THE SECOND LAW OF SALVATION-THE LAW OF JESUS’ BLOOD
“There is a fountain,
filled with blood,
flowing from Immanuel’s
veins…”
-Church Hymn
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“God presented Him as a sacrifice
Of atonement….through faith in His blood…”
-Romans 3: 25
I. THE THREE CLASSES OF HUMAN REGARDING KNOWLEDGE OF THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS CHRIST
In regard to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the belief Jesus lived for 33 years, was crucified, died, resurrected, and ascended to Heaven, and faith in the objective existence of these concepts and of Christ’s divinity, there are three classes of human being.
CLASS I-Humans born, living, and dying prior to the birth of Jesus Christ that without divine prevision of the concept and person of Christ lived their lives never knowing of the existence of Jesus Christ. These persons, due to their unknowledgeable circumstance, have no basis for faith in Jesus nor His blood prior to death.
CLASS II-Humans born and living during the birth, childhood, adulthood, ministry, miracle-performance, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. These humans, excluding those dying prior to (thus having no knowledge of) the Crucifixion (such that these humans have no basis, unless viewing the miracles and believing Christ was the Son of God, for faith in Jesus, but in regard to the forgiveness of sins enabling salvation having no basis for faith in Jesus’ blood), have, if observing the Crucifixion and believing Christ is the Son of God dying to take away the sins of the world (a miraculous knowledge and belief granted by God the Father to those predestined for salvation), basis for possessing faith in Jesus and Jesus’ blood. Of Class II humans there are three types:
A. Humans that observed, heard the teachings, observed the miracles of, and verbally and/or physically interacted with Christ (such as the woman with the issue of blood) that, if believing Jesus was the Son of God come in the flesh either in response to observing the miracles or simply believing with God-gifted faith and further, observing the Crucifixion and believing Christ justified all sins by His death on the Cross, are humans predestined for salvation as they simply possess the saving belief.
B. Humans that observed, heard the teachings, observed the miracles of, and verbally and/or physically interacted with Christ that failed to believe Jesus is the Son of God and God made flesh. This disbelief persist even when observing Christ’s crucifixion, as such humans are not granted the saving faith.
C. Humans living while Christ walked the Earth, but that had never seen, interacted with, nor heard of Jesus Christ. An example is a Japanese person born, raised, living, and dying in Japan as Christ lived and operated in the Middle East. Due to geographical distance and circumstance, the person never learns of the existence and exploits of Jesus prior to one’s death, and as such has no basis for faith in Jesus nor in His blood.
The Bible worries regarding humans that are Class I and Unknowledgeable Class II and III (forthcoming):
“How, then, shall they call on the Name of Him
in whom they have not believed? And how can
they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone preaching
to them? And how can anyone preach without
being sent? As it is written: ‘How beautiful are
the feet of those who bring good news.’”
-Romans 10:14-15
CLASS III-Humans born after the Ascension of Jesus Christ that born thus will never see Jesus in human, biological form:
“For we know that since Christ was raised
from the dead He cannot die again; death
no longer has mastery over Him.”
-Romans 6:9
These persons gain knowledge of Jesus Christ from the Bible, religious institutions, non-religious mention, and generational word of mouth. There may, remarkably, exist humans following the Ascension and living in the present day that have never heard of Jesus Christ. These latter fall under the category of Unknowledgeable Class III or a post-Ascension version of Class I human.
II. “FAITH IN HIS BLOOD”
“God presented Him as a sacrifice
Of atonement…
…through faith in His blood.”
-Romans 3:25
Faith, as distinguished from belief, may be defined as belief in the objective existence of something combined with hope for the objective existence of that in which one believes. The things that require faith are invisible by nature, as because they do not obtain to the senses or do not yet obtain have no sensory grounds for their existence. As Paul explains:
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for;
The evidence of things not seen.”
-Hebrews 11:1
And:
“For in this hope we were saved. But hope
that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes
for what they already have?”
