What does it mean exactly that the blood of Jesus has purified all Christians?
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God is Just and cannot change. The wages of sin is death and Jesus has died for his people (shed His blood). That sacrifice is acceptable to God as payment for all our sin (even sin we will still commit) Because God is just He can no longer hold our sin against us if Christ has paid for them. Be careful you don't view this as an excuse to sin. Romans teaches us those who think this way are not saved or forgiven. Those n Christ will try to please Him.
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Jesus can never be taken out of pure religion.\n\n"Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world."
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John 3:16.... For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.\n\nHebrews 9:22... and without shedding of blood is no remission.\n\n1 John 1:7....But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
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You do find so much rubbish in answer to sensible questions!\n\nThe early Church were under a new covenenant, the blood of Jesus, and so the strict rules of the old one, which everyone failed at anyway, were void.\n\nActs 15:29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.\n\nPork is back on the menu!
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The quotation you site IS shocking for those who have been duped by the conventional church all this time.  To anyone objective, it is exactly what would be expected.  Christians have brought more violence and bigotry to the earth than any other group.  There is NO HIDDEN MEANING to the passage.  It's very simple.  By starting Christianity, Christ brought a "sword to the world." End of statement.
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Matthew 12:32; 1 Corinthians 3:10-15; Hebrews 12:29; Revelation 21:27; 1 Peter 3:19; 2 Maccabees 12:44-46.\n\nAll who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.\n\nThe Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:\n\nMatthew 12:32 infers that there is a place, neither heaven or hell, wherein sins will be forgiven in the age to come.\n\n1 Corinthians 3:10-15 talks of the fire of judgment and how one's life will be judged based on the foundations laid by Christ, losing what is impure and keeping that which is pure.\n\nHebrews 12:29 again reaffirms that God's love consumes what is impure (Deuteronomy 4:24).\n\nRevelation 21:27 tells us that nothing impure shall enter heaven (which is the reason for the purifying fire of judgment). \n\n1 Peter 3:19 tells us of Jesus' preaching to the spirits in prison. What prison? The abode of the dead (Hebrew: sheol, Greek: hades, Latin: purgatio, English: purgatory). \n\nFinally, 2 Maccabees 12:44-46 gives a very clear example but, sadly, it is not in the Protestant Bible.\n\n1 Timothy 3:15 tells us that it is the Church, not the Bible, which gives us all the truth and provides the basis for determining truth or falsity (none of the Church teachings are in conflict with the Holy Scripture.) Matthew 18:17-19 AGAIN tells us that the Church is the final authority. \n\nSt. Paul reminds us to live in accordance with all the teachings which have been given to us. We are not to be distracted by those who would try to limit the teachings if the Church. (2 Thess 2:15; 3:6)\n\nWhen asked "Where in the Bible does it say that you are to ...?" perhaps we ought to counter "Where in the Bible does it say that we are not to...?"
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I don't know if this helps but it is the the notes\nfrom "Clarke" in e-sword\nPraying God blesses u in ur search for answers....\nShaz\nx x x x x x\n\n1 Cor 15:29 - \nElse what shall they do which are baptized for the dead - This is certainly the most difficult verse in the New Testament; for, notwithstanding the greatest and wisest men have labored to explain it, there are to this day nearly as many different interpretations of it as there are interpreters. I shall not employ my time, nor that of my reader, with a vast number of discordant and conflicting opinions; I shall make a few remarks:\n1.The doctrine of the resurrection of our Lord was a grand doctrine among the apostles; they considered and preached this as the demonstration of the truth of the Gospel.\n2.The multitudes who embraced Christianity became converts on the evidence of this resurrection.\n3.This resurrection was considered the pledge and proof of the resurrection of all believers in Christ to the possession of the same glory into which he had entered.\n4.The baptism which they received they considered as an emblem of their natural death and resurrection. This doctrine St. Paul most pointedly preaches, Rom_6:3-5 : Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead, even so we also should walk in newness of life: for, if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in his resurrection.\n5.It is evident from this that all who died in the faith of Christ died in the faith of the resurrection; and therefore cheerfully gave up their lives to death, as they took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing in themselves that they had in heaven a better and an enduring substance, Heb_10:34.\n6.As is the body, so are the members; those who were properly instructed, and embraced Christianity, believed that as all who had died in the faith of Christ should rise again, so they were baptized in the same faith.\n7.As so many of the primitive followers of Christ sealed the truth with their blood, and Satan and his followers continued unchanged, every man who took on him the profession of Christianity, which was done by receiving baptism, considered himself as exposing his life to the most imminent hazard, and offering his life with those who had already offered and laid down theirs.