This is the first serious error of this paper. Our sins are literally taken away, when sin nature is literally taken away. Our transgressions are also literally taken away both at baptism, and after the judgment. Jesus was the reality of the symbols under the law, not just another symbol, in a long line of symbols. Bro. Roberts posed the question this way:

"If you say our sins were laid on him in the same way as they were laid on the sacrificial animals in the Mosaic system of things (which was a mere CEREMONIAL OR ARTIFICIAL IMPUTATIVENESS), how comes it that those sacrifices could never take away sins Heb. 10:2). And where then is the SUBSTANCE OF THE SHADOW? The ceremonial imposition of sins upon the animal was the type. The REAL putting of sin on the Lamb of God IN THE BESTOWAL OF A PREPARED SIN-BODY wherein to die, is the substance. (Chdn. 1873).

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