Iam Thatiam,
Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
Thanks again for sharing. Sorry you felt I was critiquing. I'm not; also just sharing things I learned.
Re Old/New Testaments, I found the New calls itself a "better testament" having a "better covenant" than the Old. Hebrews, kinda written as if a mini bible itself, addresses how PluralGod provided "better" things for us than for them, of such allegoric them/us scenarios.
In Hebrews 8:13 KJV it says:
"In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away".
Yet it seems we have to get in Christ mode, of through Jesus→Christ, for all things to become new, by old things passing away. For Jesus mode still has both new + old, by still having both salvation + damnation. Seems the reconciliation process, by & unto that God (can't lie or die), is only done in Christ mode, of through Jesus→Christ→↑unto God↑.
Eg: 2Cor 5:17 ... 19 KJV says:
"Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new"... "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation".
Hey, I like your mention (aka insight) of 'Forgiveness does not eliminate sin(evil)... Forgiveness covers sin(evil) but it's still there'. I came to the same conclusion, upon finally noticing these things:
- The first "Blessed" of 2 in Romans 4:7,8 is like DiapperBlessed, aka just a CoverUp, which can later get UnCovered by Luke 12:2. Seems we have a lot of such UnCovering going on now, to reveal the pew is not yet flushed, only covered up. So we have to move on, from LawBlessed in Rom 4:7 to GraceBlessed in Rom 4:8 has no sin imputed to forgive nor cover up.
Eg: Romans 4:7,8 KJV:
4:7 [Saying], Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
4:8 Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
- In KJV, which uses both "love" and "charity" for 'agape' (as if to distinguish law 'agape' can wax cold from grace 'agape' never fails), it notes in 1Cor 13:5 that charity "thinketh no evil"; So neither to punish nor forgive; And in Col 3:12-15 "charity" is put on "above" forgiving, which is the higher above of 2 kinds of "above" in Col 3:1-15: 'ano' & 'epi' in Greek mode. I didn't see that until the Spirit prompted me to study it out.
So it's allegory like a 3rd stage in the biblical narrative. Eg:
OT Law → NT BetterLaw → ↑Grace↑ = neither of Law1/Law2
Seems why it mentions, in Hebrews, that there's still two houses in the new covenant: Israel ←&→ Judah; And our Lord ↑sprang↑ out of Judah, to go "higher than the heavens" on high, to thereby be-come the "harmless" us, which is above the them/us duality on high. So the conclusion of Hebrews is not Law, nor BetterLaw, but "Grace [be] with you all. Amen".
Yes, there's both darkness and light in duality mode of PluralGod; But "that God" in 2Cor 5:19 (who reconciles the world unto himself) seems to be described in 1John 1:5 as light having no darkness in him at all. Eg: 1John 1:5 KJV:
"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all".
Perhaps the "allegory" aspect of such is "that God" is grace having no law in him at all; Kinda like "the only true God" in John 17:3 would have no lie (of lie/truth), and "the God of all grace" would have no law (of law/grace) in 1Peter 5:10, which comes "after" of before/after scenarios.
