Traditional Legal Model – Torment will, in the end, be applied by God to the lost as punishment for unrepentant and unpaid-for sin. In some belief systems, that torment (in flames) is eternal. Biblical Healing Model – Torment comes as a natural consequence of sin. Torment in the final judgment will be of the mental […]
Traditional Legal Model: God restraining Himself to give man a little more time before He finally takes corrective or punitive action. Biblical Healing Model: God actually suffering emotionally while hoping man will turn to Him. Modern Dictionary Longsuffering, adjective enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently. (www.dictionary.com) Webster’s 1828 Dictionary Longsuffering, adjective Bearing injuries […]
Traditional Legal Model – a just God, to satisfy His justice and appease His wrath against sinners, must punish every sin before it can be forgiven. Because God loves the sinner, He appointed that sacrifices, ultimately that of His Son, could pay the penalty in man’s behalf. Biblical Healing Model – God freely forgives every […]
Traditional Legal Model – Removing the record of sin thus cancelling the need for the sinner to pay a penalty. Biblical Healing Model – Healing the sinner from the damage of sin to his character as in curing a disease. (But not necessarily removing the natural consequences or after-effects of the sin.) Dictionary definitions related […]
Traditional Legal Model – When payment in blood has been made and accepted by the sinner, the debt of his guilt and record of his sin is blotted out. Biblical Healing Model – Sins are blotted out from a person’s actions and thinking. The tendency to give in to temptation has been overcome. It is […]
Traditional Legal Model: The legal price (Jesus’ death) required by God to purchase the release of sinners and cancel the debt they owe because of their sins. Biblical Healing Model: The price paid to release mankind from what held him captive: the devil’s lies about God’s character and man’s own sinful nature. Especially, we want […]
Traditional legal Model – a sinner is someone who commits a sin as in “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” (1 John 3:4) However, many people would call someone a sinner only if they were particularly bad and significantly worse (in terms of visible acts) than […]
Note: “sanctuary” can have a few meanings. The sanctuary this page is most concerned with is that most often referred to as the heavenly sanctuary that is to be cleansed as in Daniel 8:14 “then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Traditional Legal Model – The sanctuary is heaven or a part thereof where Jesus, in […]
Note that this is an especially-long definition page but a very important term to understand. Traditional Legal Model – God’s outrage at the wrong done to Him; at how He has been treated. It is directed towards the one who has carried out the act and has a degree of retribution associated with it – to […]