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The Scapegoat Who Finally Removes All Our Sin – Part Two
The four Gospels describe in specific detail how Jesus died during the Passover Feast, not [...]
The Scapegoat Who Finally Removes All Our Sin, Part One
I hear numerous objections to what I’ve proposed about how to understand the atoning sacrifice [...]
The Cruciform God
When the concept of the atonement is primarily understood as divine forgiveness we have been [...]
The Depth & Extent of God’s Forgiveness Displayed in the Atonement – Part 2
Over the centuries theologians have developed numerous models for expressing the saving significance of Jesus' [...]
The Depth and Extent of God’s Forgiveness is Displayed in the Atonement – Part 1
Yesterday I wrote about atonement as forgiveness. I showed that there truly is a substitionary [...]
The Atonement and the Grace of Forgiveness
If you follow the idea of atonement that I began to develop yesterday, namely that [...]
Atonement Demands a Payment
The Scriptures seem to be fairly clear in their teaching about the death of Christ [...]
What Does Christ’s Victory Mean for Understanding His Death?
The New Testament is filled with material concerning the victory of Christ over the powers [...]
How the Enlightenment Took the Church Away from Jesus & Him Crucified
The ancient church did not debate ideas about “appeasing the wrath of God through Christ’s [...]
The Danger of a Book-oriented Approach to Faith
The Book-oriented approach to Christian faith, an approach that became particularly central during the Enlightenment, [...]
Ancient-Future Faith: What Has It to Do with the Atonement?
The Holy Spirit seems to be working new convictions –based on ancient ideas about God, [...]
How Shall We Understand the Atonement?
It must be stated, before we even consider several of the ways Christians have traditionally [...]
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