Quotes About Atonement

Wrath is the divine reaction to sin. Atonement is necessary because human beings stand under the wrath and judgment of God. "Unless we give real content to the wrath of God, unless we hold that men really deserve to have God visit upon them the painful consequences of their wrongdoing, we empty God's forgiveness of its meaning.

In such instances a person serves not only as a representative but is acting in the stead of the other. In such passages as 2 Corinthians 5:15, "He died for all," and Galatians 3:13 where it is said that Christ became a curse on our behalf, the idea of substitution is demanded and "only violence to the context can get rid of it.

Furthermore, unless Jesus had some interpretation for his own death, it is difficult to explain how the theology of atonement arose in the early church. Long ago, Schweitzer criticized Wrede's nonmessianic theory on the grounds that resurrection would never constitute Jesus as Messiah in the mind of the church,5 and the validity of this criticism still stands.

No more could belief in Jesus' resurrection have caused the church to attribute atoning value to his death. The source of a theology of Jesus' death must go back to Jesus himself.

There's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

Victoria leaned forward. "Never trust an altruist. Humans are selfish creatures. The only people who give away money either haven't earned it or are trying to buy prestige or absolution with it. She has prestige. What has she done that she needs to atone so badly?

You're always wanting to be forgiven. What do you want to be forgiven for?

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Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

It's not a punishment. It's the place where mercy and justice meet.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

I let a lot of people down, and for that I am truly sorry.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.

No, matter how sinful we are there is a way to repent.

Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins?

My sin is my shame.

The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking a glass. It can't unbreak. The best you can do it sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.

The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking a glass. It can't unbreak. The best you can do is sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.

Nos péchés sont têtus, nos repentirs sont lâches.

Nos peches sont tetus, nos repentirs sont laches; Nous nous faisons payer grassement nos aveux (33-34)