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Accepting

the Lord

Not once, in the 57 times the words appear in the scripture do we find God offering

anything to man for man to accept or reject. You would think that with the almost
universal teaching that Christ has been offered to men to be either accepted or
rejected by men that the scriptures would plainly teach that Christ is offered to be
accepted or rejected of men. However, not one verse of scripture in the bible presents

Christ as being offered to man to be accepted or rejected.

The words; offer, offering, offered, offereth, appear in the scriptures 726 times. Ap-
proximately 99% of the time the offerings were to God and were made to be accepted

or rejected by God. About 1% of the time the offerings were made to false gods or to
appease other men. Not once is there mention of these word in connection with God
offering anything to man. Based on this, it would appear that God never made an
offering to man. However, we are told over and over again that God has offered the

sacrificial atonement of Christ to us to be accepted or rejected with the consequence
that we would gain salvation if we accept and that we would be condemned to eternal
hell if we rejected the offering. Yet this principle is strangely absent from biblical
teaching.