Category: Atonement
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Moffitt… atonement in heaven
Recently, David Moffitt, formerly of Duke and Campbell university divinity schools in the States and now a Senior Lecturer at St Andrews university Scotland, published a book entitled ‘Rethinking the Atonement: ‘New perspectives on the death, resurrection and ascension of Christ’. It expands a previous book he published , ‘Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection…
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the mercy seat
The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as…
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romans 8:1-4 the righteous requirement of the law fulfilled in us
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own…
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definite atonement
I know some will disagree with the contention in this post. That’s fine. Christians may disagree agreeably over lots of things. I wish to simply lay out the basics of why I believe the sacrifice of our Lord was not only universal in extent but also specific in intent. My focus is not on the…
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the glory of the cross
Est 6:6 (ESV) … the king said… , “What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honour?” The story is set in Susa, the Persian capital, during the reign of King Ahasuerus, better known by his Greek name, Xerxes I (486–464 b.c.). Some Jews had returned to Jerusalem, where they enjoyed a…
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the righteousness of god in the gospel (2)
Our previous post argued that when Paul speaks of ‘the righteousness of God revealed in the gospel’ (Roms 1:17) he means precisely that; in the gospel God reveals himself acting righteously, that is, acting consistently with all he is in himself (Roms 3:21-26). Among the ways God reveals himself acting righteously is in declaring righteous those…
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imputed active obedience (IAO), a must or a misdirection? (12)
The intention of the last couple of posts (here and here) on this topic has been to demonstrate that the Bible does not support the reformed construct of IAO. We have seen that the OT knows nothing of a law-keeping life lived on behalf of another. In the OT, when the law is broken only…
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imputed active obedience (IAO), a must or a misdirection? (11)
I return, after a few weeks gap, to the topic of IAO. NT Wright has a gripe with conservative evangelicals (among whom I firmly place myself). His gripe is that too often we approach theology through thought categories of the C16,17 reformation rather than through those of the Bible. Now I don’t always agree with…
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trueman on nietzsche on christianity
It was Nietzsche who declared that what is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons. What he did not realise was that he was prophetically speaking about Christians at least as much as atheists. Found here.
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let this cup pass from me…
Christ came as one truly human and part of humanity (born of the woman). Yet he was different from Adamic humanity in all manner of ways. Not only is his humanity that of a divine person but it was a humanity neither innocent nor fallen. Adam was created in innocence. He had not the knowledge…
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imputed active obedience (IAO), a must or a misdirection? (10)
The Bible and IAO. My intention in the next few posts is to demonstrate that the Bible locates justification in the infinitely valuable death of Christ and his subsequent resurrection without reference to IAO. Indeed, I hope to show that IAO is not only absent but does not fit as presented into the biblical contours…
Cave Adullam 