Septuagint

In the first few centuries of Christianity there was no book equivalent to the modern Bible. The earliest Christians adopted the Septuagint as their scripture and this later became what is known today as the Old Testament. A few decades after Jesus’ death the early Christians began “composing gospels, letters, sermons, apocalypses, and other text, which were attributed to apostles or…

talk with Nicodemus, the representation of Jesus as the Lamb of God and the Shepherd of his sheep, etc. Next we also see the atonement in Paul’s epistles. In Romans Paul pictures Jesus as the propitiation for our sins. Propitiation is a word in the Septuagint was used to describe the mercy seat of the ark of covenant under the two cherubim’s out stretched wings. The blood of the slain animal was sprinkled on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant to atone for the sins of the people in the Old…