What Does The Phrase "christ Suffered For Our Sins" Mean?

[rosie321]

Read and skimmed through the different comments.

Injustice/sacrifice overpowering the demands of justice....can really appreciate those thoughts and your understanding. An example, probably not the best, I couldn't help but thinking of it, Was the traditional, stereotypical married couple with children. The mother usually is the softer one with greater bowels of mercy so to say. The father usually goes in with the authorative justice side of things to keep things moving. The two are forces to be reckoned with. The father usually is softened by the mothers pleading. By her overpowering bowels of mercy. She understands the rules must be followed yet still pleads on her childrens behalf so that the full justice and wrath for error or wrongdoing may not befall her beloved child.

The father beset with love with love for his honey and childtakes a second to really consider the details of the particular offense. He is bound by the set rules and wishes he wasn't in this bad guy position of having to make the child accountable.

While he demands accountability he usually softens it down and is more willing to adjust the punishment if he sees the child is sorrowful for what he has done. He very well may listen to the mothers pleadings (for a peaceable homecooked dinner..night with honey :) etc....errr I mean a more proper correction for his child.

If the child is abnoxious and unwilling to change or stop the father will most likely

mete out the full measure of punishment. No mercy.

The overpowering justices interpretation as you introduced it AK or AKA CrimsonKairos really shows the importance of the sacrament and our going and partaking of it to in effect cancel out the justice. Justice has no hold. That is one thing that was brought to my attention in the Alma 34. You can choose to follow the justice or mercy path. Once on that mercy path you really get to understand the sacrifice of Christ. You daily are enlightened to what it is that he went through and as was said in prevous post you develop that At one ment with Christ. You come to KNOW Him in a very real way as you're walking in His footsteps. It isn't a free TO sin pass. Its a free FROM sin pass and a chance to have the AT ONE MENT become part of your life. Without this overpowering force of at one ment better start planning to experience the full consequences of our actions.

thanks -glad you're still around Crimson...

[pushka]

Hahahaha pushka, good call. I've been hit hard the past few days with a serious flu/virus and my brain has been throbbing regularly every few seconds so...I misspelled dam as damn.

Reminds me of a joke:

What did the salmon say when it swam into a concrete wall?

Dam.

(Sounds better when spoken...the whole homonym thing )

LOL CK, I'm sorry to hear you're poorly! Hope you make a full recovery very soon

[CrimsonKairos]

Thanks Pushka, I think a lil' tylenol and plenty of sleep will do the trick.

Rosie, I enjoyed your comments. The example of a father/mother/child to illustrate justice/mercy/repentance was quite apt, in my opinion. I think nearly everyone can understand or has experienced that phenomenon (mothers being the "mediator" in the family most of the time). Well said. And I'm glad you're glad I'm still around.