Ok, that is the nature of multifaceted reality, it's hard to convey head on so, I'll try from an approach from another angle. If you are at a position that you do not believe a thing, then you must have come to the conclusion that it is impossible because if you left open the possibility of it you, generally speaking, would say something like, "I don't know" or "I haven't thought about that really, I just try so and so who told me what I should think..." I mean, a lot more people do that than would admit, with all sincerity and respect toward the well-intentioned mentor. However, personally speaking, if someone said, "search that question out for yourself. I have confidence that you will discover the answer," then I would so much more appreciate not only their confidence that the answer can be found, but that it is not only possible for me to find but that he also believes I've been equipped with the ability to find it...
Oh bother, I'm afraid I might be going off into a tangent...
Oh yea, the question...
Is there any scenario would you believe possible that one man could satisfy the sin debt of another, assuming that you currently believe this to be impossible.
I'm Jewish and that is my perspective. One would have to provide evidence to convince me of anything that I believe contradicts what I believe to be scripture. If someone comes from a perspective that something cannot be definitively disproven and therefore it must be correct then by that standard ANYTHING can be true.
No person can accept the sins of another. This is stated by G-d unambiguously:
Exodus 32:30 - 35
30 It came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people: "You have committed a grave sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I will obtain atonement for your sin." 31 And Moses returned to the Lord and said: "Please! This people has committed a grave sin. They have made themselves a god of gold. 32 And now, if You forgive their sin But if not, erase me now from Your book, which You have written." 33 And the Lord said to Moses:
"Whoever has sinned against Me, him I will erase from My book!" 34 And now go, lead the people to [the place] of which I have spoken to you. Behold My angel will go before you. But on the day I make an accounting [of sins upon them], I will bring their sin to account against them." 35 Then the Lord struck the people with a plague, because they had made the calf that Aaron had made.
Deuteronomy 24:16
Fathers shall not be put to death because of sons, nor shall sons be put to death because of fathers; each man shall be put to death for his own transgression.
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul that sins, it shall die; a son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and a father shall not bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Jeremiah 31:28 - 29
28 In those days, they shall no longer say, "Fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the teeth of the children shall be set on edge." 29
But each man shall die for his iniquity; whoever eats the unripe grapes- his teeth shall be set on edge.
G-d also calls human sacrifice an abomination:
Deuteronomy 12:30 - 31
30 Beware, lest you be attracted after them, after they are exterminated from before you; and lest you inquire about their gods, saying, "How did these nations serve their gods? And I will do likewise." 31 You shall not do so to the Lord, your God; f
or every abomination to the Lord which He hates, they did to their gods,
for also their sons and their daughters they would burn in fire to their gods.
Jeremiah 19:4 - 5
4 Because they forsook Me and they estranged this place and burnt incense therein to other gods, which they had not known, they, their forefathers, and the kings of Judah, and they filled this place with the blood of innocent people. 5 And they built the high places of Baal to burn their children with fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command, neither did I speak nor did it enter My mind.
Ezekiel 16:20 - 23
20 Then you took your sons and your daughters that you bore for Me, and you slaughtered them for them to eat. Were your harlotries a trivial matter, 21 That you
slaughtered My children and gave them over by passing them over to them? 22 And with all your
abominations and your harlotries, you did not remember the days of your youth; when you were naked and bare, and you were downtrodden in your blood. 23 What will be after
all your evil? Woe, woe is to you, says the Lord God.
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