Lectures on the Atonement - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1161679413 ISBN 13 : 9781161679410

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Atonement is certainly the greatest topic that can occupy our thoughts, because it is the central feature of God s Fatherhood, the central purpose of the life of Jesus Christ, the central object of the ceaseless and unsleeping energy of God the Holy Spirit in the Church. We will begin with the plain meaning of the word. I know no cause to doubt the simple derivation that Atonement is A t-one-ment the removal of all hindrances to perfect unity.1 That is the problem God has set before Himself to solve. Dis cord has somehow or another, perhaps from some necessity of things unknown to us or dimly under stood by us, intruded on the life of His great universe ;and He has set Himself to win back every1 The Hebrew word translated by Atonement means covering that which covers our sins from the eyes of an A ll-seeing God. The Greek word translated Atonement (R om. v. 11) is KaraAA cryT) that is, exchange, or change of condition ;but the English equivalent rightly describes the nature of the change suggested as being change from enmity to God to unity with Him, or reconciliation. A kindred word, t Aao-s, means propitiation by sacrifice, and airov Tpu(ris means redemption from captivity by purchase.
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• ISBN 10: 1161679413
• ISBN 13: 9781161679410
• Reliure: Relié