear very close to the track of error, and the mind not worked upon the Holy Spirit of Truth may not discern the difference; so it is that error, especially about the death of Christ, may enter into Adventism and completely change its principles. But when the mind of the Christian is exercised greatly in the word of God by the enlightening aid of the Spirit of Truth, a world of a difference parts the track of truth from that of error that the difference can be clearly seen and the truth may be exalted before all. (Jn 3:16,17; Proverbs 17:15,26; Exodus 23:7; Ezekiel 18:20,23,31,32; John 10:10,11,15; 1Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 4:1,2; 1 John 4:10,11; Proverbs 21:3; John 17:3). 
May God bless you all. Amen

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