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• Mediation of ChristDoctrine & Theology

  The mediation of Christ is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ stands between God and humanity, reconciles the two, and continues to intercede for believers. Protestants confess Christ as the sole mediator.

• 1 Timothy 2:5–6Bible Verses

  A passage stating that there is only one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all. It is frequently cited in discussions of Christ's unique mediation and the extent of the atonement.

• Hebrews 8Bible

  Hebrews 8 presents Jesus as the high priest who ministers in the heavenly sanctuary and as the mediator of a better covenant, and it quotes the new covenant prophecy to declare that the first covenant has been made old.

• Sinai CovenantBible

  The Sinai Covenant is the covenant God made at Mount Sinai with the people of Israel after the Exodus, with Moses serving as mediator. Centered on the Ten Commandments and the law, it established Israel as "a kingdom of priests."

• Catherine of SienaPeople

  Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) was a fourteenth-century Italian mystic and Dominican tertiary. Through her letters to popes and her work as a mediator, she urged the return of the papacy from Avignon to Rome and the unity of the church.

• Deuteronomy 5Bible

  Deuteronomy 5 is the chapter in which Moses recalls for Israel the covenant made at Mount Horeb, restates the Ten Commandments, and recounts how the people asked Moses to serve as their mediator.

• 1 Timothy 2Bible

  1 Timothy 2 is the chapter in which Paul addresses public prayer and order in the church's worship. It contains instructions on prayer for all people and for those in authority, on Christ as the one mediator, and on how men and women are to pray, adorn themselves, and learn.

• Hebrews 9Bible

  Hebrews 9 compares the tabernacle sacrifices of the first covenant with the sacrifice of Christ. The chapter teaches that Christ entered the heavenly sanctuary once for all by his own blood, obtained eternal redemption, and became the mediator of the new covenant.

• Hebrews 8:6–13Bible Verses

  Hebrews 8:6–13 is a passage in which the author of Hebrews quotes the "new covenant" prophecy of Jeremiah 31 to present Jesus Christ as the mediator of a better covenant than the first. It is frequently cited and discussed in treatments of the relationship between law and gospel and between the church and Israel.

• Job 9:32–33Bible Verses

  A passage in which Job laments that there is no "daysman," or arbiter, to decide between God and himself. Christian tradition often reads it as an expression of longing for Christ the Mediator, and the passage also raises questions of translation and textual tradition.

• 1 Timothy 2:4Bible Verses

  This verse states that God "will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." It is a perennial text in the debate between Calvinism and Arminianism over predestination, and interpreters differ over the meaning of "all men."