FORGIVENESS OF SINS WITHOUT JESUS
Keywords:
Forgiveness of Sins, Christian, Sin Of Adam, Jesus, Salvation History, God’s History with Israel, Jesus’ DeathAbstract
When I was a young child, the story of salvation given to me by the Ursuline nuns at Holy Cross Grade School, was something so simple, so compelling, and so wonderful. Adam sinned and we inherited the consequences: God’s grace dried up and the gates of heaven were sealed shut. For thousands of years, people were dying, but no one was able to get into heaven. Everyone was waiting for God to send a redeemer. Then, Jesus finally arrived and died for our sins on the cross. And, as my Baltimore Catechism so clearly demonstrated, at the moment that Jesus died on the cross, there, way up in the clouds, the gates of heaven were again being opened. Finally the souls of all the good people who had died could enter into heaven and be with God for all eternity.
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