God would not put your sin on Jesus.

Alright, thanks again to my opponent for his concluding response. I find this debate extremely interesting and so far.. I've seen nothing to sway my opinion that Jesus is the fulfillment of biblical atonement found in the OT.. Although, I think are response's are getting extremely heavy.. I'll keep my response's simple here on out.. My opponent claims: "Ok that doesn't really help the issue that atonement is REQUIRED in order to be right before God"Sorry, my opponent added "Required" to fit his theory. Blood is used, but not required." I'm sorry but the OT is very clear on this issue.. I've already quoted Leviticus 17:11: "For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life." My opponent then claims: As Leviticus 17 does not say that blood is required for atonement, but only use for atonement,How do you go from "It is the blood that makes atonement for one's life"... to "Oh wait.. He doesn't mean required.. He's just showing how it is one use for atonement.." Its none other than using the Biblical text to serve my opponents own biased views.. I think its quite obvious. My opponent then spews a bunch of OT passages that display God's dislike of animal sacrifice to atone for sins... This does NOTHING to help his argument.. It does not logically follow that because God dislikes the burnt offerings.. It therefore means that the atonement is not necessary.. In fact, I find it funny that my opponent conveniently leaves out certain phrases in his OT posts.. Take a look "6For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. 7But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously against Me."Here it shows how God desires that we would obey him rather then sacrifice BUT because every human like Adam has transgressed the law.. The need for burnt offerings is required.. My opponent did leave that part in.. Similarly.. My opponent quotes: "The multitude of your sacrifices-- what are they to me?" says the LORD. "I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. Isaiah 1:13My opponent leaves out the fact that God is sick of the meaningless sacrifices ("bring no more vain offerings" Isaiah 1:13) that the people of Israel were offering.. The people disconnected their sacrifices from their true purpose, They were treating their worship as a way of manipulating God. This in no way shows that God somehow.. Did not require an atoning sacrifice. My opponent then states: "You god that requires the death of someone for your sin and your god of the New Testament is unmerciful."Can we soak on that for a second? The God of the New Testament is unmerciful.. Let me lay out the story of the NT God..Now I must start by stating the Jesus is God.. He is God incarnate (John 1:14).. The biblical depiction of the Cross is not God sending a mere human to pay for the sins of humanity.. It is GOD HIMSELF coming down and bearing the sins of humanity.. Judaism misses this crucial point. Here's a more in depth explanation: http://www.gotquestions.org...Nevertheless.. To say that the NT God is unmerciful is a statement full of misconceptions.. How could you say that a God that suffers and dies for all of humanity in order to reconcile his creation back to himself is unmerciful? You cant.. Unless of course.. You claim that its not true.. My opponents claim is thus, nullified.. All the OT passages are referring to the same merciful attributes described in the Jesus narrative. There is no distinction.Overall.. My opponents final rebuttal is very weak.. I want to however.. Address his quoting of Ezekiel 14:14even if these three men--Noah, Daniel and Job--were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign LORD.So he essentially says.. "these men could save themselves by by THEIR OWN righteousness.. Therefore atonement is not needed" Hmm... Well what is righteousness then? according to Ecclesiastics 7:20: Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins." Well my opponent would say that turning from your ways and meticulously following God's law will save you.. However since all have sinned and continually do wrong.. How can we ever be saved? How can we ever be righteous?Well God answers this question with Abraham: And Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD counted him as righteous because of his faith. Genesis 15:6Romans 4 further discusses this idea: 1What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.3For what does the Scripture say? "ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."… 5But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,…So we see that Abraham was not justified by his own ability to be "sin free" but by his faith in God.. Similarly Daniel was also made righteous by God through his faith in God's ability to save himDaniel 9:7 - 7"Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame.I also find it funny that both Noah and Job offered sacrifices to the Lord for the atonement of sins...Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. Genesis 8:20When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular custom. - Job 1:5 Guys.. The need for atonement and faith in God's ability to make one righteous is found ALL THROUGHOUT the OT.. My opponents claims that atonement is not necessary is completely misguiding. “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares theLord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31: 31-34 Jesus is the fulfilment of this new covenant and also is the fulfilment of the Old Testament Law “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Matthew 5:17-18The fact is.. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. Galatians 2:16 I urge my opponent to come to faith in Jesus.. I did not have time to cover the messianic prophecies.. However, Jesus is the only way to salvation.."For if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins." Galatians 2:16Thank you for this debate!