Substitutionary Atonement In Scripture

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales offers the reader an insight into our past, providing vivid glimpses into the 14th century's social structure, and into the personalities, lives, and ethics of twenty-eight members of that society drawn together to travel on a pilgrimage. The General Prologue to the Tales deals primarily with introducing these people to us, providing physical descriptions and character outlines of virtually each pilgrim; it is a tribute to Chaucer's skill that his descriptions (as filtered through the neurotically happy narrator) succeeds in creating such lively characters out of what are, essential, two-dimensional stereotypes from his era.

There is no one greater than Him, so if He is dishonored it is based off of His own assessment. There is no reason to send Jesus to die for this reason, and it does not make sense how the death of Jesus fixes this problem. I understand it is cleaning the sin, but there has to be a way that is not sending His son Jesus to die. This is a similar thought for the reformation version as well. If God is all powerful there had to be a different way than killing His son.

Throughout Christianity, theories of atonement are prevalent. The word atonement describes how humans can make right between them and God. The different atonement theories are explanations on the interpretations to how God saved us from sin. Jesus is the link that ties together humanity and God. There are multiple atonement theories because there is not a plain answer for why Jesus died.

In Christian theology, one of the some basic yet important doctrine is that of atonement. It is believed that Jesus through his death and resurrection saved the souls of humanity and took on the weight of humanity’s sins. However, though believed to have happen, how Jesus was able to accomplish this tremendous and history changing feet is only speculated. There are many theories, call the theories of salvation or atonement, that try to explain how Jesus was able to an achieve all that he did, but each theory has their pros and cons. One such theory is The Penal Substitution Theory. This theory states that Christ took humanities place in receiving punishment for our sins. In Hodge’s Systematic Theology Volume ii he explains

Atonement, Christology, and the Trinity: Making Sense of Christian Doctrine is a book that is written by Professor Vincent Brummer talked about Christian doctrines which talked mostly about reconciliation between people and God. People need to reconcile with God, since many people has separated from God. People also can only find ultimate happiness in God, because as human we are limited. God is mysterious to us, because of our limited knowledge. We can know God, because He revealed Himself to us.

He started by defining the word Redemption, which means to buy back or ransom. Human suffering, when united with Christ’s, can remit punishment due to sin. This is not connected to forgiveness. Divine justice requires that the original goodness which existed prior to the offense must be restored. We may be forgiven of our sins, but there is still damage which must be repaired.

Having learned biblical imagery for salvation, and how it is to be understood, we now look how these themes have been analyzed within Christian tradition. It is stated in the Salvation chapter of Theology The Basics that “This area of Christian theology is traditionally described as “theories of atonement.” The two theories I will be comparing are Anslem’s theory which is The cross & forgiveness, and Augustine of Hippo’s theory, the cross as a sacrifice. While some similarities between the two theories are evident, the differences are notable.

When Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, sin entered the world and that which was once good became corrupted. From that moment, we were separated from God. Yet because we were made in His image and He love us so much, He gave up his one and only son to die on the cross for our sins. One of God’s attributes is His benevolence, which means that He loves and cares about all His creation. He is also merciful, which means that He is very compassionate and tender-hearted towards us. I mention these specific attributes to emphasize the fact that these attributes were also present in the person of Christ. Jesus said, “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9), meaning that if we want to personally “know the love, the holiness, the power

In surveying the theological plain of Christianity regarding the atoning work of Christ, one is made aware of the scope of theories ascribed to it. Many of these theories can be attributed to heresy and rightly denied with a simple cursory look within the pages of Scripture. However, where such ideas can be dismissed, there remain two viewpoints readily opposed to one another in the extent of the atonement which dominates the landscape beyond any national border. Because of these two opposing ideologies, one must take a step back in order to reassert the groundwork in laying the foundation which leads to said viewpoints. Doing so would help in obtaining a correct understanding to be able to bring forth more clarity to a sometimes cloudy debate. As such, the need or necessity of the atonement must be addressed in asking why Christ had to die for man 's sin. The answer to this will in turn lend itself in determining the nature of the atonement, which looks at what Christ accomplished on the cross that makes salvation possible. The summation of these will direct the course to what the extent of the atonement asserts, perhaps the major crux or delineation within the Protestant church. Indeed, "[t]here are few doctrines which have received such a wide and variegated interpretation as the extent of the atonement," to the point that it "becomes so burdened with abstruse terminology that it can be utterly unintelligible, even to those who ostensibly promulgate its virtues."

All the humans fail the God’s law as a consequence we feel shame and disqualify us from God’s mercy and walk away from our calling because we do not know about his grace. God is aware of our sin before we are saved and it does not stop him to love us. Jesus is the one that can breakthrough our weakness and restores our confidence in God. To live this truth I need to commit with my self to obey God, to repent from my sins, and allow Jesus to clean me from my weakness, discipline me and believe that God forgives and loves me even though he knows the darkness of my heart

The word “Atonement” is frequently used in the Old Testament. Nevertheless, in regards to the New Testament, the King James Version of the Bible mentions “Atonement,” only once, which is found in (Rom. 5:11.) Furthermore, other versions, such as, the NRSVA, NIV, ASV and others uses the word “Reconciliation” as an alternative. Perhaps, when one seeks the etymology and the meaning of the word, this phrase simply can be seen as at-one-ment, which can be translated as the state of oneness of two who had been alienated from each other, or reconciled, in other words, two entities, in this case, God and humanity who was separated once, together again. In reality, atonement is reconciliation. Thus, it is used to denote the effect that resulted from the death of Christ on the Cross of Calvary.

Once we recognize God’s true love for us and see the need of looking to Christ to change our hearts rather than trying to do it on our own, we see our need of repentance, which involves a change of direction, turning our back on previous intentions and actions, and seeking new direction in life. Instead of making excuses, blaming circumstances or others, repentance means taking full responsibility. King David, after committing murder and adultery appealed to Christ: "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me" (Psalms 51:10). He accepted his guilt and asked for a new direction – from Christ.

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Atonement by Ian McEwan 1. Some key events of Atonement are- • Briony sees her sister and her sister’s boyfriend out the window. Briony thinks something bad is happening, but her sister is only swimming into the pond to find parts of a broken vase. • Briony realizes that she doesn’t want her play to be performed so she rips up the poster of her play and stops rehearsing it. • Robbie accidently gives Briony the letter for Cecilia that tells of his sexual desire for her instead of the one that tells how sorry he is for breaking the vase.

According to Romans 6:23, Adam’s transgression would have caused man to forever be separated from God. There needed to be a way to overcome death; a way that could only come about through the “vicarious sacrifice of one who was sinless and who could therefore take upon Himself the sins of all mankind” (Ballard). Blessedly, Jesus Christ courageously sacrificed and created this way for all people. Not only is Jesus Christ a solution to Adam’s transgression, but He is the only solution to Adam’s transgression. No one else could have successfully performed the Atonement. I am forever grateful for the anguish that Jesus Christ willingly suffered in order to give me and everyone else the ability to live with Him again. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is so