Do you not understand the difference between justice and mercy or grace? If God imputes the sins of one to another that is injustice. When God, by Jesus Christ, imputes righteousness to the unworthy, that is grace and mercy. I am not sure that a passage such as 2 Corinthians 5:21 is actually saying that sin was imputed to Jesus.
In the OT, sin wasn't imputed to the animal being sacrificed. That wouldn't even have made sense. But the animal became the sin-offering to God for Israe as the way of atonement. I think it is in the same way that Jesus became the sin-offering to God for the sins of the world, except with Jesus it was the perfect once for all sacrifice.
The only morality that we can know is from God is that which aligns with God's own character.
I would offer .Remember as David declared in the Psalms if the foundations of the teaching of Christ is destroyed. What could the believer do?
The foundation of the doctrines are in the Old they were the ceremonial laws as shadows Not something that began in Acts 2 that some call early church. . . the shadows disappeared when the first century reformation came.
The ceremonies like "circumcisions' or baptisms" having no value of themselves they were used as
shadows in respect to the gospel the
sufferings of
Christ our husband beforehand .(sign to the world not themselves.) every item used spoke of the sufferings savior beforehand. .
They were signs used in
parables the
figurative language, which without Christ spoke not hiding the understanding of
faith the (invisible) "Let there be" power of Christ.
A sign to the unbelieving world. Again they were not signs unto their own dying flesh. I did it. . it proves. . I am a child of God
Aarons two sons made it a sign unto themselves (5 second false fame) .They were consumed by what they added to the law called; "strange fire" Their priestly attire they carried the ashes away not hint of smoke.
Even today some Jews do worship a idol image a shadow of the law. The Western or Wailing Wall.
1 Peter1: 9-11 Receiving the
end of
your (new born again )
faith, even the
salvation of your
souls. Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who
prophesied of the
grace that should come unto
you: Searching what, or what
manner of time (Hebrews the Spirit of Christ which was in them did
signify, when
it testified
beforehand the
sufferings of
Christ, and the
glory that should follow
Signify. . using the
temporal things seen in parables
figures of speech in order to give the understanding of Christ, the invisible eternal thing of Christ things that mightyfuly work in the believer
Hebrew 9:8-10 The
Holy Ghost this
signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: Which was a
figure for the
time then present, (Kings in Israel) in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that
could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; Which
stood only in meats and drinks, and
divers washings, and
carnal ordinances, imposed on them
until the
time of reformation.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For
he hath made
him to be
sin for us, who
knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of
God in
him.
Paraphrase. . For he has made him Jesus the Son of man dying mankind in the likeness of sin in whom the Holy Spirit poured out his Spirit life on (called drink blood eat flesh) .
A theophany or vision like that of Melchezedek would not work. Literal dying flesh and blood was a must to show the working of a living sacrifice of Christ . No dead sacrifices
Romans 8:3 For what the
law (letter death) could not do, in that
it was weak through the
flesh, God sending
his own
Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for
sin, condemned sin in the
flesh:
