The Lord’s Supper and the Atonement

I cannot but believe that, while this sacred institution continues in the church (as it will undoubtedly do to the end of the world), it will be impossible to root that doctrine out of the minds of plain, humble Christians by all the little artifices of such forced and unnatural criticisms as those by which [...]

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The Atonement

Christ, we believe, was one, in nature, with the Father.  His self-sacrificing love is God’s love.  Why, then, we ask, should God have needed this expiation?  Why should not free forgiveness have, simply, been announced as a word of God?  Or, to put it otherwise, if obedience, under the conditions of the sinful world, involved [...]

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