Sentences with phrase «without atonement»

Even when the acquisition was wrongful, the dispossession, after a generation has elapsed, of the probably bonâ fide possessors, by the revival of a claim which had been long dormant, would generally be a greater injustice, and almost always a greater private and public mischief, than leaving the original wrong without atonement.

It was new birth without bodily resurrections and forgiveness without atonement.

Without the atonement, all people would be lost.

Not exact matches

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

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.

I read your post (but not the book, yet) on the non-violent atonement, and I am unsure how to understand verses such as «Without the shedding of blood there is no remission» in the light of your «non-violent» concept; it's unclear to me.

It was not without reason that 19th - century liberal theologians revolted en mass against the orthodox Anselmian doctrine of atonement that taught that the only ultimately compelling reason for Christ's coming was that he might suffer his substitutionary, sacrificial, expiating, even propitiating death.

Israel's God requires nothing; He creates, elects, and sanctifies without need — and so the Atonement offering can in no way contribute to any sort of economy.

The Messiah, Jesus, would be the one who would die for the sins of the world and without that death there would be no atonement.

Anyone who thinks theology is boring should read your new book, «The Atonement of God,» which is without a doubt the best book I have read on the topic.

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.

Since Paul made no reference to it elsewhere, and since the passage can be read better without the connotations of atonement, that evidence is lacking.

Recently, however, several scholars have looked at the text without this idea of atonement in mind and have read it quite differently.

The whole point of the Christian doctrine of Atonement is that God can not be merciful without fulfilling within himself, and on man's behalf, the requirements of divine justice.

He who beateth his slave without fault, or slappeth him in the face, his atonement for this is freeing him.

But as I urged above, it would be wrong (in my judgment) to try to interpret all this too literally and logically; Prof. Hartshorne was right, I said, in saying that the symbol of the divine Triunity, like the «incarnation» and «atonement» as symbols, is much more appropriately retained as a symbol, as imaginative proclamation; it can then retain its indicative and suggestive value without our seeking to phrase it in the idiom of some particular philosophy or world view.

«But can't you do all that without sacrificing belief in Jesus» divinity and in the universal power of his atonement?»

While hymns covered just about every subject, those which found particular favor in nineteenth century America were based on a personal experience of Jesus and the gospel, particularly in regard to faith («Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine»), the atonement of Jesus («When I Survey the Wondrous Cross»), confession («Just As I Am, Without One Plea»), dedication («Nearer, My God, to Thee»), following Jesus» example («Saviour, Like a Shepherd Lead Us»), and salvation («Amazing Grace!

You could tell someone to believe in Jesus for everlasting life without ever mentioning sin, spiritual death, a substitutionary atonement since these are just fluff or evidences yet they might be a stumbling block so if you just harp on eternal life isn't that neglecting the death and resurrection.

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.

McAvoy, on his best form since Atonement, performs what might be the most dangerous balancing act by a leading man this year, teetering crazily between repugnant and pathetic without ever passing through likeable, and yet somehow never loses you in the process.