Colt
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Melchizedek attempted to get people away from Blood Sacrifice by substituting "bread and wine".No it is not news to Jesus. He did say that He is giving His life as a ransom for many and He did say that His blood is the blood of the New Covenant. You can ignore what Jesus said if you want I guess. It's up to you.
If you want Jesus to be nothing more than a messenger from the Father to tell people to have faith in the Father that is your business.
I don't think it is a good thing to ignore that however and make up your own theories about what the gospel should have been. It is what it is.
No doubt God would have loved it if the Jews had obeyed the laws and He would have loved it if Adam had not sinned and etc etc. God works with what He has and brings good out of situations even if the bad situations are ultimately the result of the devil's work in the world.
When you say that the original gospel of Jesus was contaminated by old ideas. If you mean the old ideas that God gave to the Jews about sacrifice and the old ideas that God put in the words of the prophets about someone who would suffer and be killed to bear our sins, then yes the Gospel is completely contaminated with those ideas and they are God's ideas.
It is God who tells us how things are and what He is doing. If we don't like it then we can come to the Father as the Jews do, without the intercession of Jesus the High Priest in the order of Melchizedek who was appointed by His Father and offered His own life as sacrifice.
Genesis 14:19-19
"Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High — and he blessed Abram and said......"
I don't think its a good to root for the death of Jesus on the cross along with the devil because you cant face your own sins.
Jesus never used the word intercession either.
The reason that Jesus was misremembered saying he was a "ransom" , which was in conflict with his beat-down of those who plotted to kill him, is because Paul's Atonement preaching influenced recollection the writing of the Gospels.
43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message. 44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies. 45But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!