Hi gallenwalsh,
Here is an email to help with this.
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php?topic=4163.0 -------
I realized that “For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin” can only be grammatically correct if the second ‘sin’ is used metaphorically, thus making it not a literal fact. Otherwise it is a bad translation (which it is).
It’s interesting to note that, even though they have that translation in their definitions, the bible study still uses the “to be sin” in their lessons.
May God bless you and yours.
Mike
Dear Mike:
NO, "He treated Him who knew not sin as a sinner…..." is a horrible translation. God never treated His Son "AS IF" He were a sinner, seeing that He NEVER DID SIN! "Sin OFFERING" is the proper translation, not based on the singular word "sin" from which it is taken, but based on the KNOWLEDGE OF HOWS LANGUAGE IS USED. We have a plethora of proof from the Old Testament that "sin" MUST be translated "sin OFFERING," in many Scriptures, and that is why it was translated "sin offering" in many Scriptures. But in II Cor. 5:20, the Translators dropped the ball and did not do what they surely knew was the proper way to translate it, but since they were working with Greek rather than Hebrew, they let it slide.
I have about 30 pages of notes on this subject and I will turn it into a full article in the near future, so look for it. There are many, many, Scriptural proofs against the damnable heresy that Jesus Himself was the personification of sin and that His Father was displeased with Him, and that He was marred in His Fathers hands, and had to be crushed and ground to powder all the days of His life, and that God thus poured out His anger, indignation and wrath against His Son, and that Jesus' blood was no different and no better than ours. I will blow this damnable teaching right out of the sky!
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Here is the link to the Bible study he was referring to.
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,6719.0.htmlmercy, peace and love
Kat