“Desafortunadamente, hay mucha superstición y confusión sobre el significado de la sangre de Cristo. Un popular libro escrito hace varios años por un autor evangélico conocido sugiere que hay algo único acerca de la química de la sangre de Cristo. Supuso que la sangre de Cristo no era sangre humana. En cambio, dijo, la sangre que corre por las venas de Jesús era la sangre de Dios. Otros cristianos han mal interpretado canciones conocidas acerca de la sangre de Cristo (como «Hay poder en la sangre» o «Hay una fuente sin igual de sangre»). Se imaginan que hay alguna característica sobrenatural en la sangre de Cristo que lo hace espiritualmente poderosa. Algunos incluso suponen que la sangre literal de Cristo se aplica por algunos medios místicos a cada creyente en la conversión, y después se recoge de nuevo para que pueda ser aplicada continuamente y vuelta a aplicar. Mucha gente cree que solo mencionar la sangre de Cristo es un poderoso medio de sofocar la actividad demoníaca como un abracadabra cristiano. Ideas fantasiosas como las que surgen de la misma forma de pensar supersticioso dio lugar a la idea de la transubstanciación. Cuando las Escrituras dicen que somos redimidos por la sangre de Cristo, no debemos pensar que su plasma o glóbulos tienen alguna propiedad sobrenatural. Su sangre era la sangre humana normal, al igual que todo su cuerpo era totalmente humano en todos los aspectos. El «poder en la sangre» que cantamos reside en la expiación que Él realizó mediante el derramamiento de su sangre, no en el líquido en sí. Así que cuando la Biblia habla acerca de la sangre de Cristo, se utiliza la expresión como una metonimia de su muerte expiatoria.”
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John F. MacArthur, Jr. is a fifth-generation preacher who serves as a pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is also a prolific author, conference speaker, and is president of The Master's College and Seminary. MacArthur received a B.A. from Los Angeles Pacific College, his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary, Litt.D. at Grace Graduate School, and D.D. from Talbot Theological Seminary. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he regularly teaches Expository Preaching at the seminary and frequently speaks in chapel.
MacArthur's pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You, and its satellite offices in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, audiotapes, and CDs by John MacArthur. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes.
John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr. is a United States evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969, and as the President of The Master's College (and the related The Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.
Theologically, MacArthur is a conservative far-right Baptist, a strong proponent of expository preaching, a dispensationalist and a self-described Calvinist. He has been acknowledged by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time, and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live as representative of an evangelical Christian perspective.
MacArthur has authored or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold Medallion Book Award. Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series (more than 1 million copies), Twelve Ordinary Men, (more than 500,000 copies), and the children's book A Faith to Grow On, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award.