-Romans 8:24
God responds to faith, which He Himself imputes to those who find they believe and hope in Him and for Him (“…the faith that comes through Him…”). There is an effortless apprehension or a knowing that that which one hears or reads is true, despite the fact there is no sensory evidence for its truth.
To the saved, i.e. those justified by God through Jesus Christ, one has faith in Jesus—specifically, faith in Jesus’ blood.
“Since we have been justified by His blood,
how much more shall we be saved from
God’s wrath through Him?”
-Romans 5:9
III. WHAT, THEN, IS THE BLOOD OF CHRIST?”
If one must have faith in Jesus’ blood to be saved, what is meant by the term: “blood”?
A. THE LITERAL MEANING OF JESUS’ BLOOD
“For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell
in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself
all things, whether things on earth or things in
heaven, by making peace through His blood,
shed on the Cross.”
-Colossians 1:20
If the term “blood” in Colossians 1:20 refers to the biological liquid pumped to and from the heart to the arteries and veins, God making peace with sinners through Jesus’ blood is a matter of:
1. Believing God came to Earth in the flesh through a virgin and as a Jewish male having biological blood flowing through His arteries and veins and hoping, as faith is belief combined with hope, that this was an objective reality.
2. With the crucifixion of Jesus Christ being the sole physical event required for salvation, having faith in Jesus’ blood with the literal meaning of “blood” means having faith salvation depends upon Christ’s physical blood being shed, i.e. forcefully ejected from His body through life-threatening violence:
“This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. When Moses had proclaimed every command of the Law to the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people.
He said, ‘This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.’ In the same way, he sprinkled blood in the tabernacle and everything used in the ceremonies. In fact, the Law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; He entered Heaven itself, to appear for us in God’s presence. Nor did He enter Heaven to offer Himself over again and again, the way the high priests entered the Most Holy Place every year with blood that was not their own. Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But He appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Just as men are destined to die once and afterwards face Judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many.”
-Hebrews 9:18-28 (New International Version)
(Reasons why that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness: Speculation: God is sinless, and sin must not exist. Sin does not exist when and after one dies (save memory of past sin as theorized in the Fifth Law of Salvation-The Law of Jesusian Reality). Shed blood occurs when something/someone is killed, i.e. forced to die. Killing is forced sinlessness. The blood of sacrificial animals sprinkled upon sinner symbolizes the rendering of sinlessness through the sacrificial animal (given those undergoing these early practices did not know of the existence of Jesus Christ) that is believed to purify the sins of those covered in the animal’s blood, as the animal is something that died as punishment for the sins of the Israelites in lieu of the Israelites suffering the penalty for sin assumed by the animal.)
B. THE LITERAL BLOOD OF JESUS WAS SPILLED, BUT NOT SPRINKLED UPON NOR MADE PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH THE VAST, TRANSHISTORICAL POPULATION OF THE SAVED
Moses and the other high priests each year sprinkled the tabernacle, ceremonial objects in the tabernacle, and the people with blood for the forgiveness of sins, but though these were required by the Law prior to Christ, animal blood could not take away sins:
“The Law is only a shadow of the good that was to come—not the reality itself. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices required endless year after year, make perfect those who drew near to worship. Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipper would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer feel guilty for their sins. But the sacrifices were an annual reminder of sins. It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifice, that can never take away sins.”
-Hebrews 10: 1-4; 11 (NIV)
Jesus’ physical blood was shed during His scourging, walk to Golgotha, the hanging upon the cross, the rigors of crucifixion, and final stabbing with the spear, but unlike the animals of the Hebrew sacrifices, Jesus’ blood was not sprinkled upon/made physical contact with anyone save the Roman soldiers that beat Him, other attendees of His crucifixion, and those coming into contact with His blood as His body was removed for the cross and prepared for burial.
What does this technicality mean?
It means the physical blood of Jesus never, does not, nor will ever make physical contact with the trillions of saved humans born and living before, during, and following the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Logic demands, then, that salvation does not depend upon being physically sprinkled with or coming into physical contact with Jesus’ physical blood.