\n8.He was therefore baptized in reference to this martyrdom; and, having a regard to those dead, he cheerfully received baptism, that, whether he were taken off by a natural or violent death, he might be raised in the likeness of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, and that of his illustrious martyrs.\n9.As martyrdom and baptism were thus so closely and intimately connected, βαπτιζεσθαι, to be baptized, was used to express being put to a violent death by the hands of persecutors. So Mat_20:22, Mat_20:23 : “But Jesus answered and said, Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of? etc.” (Can ye go through my sufferings?) “They say unto him, We are able. He saith unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of my cup,” (ye shall bear your part of the afflictions of the Gospel), “and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with (that is, ye shall suffer martyrdom.) See also Mar_10:38. So Luk_12:50; “I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!” That is, I must die a violent death for the salvation of men.\n10.The sum of the apostle’s meaning appears to be this: If there be no resurrection of the dead, those who, in becoming Christians, expose themselves to all manner of privations, crosses, severe sufferings, and a violent death, can have no compensation, nor any motive sufficient to induce them to expose themselves to such miseries. But as they receive baptism as an emblem of death in voluntarily going under the water, so they receiv
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Huh? Who is Jesus? Do you mean that jewish rabbi Jeshu that the greek christians renamed Jesus and claimed him as their God in the flesh? Didn't he already come back once? How many lives does that guy get any way? The last event would probably be "WORLD-WIDE PANIC"
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Paschal is an adjective referring to Pesach, or Passover. It was at this time that Jesus became the last "lamb" to be sacrificed for the sins of man.  After that, God rejected all the sin offerings that were attempted.  Before his death, there was a red string that would turn white when atonement and forgiveness was acknowledged by God.  After the death of Jesus, the red string remained red, indicating that the sacrifice offered was rejected.  Only the sacrifice of Jesus was acceptable from then onwards. The 40 years later the temple was destroyed and no sacrifices at all could be done. As lambs were used for the sacrifice of sins, Jesus was the lamb that took away the sins of the world...he the last Passover (Pesach)lamb to be accepted by God.
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Don't know, but the blood of Jesus Christ lives on, in that it continues to cover our sins.  I am grateful for that.
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Jesus defeated death by his Crucifixion and resurrection.  Now we have been given the gift of eternal life through Jesus...)(
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Jesus commanded that whenever we gather in His name (like at church), we do it. It is the reminder that it was He who died for our sins, and it was His blood that washed our sin away - a way to honor His actions. There is also the promise of His return, to drink the new wine with us.
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Well for a Christian this simply means that the Long awaited Days of Total Peace and Joy and the end of all sorrows is comming soon. They will get to be with Jesus their savior. The one who they live their lives here on earth for. Kinda like Stepping out of a Filthy nasty sewer that they have been trapped in forever and into clean fresh running water never to see or smell the sewer again.
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Matthew 27:24-26\n\n24  ¶ When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands Deut. 21.6-9 before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.\n \n25  Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.\n \n26  Then released he Barab'bas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.\n====================================================\nDueteronomy 21:6-7\n\n6  and all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:\n \n7  and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.\n \nYes, it was Our Lords own brethren that put Him to death..but Praise the Lord..He rose again and He now sits at the right hand of the Father..Amen!!
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You get redemption through Jesus Christ and Him alone.  The Bible says "In Him (meaning Jesus), we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins."
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Real.\n\nScripture:  Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you" (John 6:53).\n\nTradition:  "In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained" - the Catechism of the Catholic Church\n\nReason - It's certainly what St. Paul and the Early Church believed:  "For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body."  Saint Paul - 1 Corinthians 11:29\n\nBesides all of that - Jesus was pretty clear when he said:\n\n"Hoc est enim corpus meum"\n\n"THIS IS MY BODY"
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The battle was over before it began.  Jesus Christ was slain before the foundation of the world.  God's purposes have all been accomplished. But time as we perceive it is playing it out.   \n\nGod is in all of time all at once.  There is no battle, it's already over.