Quotes About Atonement

We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He has disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed. Any theories we build up as to how Christ's death did all this are, in my view, quite secondary: mere plans or diagrams to be left alone if they do not help us, and, if they do help us, not to be confused with the thing itself.

There are things about the Jewish religion that I carry with me to this day. Chief among them is Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, as it's so happily called. It had a profound effect on my innocent young mind. The service opens with the organ playing "Kol Nidre," one of the spookiest pieces of music ever written. You hear it and literally are surprised bats and shit aren't flying around.

Why is this important? Because it means the division between God and man has been abolished. Vanished. How? Because the great Jehovah, the One whose name may only be whispered once each year by the anointed high priest, had sent—yes, sent—his Son to be crucified. Why? How could the eternal Lord of all do such a thing?

I'll die for your sins if you live for mine.

a wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him.

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

Anyone who started a quarrel had to atone for it by buying a dish of coffee for everyone present.

the crucifixion of Jesus, while violent, must be the key to ending violence.

this: The work of atonement that is accomplished on the cross is one of invitation into the eternal, loving relationship of the Trinity—ultimately, into union with God.

I, too, want to advocate for a theological stance that takes a pastiche approach. Each of the theories above, and the one below, come from a certain context. Each was developed in order to solve a contemporary problem with the atonement. Each did that, albeit imperfectly. So I'd like us to embrace them all, realizing their shortcomings.

God cannot be bound by a law, a moral code, a universal sense of justice, or a "deep magic from the dawn of time." God could have forgiven us of our sin however God wanted too—with or without the execution of his son.

But without sin there can be no forgiveness.

The ministry of John the Baptist where he passed-on all the sins of the people of this world onto Jesus was truly a righteous act. This is the gospel of the atonement for sins, the righteousness of God, and the way toward salvation John witnessed. In order for us to receive salvation, we must realize and believe in our hearts both Jesus' baptism and His shed blood, and His resurrection, which makes up the gospel of the atonement for sins.

Jesus completed our salvation by taking-on the sins of the entire world through the baptism He received from John the Baptist, and dying on the Cross, after atoned for all these sins.

In the Old Testament, the sacrificial animal received the passing-on of the sins of people by receiving the laying of both hands (Leviticus 16:21).

In other words, through this baptism, John the Baptist passed all the sins of this world onto the body of Jesus Christ who is the Lamb of God.

and thereby thoroughly understand the whole truth of the remission of sin of the true atonement.

Therefore, the phrase, "For thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness," means that "it is fitting that I take-on all the sins of mankind, in the most fitting way or method, you performing baptism on Me and I received the baptism from you all.

The gospel of the atonement for sins as mentioned in the Bible and as witnessed by the Apostles, tells us that Jesus had taken away all the sins of the world.

Likewise, Jesus Christ the Son of God came to this earth and opened the age of the New Testament, by shouldering the sins of the world without a single trace of sin left behind, in order to atone for all the sins of all of humankind.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.