- Did Jesus die a spiritual death to atone for sin or a physical death?
Define spiritual death?
What death was Adam threatened with?
What role does the “shedding of blood” play in the atonement process?
Is Gen 3:21 the institution of animal sacrifices? Or was it not a “sacrifice”?
What is the difference between the “punishment” for sin and the “Consequences” of sin of Adam?
Was Gen 3:19 a curse of death placed upon men?
- Was the NC inaugurated in Jesus’ blood? (Heb 9:18)
When did the Old Covenant pass away? (Heb 10:9)
When was the new Priesthood of Christ established? (Heb 7)
What does the torn veil of the temple represent? (Matt 27:52)
When was the way into heaven opened up? (Heb 10:19-20)
Who were the captive captives of Eph 4:8?
- What is the “Redemption of the body.” (Rom 8:23)
How would you translate “body of us” from the Greek into English?
- How are we “united with him in a resurrection like his”? (Rom 6:5)
What Kind of Resurrection did Jesus experience?
- How is our body transformed in Phil 3:21?
Define lowly, carnal, body of humility
Define what is a spiritual body? (I Cor 15:44)
Define what is a natural body?
- I Thess 4:16d The dead in Christ will rise first.
Is this spiritually dead or physically dead?
How are the dead in Christ raised?
What does it mean to be raised in I Cor 15:42, 43?
- How are we “who are alive” changed (I Cor 15:52)?
What is the relationship between perishable and mortal with imperishable and immortality?
- Does God carry out his judgment at the GWT in absentia or do we need to be present for the GWT (Rev 20:11-15, Heb 9:27, Rom 14:10 2 Cor 5:10)
- Do you see Rev 21, 22 a return to the Garden with the mentioning of the “Tree of Life”?
If in the NHE is a “restoration of all things,” and where “all things are made new” (Rev 21:5)
Did the HE pass away in order for the NHE to come?
When did it happen, or has it happened? (Isa 51:6, Matt 5:18, 2 Peter 3:10, Rev 20:11, Rev 21:1)
- Do you believe Christ did (will) appear at his coming? (Zech 14:4; Acts 1:11; I Thess 4:16; 2 Thess 2:8: John 3:2, I John 2:28
What does epiphaneia mean?
The Old Covenant Ended at the Cross
Bonus Question: In I Time 2:6 Paul says that Jeus gave his life as a ransom for many. (Matt 20:28) – literally, the ransom-money (price) to free a slave. 3083 (lýtron) is used in the NT of the ultimate “liberty-price” – the blood of Christ which purchases (ransoms) believers, freeing them from all slavery (bondage) to sin.
Rom 3:24 (8:23; 1 Cor 1:30; Eph 1:7,14, 4:30, Col 1:14, Heb 9:15 11:35) uses the word redemption, concerning us as Christian, which means apolutrósis: a release effected by payment of ransom. apolýtrōsis(from 575 /apó, “from” and 3084 /lytróō, “redeem”) – properly, redemption – literally, “buying back from, re-purchasing (winning back) what was previously forfeited (lost).”
IF the ransom price for our redemption was paid for by the blood of Christ on the cross, and that Christ by his resurrection having the power and authority over death and the grave, explain why the captives in Hades were not set free in AD 33?
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Eph 4:8 … Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,
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