Atonement (Christ as Savior) Flashcards
Give a brief explanation of the teaching Scripture on atonement.
Christ receives punishment sinners deserve, this paying the penalty and restoring relationship with God
Colossians 1:20: and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”
Is there any limitation concerning who may benefit fro the atonement of Christ?
No-Hebrews 9:26-he died once for all
“Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once and for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of hiself.”
Is the atonement effective in human lives where the Gospel is unknown?
No. General revelation reveals God, but is not enough.
A person must make an authentic confession
Romans 10:9-“If you declare with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead; you will be saved.”
People can’t call on what they haven’t heard
Romans 10:14-“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?”
What aspects of man’s condition made the atonement necessary?
Sin and death
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Could anyone other than Christ have been an acceptable offereing?
No. Sacrifice needed to be blameless, pure, and perfect…and man. Only Christ was these things.
Hebrews 4:15-“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weakness, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are-yet he did not sin.”
What assurance doe we have that the offering was acceptable to God?
Resurrection 1 Corinthians 15 The enitre chapter talks about resurrection…but
1 Corinthians 2-4-“By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that we has buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures…”
