The Need For New Wine
It's understandable, children of earth thinking the Word threatened by changes resulting from its proper interpretation; dealing with man, his sinfulness and his 'damage is already done' TRICKS! No matter what my age, where I was living, or how many years I'd been gone, my mother always asked me, over the phone, "where you going to church?", listening for only a reply in the affirmation of her convictions about sin, the blood of Jesus and being saved from my own HORRIBLE destruction. People who think that blood was offered for their sins, whether they realise it or not, they need fit for a straight jacket! The Message Of The Cross is about the Four Directions and our natural uprightness before God ; the crucifixion has nothing to do with it. While the story and the many feelings associated with it, are strong and real, so are the ones associated with Old Yeller! It's just a story, the Bible has had over 70 books excluded from it's "Canon"....