Sentences with phrase «making atonement»

Drs. John and Julie Gottman have developed an approach to recovering from affairs that begins with the «betrayer» making atonement for the affair as the first step in rebuilding trust and re-investing in the marriage.

Observe that the priest and the whole house of the priests is not exempt from the necessity of making atonement (v. 6, in the original prescription).

Dare we discern anything so outrageous as the idea that here God is making an atonement toward man for all that his desired creation costs man in the making: that he was making love's amends to all those who feel, and have felt, that they can not forgive God for all the pains which life has foisted, unwanted, upon them?

17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.

28And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin»» (Lev.

Same as He became a high priest, perfect and sinless so that He doesn't have to make an atonement for his sins and once again, he is forever alive so that there is no need for another priest.

They were the ones who made atonement for sins and interceded between us and God.

Jesus our scapegoat, made atonement for the sins of His people, so that they may be righteous before the Father in Christ.

Yes, this pointed to the cross but it was also a statement that God will make atonement.

We can see that this might make sense to someone brought up in the ancient Jewish tradition in which an unblemished animal was sacrificed to God to make atonement for the sins of the people, and in which the iniquities of Israel were all put on the head of a goat which was then driven out into the wilderness, taking the people's sins with it.

In sum, Jesus» nonresistance was theologically motivated, to fulfill prophecy, to make atonement; it was not ethically motivated, to do the right thing.

The cross removed the barrier between a holy Cod and sinful human beings, made atonement, gave access into that grace in which we stand.

«25 Further, he wished to reopen this debate in order to make the Atonement achieve and retain cultural relevance.

... Leviticus 17:11 «For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement (I do get the inference that bringing other things up, opens up a whole new can of worms every time, so to speak); on the other hand, it is true today that God does not want our blood.

To refine the point, blood sacrifice is required for atonement, cf. Lv 17:11: «For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.»

According to them, He made atonement by sweating blood in the Garden of Gesthemane, and it will only help pay for our sins after it's been determined that we've done all we possibly could have to save ourselves through our good works.

Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

And the bullock of the sin - offering, and the goat of the sin - offering whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth without the camp; and they shall burn in fire their skins, and then their flesh and their dung.

The lanky striker made atonement for his error with a well taken goal in the 64th minute to reduce the deficit for his side, and in the process took his goal tally in the Dutch league to 4 goals in seven games.

Not exact matches

@ Concert: «I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»

Then God made me discover what I now consider real truth about unlimited atonement or universal salvation in Jesus Christ.

The founder of Oasis has a track record of making statements which rile many of those who self - identify as evangelicals (see Chalke's past comments on the atonement, the Bible and homosexuality).

By saying there is no room for «personal salvation» in your understanding of Jesus» teaching and then claiming that personal salvation gets us to the topic of atonement theory — what was it that you were wanting to say if not making a link between atonement theory and salvation?

The Bible portrays the Cross as a substitutionary atonement, an atonement made without conditions.

Rollie, I too have issues with atonement theory but I don't see the link you are making with Jesus» teaching on salvation with that.

Biblical ideas of atonement root back in this basic soil and stem out from it; and while the development later carried them to branches far distant from the roots, there is no understanding the topmost twig — for example, «as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive» --(I Corinthians 15:22.)

Sin requires substitution and atonement and blood, and God makes that very clear throughout all of scripture.

In light of this pattern, we can appreciate that the shed blood of Christ, the «Lamb of God,» made permanent atonement for mankind, and also made it possible for people to be ``... clothed with power from on high» (Luke 24:49).

I prefer to avoid the term «objective» in speaking of the Atonement, partly because of its obvious philosophical difficulties and partly because many theologians have assumed that the death of Christ can have objective efficacy only if it is an act directed either towards God, in satisfaction of his justice or in somehow making it possible for his love to operate for the forgiveness of sinners without compromising his holiness, or towards a personal devil in somehow liberating sinners from his clutches.

This may be because the accepted understanding of that aspect of the atonement makes this a both / and discussion rather than an either / or.

But modern ideas of justice to the individual were not in the background of the Old Testament's thought, and nowhere in the Bible does «atonement» mean what modern theologies, presupposing modern legal systems, have made it mean.

Leviticus 23: 27Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

The drama of divine incarnation and atonement ought not to be — as it has easily been — abstracted from the teaching of Jesus, his proclamation of God's kingdom made into an incidental preamble to the «deep» and «real» mystery of faith.

«Atonement», or «expiation», is about making reparation for a wrong or injury committed, specifically about reconciling sinful humanity to God.

Christ's whole life was a reconciling qurban: an approach to the Father, a real indwelling of God's glory in the temple of Christ's body, and an atonement made for a people enslaved to death.

The theories of the Atonement so far mentioned are all sometimes called «objective», which is to say that Jesus» death on the cross made an objective factual difference to sin and to human beings» relationship to God.

It really irks me that Piper and others have cast doubt on Wright's commitment to atonement when he makes it abundantly clear time and time again that he wholeheartedly embraces it, just with a different emphasis.

McCabe specifically identified the atonement of Jesus as the force that made freedom possible.

Eternal life, however, will show light on all things, and we must believe in God, and the saving power of the atonement made possible by Jesus Christ.

Judas is not the alter ego of Jesus because that would make Jesus a sinful human being and unfit to be the perfect atonement to God for our sin.

For example, if one breaks a word contract, that is, one made simply by word of mouth, he shall be beaten with six hundred stripes and his next of kin is answerable for his atonement.

You need blood atonement, and that was made provision for by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The interpretation of the atonement which makes most sense to me is a combination of Abelard's position, of God's exhibiting in act unfailing love for humanity, with what might be styled an ontological grounding, in the very structure and dynamic of the cosmos, for what was done in Christ.

Atonement is that working of love in which the meaning of being human is made plain.

God's creative action in history works in human language to make it the vehicle of truth instead of lies, and of reconciliation instead of hurt and destructive bitterness.14 In Jesus» work of atonement he spoke the words of forgiveness and reconciliation and he spoke them as indicatives and imperatives of the spirit.

The idea wasn't that the blood of bulls and goats somehow «appeased God,» the sacrificial system was foreshadowing the time when God Himself would make the ultimate atonement for sins.

It was not His fault that the world was made like this, and, unlike God the Father, He is friendly to man and did His best to reconcile man to God (see Atonement).

For Kierkegaard there is no «solution» to this paradox, other than the greater paradox of the God - man, who, without ever making the leap into sin, became sin for us, i.e., accepted his human solidarity with us, so that in him we might be reconciled with God through the Atonement.