(Indeed, how might a person born two thousand years following the Crucifixion make contact with the physical blood of Christ?)
If this were a requirement for salvation, the disciples (who were scattered with some few observing the Crucifixion from a distance), Paul, and trillions of beings believing they are save are in fact lost, with the only humans in the history of human existence qualifying for salvation are the Roman soldiers that beat, mocked, and speared Christ, others forced by the soldiers to raise and lower the cross, those tending to the body of Christ following the Crucifixion in preparation for His burial, and Simon of Cyrene.
The puzzle becomes clearer. If forgiveness of sins and salvation does not depend upon physical contact with Jesus’ physical blood—how then does Jesus’ physical blood take away sin?
C. HOW DOES JESUS’ BIOLOGICAL BLOOD TAKE AWAY SIN?
Logic reveals one is not saved solely by faith Jesus existed and was once a biological human with biological blood flowing through arteries and veins. The faith that takes away sin is faith in Jesus’ blood having some ability, by reason of it being Jesus’ blood as opposed to that of any other being that shall and can exist, to take away sins by causing God (the final arbiter and the one who forgives and takes away sin and the record of sin that would have condemned one in the Final Judgment) to want to forgive and not count sins against one having this saving (rather than merely existential) faith in Jesus’ blood.
“…their sins and lawless deeds
I will remember no more.”
-Hebrews 10:17
Jesus’ biological blood did not leave the border of His skin until the Garden of Gethsemane during hematidrosis (bloody sweat) brought about by the monolithic stress produced by the thought of the monumental horror He was to experience upon the Cross. Jesus’ blood at last ceased flowing during the clotting of His wounds before burial. Thus only in this small window of time—from eternity to eternity—was Jesus’ blood outside the confines of His skin.
The shedding of Jesus’ blood, the blood of “Him who had no sin made to be sin for us” is the only blood in this or any universe God accepts and requires for the forgiveness and removal of sin, albeit Scripture alludes to a second phenomenon occurring within Jesus alongside and in response to the shedding of His physical blood that Jesus’ physical blood may be said to symbolize, and even initiate—and it is contended this second phenomenon is the actual “blood” that yields forgiveness and forfeiture of the account of sin.
If one ignores the alluded second phenomenon and believe it is Jesus’ physical blood that forgives sin, what supernatural power does the blood possess that enables the liquid to cause God to forgive sin?
One answer may be that, like in magic and superstition an ordinary object or event arbitrarily may be chosen by a supernatural or magical entity as the “currency” the entity arbitrarily requires to produce or perform a magical or miraculous act or condition, Jesus’ physical blood is the arbitrary currency God requires for the forgiveness of sins, in the supernatural manner of the blood first being necessarily shed, with God observing the shedding, and His memory of Christ’s bloody travail being superimposed in God’s mind over mental observation of the sins of a human asking for forgiveness in the context of having faith in Christ’s sacrifice and the ability of Christ’s blood to block God’s view of one’s sin, and to not count one’s sin against one in the Judgment.
That is, a supernatural effect occurs wherein God can no longer see a faithful person’s sins but instead views His Son bloodily sacrificed, provided the sinner has faith that Christ’s crucifixion causes God to want to forgive sin through this mental distraction due to one having faith in the supernatural property of Jesus’ crucifixion and primarily, the blood shed during the act.
“…and when I see the blood, I will pass over you…”
-Exodus 12:13
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Thus the process of salvation involving only Jesus’ physical blood entails:
1. One believes Jesus Christ is God’s Son and God in the flesh.
2. One believes Jesus’ physical blood shed on the cross takes away sins or causes God to forgive and take away sin.
3. There is an arbitrary relation between Jesus’ blood and God’s forgiveness of sin, as well as faith in the power of the blood to cause God to want to forgive sin.
4. The blood’s appearance upon Christ’s body function as a “catchall” substitutional punishment for Hell in all forgiven sins, and accepted by God as just punishment for sin in lieu of Hell.
