...I've been trying to think of who, among the characters of the tanakh, recieved individual pardons from YHWH. The first name that comes to mind is Noah. Among a multitude of people, he alone is said to have found grace in YHWH's sight. This grace seems to work for his family and so it may not qualify as an individual pardon. The Blanket pardon that YHWH seems to prefer, suggests that YHWH doesn't concern himself with individual sin, as much as with communal sin. The next person that I can think of, who seems to have gained an individual pardon, is David. Chapter 12 of II Samuel, tells the story of Nathan the prophet telling David that he has offended YHWH in taking Uriah's wife to himself. For this sin, YHWH did not make only David suffer, but he made his throne suffer with him. Even this pardon seems incomplete, because (II Sam. 12: 10) makes the debt of this sin, an everlasting debt.
10 Now therefore (*the sword shall never depart from thine house*); because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
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13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against YHWH. And Nathan said unto David, (*YHWH also hath put away thy sin*); thou shalt not die. YHWH spares the (--> life) of David, but does not completely pass over his sin.
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..."The sword shall never depart" from Davids house, seems like a sentence being given for an incompletely pardoned sin. But I must take YHWH at his word, that David sin is (*put away*) from YHWH. The next individual pardon that I can remember, belongs to Manasseh. II Chr. 33: 13 gives the account of Manasseh intreating YHWH through prayer and being returned to Jerusalem and to his throne afterwards. Perhaps others can add to this list of individual pardons. They do seem rare. The blanket pardon reigns as YHWH's chosen method of pardoning his people. After the Babalonian captivity, such a pardon was given. (Isa. 44:22) None of these people had to save their souls. Soul-saving seems out of place in the tanakh. So the New Testement represents a new aspect of YHWH's faith. The salvation of the tanakh is about saving the (*living persons*) that YHWH favors. The NT now makes its mantle, saving the (souls) of the people, far more important than saving their lives. The man, (jesus) does not play savior to the lives of Israel or to the tribe of Yahudah. He introduces something new. Because he can't, and didn't become a savior to the "living" of Israel, he now becomes the savior of the dieing in Israel. Well sort of anyway. He actually seems to fail in this venture also, if you ask the x-tians. {are JEWs saved?}Isn't the promised salvation which is to follow the Babylonian captivity, one of saving lives? Again and again, Isaiah talks of what is to become of Jacob's enemies, and how his people are to be redeemed. In part, this redemption is the fall of Babylon. I think that all of Israel was found righteous by YHWH, but the rest of the world hasn't caught on yet. This really reflects sorely on the claims of (jesus) to be any kind of messiah. He should have comforted his people and proclaimed their pardon from YHWH, as it is written. (Isa. 40: 1-3) But he instead, was the ambassador of destruction. (Lk. 19: 43, 44) Hasn't it occured to anyone, that people love their own salvation, more than they do righteousness? They still will not let the innocent go free. So, who is Pharaoh now?
....Michael
10 Now therefore (*the sword shall never depart from thine house*); because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
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13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against YHWH. And Nathan said unto David, (*YHWH also hath put away thy sin*); thou shalt not die. YHWH spares the (--> life) of David, but does not completely pass over his sin.
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..."The sword shall never depart" from Davids house, seems like a sentence being given for an incompletely pardoned sin. But I must take YHWH at his word, that David sin is (*put away*) from YHWH. The next individual pardon that I can remember, belongs to Manasseh. II Chr. 33: 13 gives the account of Manasseh intreating YHWH through prayer and being returned to Jerusalem and to his throne afterwards. Perhaps others can add to this list of individual pardons. They do seem rare. The blanket pardon reigns as YHWH's chosen method of pardoning his people. After the Babalonian captivity, such a pardon was given. (Isa. 44:22) None of these people had to save their souls. Soul-saving seems out of place in the tanakh. So the New Testement represents a new aspect of YHWH's faith. The salvation of the tanakh is about saving the (*living persons*) that YHWH favors. The NT now makes its mantle, saving the (souls) of the people, far more important than saving their lives. The man, (jesus) does not play savior to the lives of Israel or to the tribe of Yahudah. He introduces something new. Because he can't, and didn't become a savior to the "living" of Israel, he now becomes the savior of the dieing in Israel. Well sort of anyway. He actually seems to fail in this venture also, if you ask the x-tians. {are JEWs saved?}Isn't the promised salvation which is to follow the Babylonian captivity, one of saving lives? Again and again, Isaiah talks of what is to become of Jacob's enemies, and how his people are to be redeemed. In part, this redemption is the fall of Babylon. I think that all of Israel was found righteous by YHWH, but the rest of the world hasn't caught on yet. This really reflects sorely on the claims of (jesus) to be any kind of messiah. He should have comforted his people and proclaimed their pardon from YHWH, as it is written. (Isa. 40: 1-3) But he instead, was the ambassador of destruction. (Lk. 19: 43, 44) Hasn't it occured to anyone, that people love their own salvation, more than they do righteousness? They still will not let the innocent go free. So, who is Pharaoh now?
....Michael
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