The title is a Portuguese phrase that means, "Out of the Ordinary". Surely salvation is an out of the ordinary experience. A Holy God allows a lost, blind, hopeless, sinner to enter into an eternal relationship with Him. Does that make sense? Not really. However, it is Além do Normal. It is heaven sent. It was conceived in eternity past (cf. Ephesians 1:3) and will never be completely understood. It is something that no one merits, but is given freely by Grace. Why? Because God loved us so much that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to pay what we owed. For divine justice and in divine love Jesus died. For that reason we can say, "Thank You Father!"
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. Gen 3:21 I have always heard the following explanation of this verse. Because Adam and Eve had sinned, they died spiritually. They also lost the right to be in the Garden of Eden and were cursed in other ways. For example, they had made clothes out of fig leaves, but God sacrificed a lamb; thus, God shed blood and made clothes. This sacrifice of an innocent lamb symbolized what Jesus Christ would do in the distant future. Is this what you have heard? I don't know; it seems like this interpretation is stretching what Moses wrote in the above text. The text says that God made clothes for Adam and his wife from skins. We see no blood, we don't know what kind of skins, nor can I imagine God making an animal sacrifice. Did God have to skin animals to make these clothes? Or could he have just made them like he had everything else in the universe just a little while earlier? To th...
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