5. When one commits sin while having faith in Jesus’ divinity and sacrifice, one confesses one’s sin to God and asks for forgiveness with the genuine, unfeigned intention of never repeating the sin. Upon this, God places the mental image of Christ being crucified over the image of one’s sin, with this substituted imaged regarded as just punishment for the person’s confessed sin.
Confession may be mental, and there is an all-inclusive prayer in Psalms that can cover even forgotten sin:
“Wash away all my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sins.
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always with me.
Against you, only you, have I sinned, and done what is evil in
your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak, and
justified when you judge.
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I
will be white as snow. Hide your face from my sins, and blot
out my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew
a steadfast Spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence,
or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of
your salvation, and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
You do not desire sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not
take pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifice to God is a
broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will
not despise.”
-Psalm 51: 1-4; 7-12; 16, 17
The role of Jesus’ blood in the forgiveness of sins follows the example of the animal sacrifices prior to the coming of Christ (as Christ was the final “Passover Lamb”), but while Jesus’ physical blood is believed to alone cause God to forgive sins, a second phenomenon, stated boldly in 1 Peter 2:24, occurred while Jesus died upon the Cross that may be the actual “blood” that was shed on the Cross, a cosmic blood resulting from the shedding of Christ’s physical blood, the second “blood” being the actual supernatural mechanism that causes God to want to forgive sins and spares one from Hell.
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IV. CONCLUSION: THE PSYCHIC BLOOD OF THE SACRIFICIAL DREAM
“He Himself bore our sins in His body
on the cross, that we might die to sin
and live for righteousness.”
-1 Peter 2:24
“He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross…”
1 Peter 2: 24 reveals a second phenomenon other than the shedding of Jesus’ physical blood that occurred as He died upon the Cross. Christ “bore our sins in His body…”. One cannot confuse this phenomenon for Jesus’ shed biological liquid, nor confuse or mistake the unambiguous meaning of 1 Peter 2:24. It is this second, cosmic “blood” that made peace when it was “shed” on the Cross, as it binds one to Christ in the for of an inextricable mirroring of experience.
Yes, it is the case that Jesus’ physical blood in terms of salvation is required, but it is argued that the shedding of Jesus’ blood is necessary in salvation for its purpose in activating the second, cosmic “blood” “shed” in Christ’s mind as He died upon the Cross. It is the second “blood” that causes God to forgive sins and not count men’s sins against them in the atmosphere of one’s faith this “blood” exists.
A. METONYMICAL BLOOD
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
metonymy
(noun)
1: a figure of speech consisting of the use of the
name of one thing for that of another of which
it is an attribute or with which it is associated
The term “blood” in the context of Christian salvation may be a combination of the literal biological liquid and a metonymy—one that uses the term “blood” to refer to Christ’s mental anguish and suffering in the horrific and fatalistic events within His mind as He died upon the Cross.
This metonymical blood is not a liquid, but a virtually interminable series of disastrous and excruciatingly painful mental events.
B. THE MIND IS (SEEMINGLY) WITHIN THE BODY
When one observes the word “body”, one instinctively and reflexively thinks of the physical, biological form of an organism independent of its invisible, intangible mind. The mind, however, is thought to nevertheless reside within the body. Though the mind seems to reside in the body, however, reality being Berkeleian in nature (adhering to Bishop George Berkeley’s Idealism)–the body is rather within the mind as the “physical” body is a construct of an individual’s consciousness having no external, mind-independent counterpart. For the sake of argument, we will accept the concept and belief the mind resides within the body of an individual to elucidate
1Peter 2: 24.
If Christ bore our sins in His body on the Cross, did Christ carry our sins in His blood cells, liver, spleen, intestines, or skin? How might a theft committed two thousand years in the future be placed within a physical body dying two thousand years in the past? Does sin teleport into the past to lie within Christ’s body in the form of a hologram of the theft invisible to the eyes of those beholding Christ’s crucifixion?
