Vicarious Atonement Through Christ

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L. Berkhof.

A Central Doctrine in Eclipse Atonement central in the Christian religion. CHRISTIANITY is pre-eminently a religion of redemption. It proceeds on the assumption that man's relation was disturbed by the entrance of sin in

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numbers, and was supplanted by other views in the teaching, not

only of creedless Churches, but even of some which still claim adherence to one or more of the great historic Confessions. In his Introduction to Remensnyder's work on The Atonement and Modern Thought, p. XVI, Dr. Warfie

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14. He admits that it is not easy to give a simple and clear answer to

the question, "What was the object of the sin-offerings if not penal satisfaction?" Theories respecting the O. T. sacrifices. Various theories have been broached as to the fundamental character of the Old Testament sacri

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432. And Dr. David Smith chimes in with this when he says: "The

theory (of penal substitution) represents Christ as 'reconciling God to sinners'; and this is precisely the reverse of the New Testament representation. 'Reconciliation' is a Pauline term, and, with a persistence and pre

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3. Neither is it, whether the atonement actually effectuates or at least

-- 88 of 112 -- insures the salvation of all men, since this extreme position is taken only by absolute Universalists, which are few in number and take little account of the teachings of Scripture. On the basis of the l

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52. Paul admonishes the Ephesian elders "to feed the Church of the

Lord which He purchased with His own blood," Acts 20:28. The same truth, that Christ gave Himself for the Church, is also taught in Eph. 5:25. In verse 23 He is specifically called "the Saviour of the body, that, is, of