God put Jesus Christ forward
as an expiation in his blood (Romans 3:25).
Just as sin is known as both guilt and bondage, so salvation is received
as both expiation and deliverance.
This interpretation of the scriptures and understanding of Christian anthropology gave Christian spirituality a view of God as a harsh judge who wanted the sacrifice of the life of Jesus
as expiation and atonement for the sins of humanity.
As St Paul says: «Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by His grace as gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, Whom God put forward
as an expiation by His Blood.
Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ, whom God put forward
as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith Martin Luther believed that the theology of this text was...
Not exact matches
Two new kinds of sacrifice of major importance were added after the Exile the trespass - offering, a sacrifice of restitution either for wrong done to man or
as tribute due to Yahweh, and the sin - offering, an
expiation for the unwitting guilt of the people.
[13] The inversion from the usual «flesh and blood» is probably designed to emphasise the role of blood in the
expiation of Jesus
as high priest in 2,17.
«The refusal to regard the dispersion of the Jews
as a divinely decreed
expiation or a form of divine discipline»; and 3.
I prefer to conceptualize Christianity in this exemplary resurrectional fashion,
as did many of the Greek Fathers, rather than in the crude Roman legalistic sense of sin - punishment - vicarious
expiation, so popular with the African Fathers and particularly with Tertullian, the proto - canon lawyer, God help him.
Christ
as both priest and victim (
as in the letter to the Hebrews) provides
expiation for man's sin.
[7] St. John sees Christ's death
as «the
expiation for our sins.»
The old Roman Rite, which emerged from a long tradition, was understood
as the sacramental offering by the priest, acting in the Person of Christ, which He offered on the Cross to his Father in
expiation for the sins of the world.
The priest acts in the Person of Christ in so far
as He exercises His Mercy towards men by offering Himself to the Father in sacrifice for the
expiation for their sins.
This doctrine holds that healing functions
as evidence of
expiation; therefore, whoever has not been cured also has not been pardoned for his sins.
Donald Dayton observes that, in the development of North American Pentecostalism, the doctrine of «healing
as part of
expiation» (Dayton, p. 6) played an important role.
Men do what is called a good action,
as some piece of courage or charity, much
as they would pay a fine in
expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.