It must be logically assumed, then, that sin appears in Christ in the same form it occurs in the future (given the relevant example), as opposed to appearing within Christ’s body in a symbolic form visually or more importantly, experientially, unrecognizable from the manner in which the sin is experienced by the sinner two thousand years in the future. Where, then, in Christ’s body might this carbon copy of the theft appear if 1 Peter 2:24 is true and Christ “bore our sins in His body on the Cross”?
The most reasonable answer, given that the mind is believed to be within the body if one ignores Berkeley’s Idealism, is that part of the body that is Christ’s mind.
We have in 1 Peter 2:24, then, Biblical proof Christ carried our sins within Him on the Cross, but Christ being sinless from eternity to eternity necessitates this sin, upon entering Christ, while bearing an identical likeness to the outward sin committed by a sinner, to be translated within Christ’s mind by God as something other than sin: that is, as Christ’s sufferings.
C. THE SACRIFICIAL DREAM (See the main article upon the Sacrificial Dream in the Fourth Law of Salvation-The Law of the Sacrificial Dream)
“For troubles without number surround me;
my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my heart fails within me.”
-Psalm 40:12
1 Peter 2:24 allows a hypothesis regarding the nature and mechanism of the appearance of sin within the body (re: mind) of crucified Christ.
While the Bible does not reveal what was going on in Jesus’ mind as He died upon the Cross, 1 Peter 2:24 does not occur in a vacuum, such that whatever was in Christ’s mind as He died had something to do with 1 Peter 2:24. It is hypothesized in Christpsychic Theology that the mind of Christ while crucified was submerged within a non-lucid dream.
Non-lucid dreams, the most common type of dream, are imaginary worlds within the mind of a sleeping person the person believes is the real world until one awakes.
The Sacrificial Dream Hypothesis states that while dying upon the Cross, the physical blood of Jesus, due to its copious loss induced a supernatural shock, akin to the medical shock occurring during extreme blood loss, that in turn induced an intermittent, “eons-long” (in terms of Christ’s subjective experience of the length of time the Dream occurred, despite outside Christ’s mind the crucifixion only lasted six hours) non-lucid dream in which Christ dreamt of being every saved person that shall ever exist, to “sin” every sin these individuals will sin outside Christ’s mind prior to and centuries beyond the Crucifixion, as well as their every misfortune and victimhood.
The saved, therefore, with 1 Peter 2:24 being proof of the existence of the Sacrificial Dream, cannot sin any sin that was not “experienced” by Christ within the Sacrificial Dream:
“Don’t you know that all of us
that were baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into His
death? We were therefore
buried with Him through
baptism into death in order
that, just as Christ was raised
from the death through the glory
of the Father, we too may live
a new life.
For if we have been united with
Him like this in His death, we will
certainly also be united with Him
in His resurrection.”
-Romans 6: 4-5
As the saved can only sin (1 John 1:8-10) the “sins” (i.e. sufferings when it comes to sin as it appears in Christ’s dreaming mind, as these “sin-twins” are not counted by God as sin within Christ) of Christ in the Sacrificial Dream, God does not counts their sins against them (Romans 4:5). In Christpsychic Consciousness the saved confess and repent of their sins and undergo a cancer-like “remission of sin” in the form of a gradual lessening of sin over time, such that due to predetermined Christpsychic fate the Sacrificial Dream cannot be used as a “license to sin” as the saved person is fated to sin less and less through gradually increasing instances and encroachments of Christpsychic Consciousness.
The mental anguish and destroyed loves suffered within the mind of crucified Christ; the corruption and depravity, is the metonymical Blood of Jesus—the mental, actual “blood” activated by the shedding of His physical (actually Berkeleian) blood upon the Cross. This cosmic, psychic blood is the blood that causes God to forgive sins as the sins God forgives are only re-enactments of the sufferings of Christ with the Sacrificial Dream, such that these sins are not counted against those who can do nothing but re-enact the experiences within Christ’s dying dream.
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