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ATONEMENT OF SIN THROUGH OUR INTERCEDER & OUR LORD & SAVIOR YESHUA HAMASHIACH - AIGGM

Oct 01, 2021

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WHAT DOES ATONEMENT FOR SIN MEAN?

1 : reparation for an offense or injury : satisfaction a story of sin and atonement He wanted to find a way to make atonement for his sins. 2 : the reconciliation of God and humankind through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ.

  • Introduction :

Theological usage of the term “atonement” refers to a cluster of ideas in the Old Testament that center on the cleansing of impurity - (which needs to be done to prevent God from leaving the Temple), and to New Testament notions that “Christ died for our sins” (1 Corinthians 15:3) and that we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son” (Romans 5:10). In English translations of the Old Testament, “make atonement” usually translates kipper, the verb for the cultic removal of impurity from the Temple or sanctuary, accomplished through the dashing or sprinkling of the blood of the “purification offering” or “sin offering” on particular Temple furnishings. Kipper occurs most often, but not exclusively, in sacrificial texts. Kipper is also performed over the scapegoat in one passage (Leviticus 16:10). Thus, scholarly discussions of atonement in the Old Testament focus on the sacrificial and scapegoat rituals but also attend to the procedure for making a redemption payment, for which the word kopher (cognate with kipper) is used.

The most important day in the ancient Jewish liturgical calendar was Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when the supreme sacrificial rituals of the year were performed, and the only day of the year on which the scapegoat rite was performed.

Atonement in the New Testament is expressed through metaphors of sacrifice, scapegoat, and redemption to picture the meaning of the death of Christ. The Apostle Paul is the main fountainhead of these soteriological metaphors, but they occur in the other epistles and in Revelation. Atonement imagery is much less common in the Gospels, possibly appearing in the Lord’s Supper and the ransom saying (Mark 10:45).

Most (but not all) scholars would agree that atonement in the Old Testament concerns cleansing the Temple (the Deity’s home), not soteriology. In the New Testament, however, atonement is central to the soteriological metaphors in Paul’s letters, the deutero-Pauline letters, Hebrews, First Peter, First John, and Revelation.

  • General Overviews

All these academic works address atonement and related ideas in both testaments of the Bible. The eleven articles in Beckwith and Selman 1995 cover most aspects of sacrifice in the Bible.

Eberhart 2011b is valuable for social and intellectual aspects of sacrifice, while Eberhart 2011a covers sacrifice in both testaments of the Bible and, briefly, in subsequent theology. Finlan 2004 examines Old Testament atonement concepts before scrutinizing Paul’s atonement teachings in depth. Johnson 2017 contains articles on numerous aspects of the atonement discussion. Sykes 1991 looks at many aspects of redemption and soteriology from biblical to modern times.

Beckwith, Roger T., and Martin J. Selman, eds. Sacrifice in the Bible. Carlisle, UK: Paternoster Press, 1995.

Competent and detailed articles on Levitical sacrifice, kipper and kopher, sacrifice in neighboring cultures, and New Testament concepts of the sacrifice of Christ.

Eberhart, Christian A. The Sacrifice of Jesus: Understanding Atonement Biblically. Facets. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011a.

Excellent short introduction to biblical data and theological debates, accessible to believers and scholars. Shows why the cereal offering can be called a “sacrifice.” Discusses the theme of consecration in both testaments. More thorough with the Old Testament than with the New.

Eberhart, Christian A., ed. Ritual and Metaphor: Sacrifice in the Bible. Resources for Biblical Study 68. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011b.

These academic articles examine social backgrounds to sacrificial texts, the burning rite as a defining feature of sacrifice, prophetic rhetoric on sacrifice, the “Yom Kippuring of Passover” imagery, and the Epistle to the Hebrews’ spiritualizing of sacrifice (focusing on inner motives, and speaking of sacrifice metaphorically).

Finlan, Stephen. The Background and Content of Paul’s Cultic Atonement Metaphors. Academia Biblica 19. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Examines purification, scapegoat, and redemption in ancient Israel and surrounding cultures in some depth. Explores Paul’s metaphorical usage of these practices, including how he conflates the metaphors, as when sacrificial blood brings judicial acquittal (Romans 5:9).

Johnson, Adam J., ed. T&T Clark Companion to Atonement. New York and London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017.

Has eighteen long articles and eighty-five short “essays,” including “Athanasius’s Incarnational Soteriology,” “Thomas Aquinas’s Pauline Theology of the Atonement,” “The Fury of Love: Calvin on the Atonement,” “Colin Gunton,” “Liberation Theology,” and “Wrath.”

Sykes, Stephen W., ed. Sacrifice and Redemption: Durham Essays in Theology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511659522

Articles examine sacrifice and holiness in the Old Testament, the spiritualization of sacrifice in the New Testament, and sacrificial imagery in medieval and Reformation theology.

  • WHAT IS A [an] MODERN EXAMPLE OF ATONEMENT?

An example of atonement in and for MODERN [Society, Culture, Times] Days- is when a man [husband] has been unfaithful to his wife, and after confessing he sincerely apologizes, cuts all ties with his lover, enters couples counseling, and does whatever he can to make it up to his wife and regain her trust.

Amends or reparation made for an injury or wrong; expiation.

  • WHAT DOES YESHUA HAMASHIACH [Jesus Christ] SAY ABOUT ATONEMENT?

As used in the scriptures, to atone is to suffer the penalty for sins, thereby removing the effects of sin from the repentant sinner and allowing him or her to be reconciled to GOD ALMIGHTY.

Jesus Christ [Yeshua Hamashiach] was and is the ONLY ONE capable of carrying out the Atonement for ALL mankind.

** ATONEMENT OF YESHUA HAMASHIACH {Jesus Christ} : **

Overview

What is the Atonement?

As used in the scriptures, to atone is to suffer the penalty for sins, thereby removing the effects of sin from the repentant sinner and allowing him or her to be reconciled to God. Jesus Christ was the only one capable of carrying out the Atonement for all mankind. Because of His Atonement, all people will be resurrected, and those who obey His gospel will receive the gift of eternal life with God.

As descendants of Adam and Eve, all people inherit the effects of the Fall. In our fallen state, we are subject to opposition and temptation. When we give in to temptation, we are alienated from God, and if we continue in sin, we experience spiritual death, being separated from His presence. We are all subject to temporal death, which is the death of the physical body (see Alma 42:6–9; Doctrine and Covenants 29:41–42).

The only way for us to be saved is for someone else to rescue us. We need someone who can satisfy the demands of justice—standing in our place to assume the burden of the Fall and to pay the price for our sins. Jesus Christ has always been the only one capable of making such a sacrifice.

From before the Creation of the earth, the Savior has been our only hope for “peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come” (Doctrine and Covenants 59:23).

Only He had the power to lay down His life and take it up again. From His mortal mother, Mary, He inherited the ability to die. From His immortal Father, He inherited the power to overcome death. He declared, “As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself” (John 5:26).

Only He could redeem us from our sins. God the Father gave Him this power (see Helaman 5:11). The Savior was able to receive this power and carry out the Atonement because He kept Himself free from sin: “He suffered temptations but gave no heed unto them” (Doctrine and Covenants 20:22). Having lived a perfect, sinless life, He was free from the demands of justice. Because He had the power of redemption and because He had no debt to justice, he could pay the debt for those who repent.

Jesus’s atoning sacrifice took place in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross at Calvary. In Gethsemane He submitted to the will of the Father and began to take upon Himself the sins of all people. He has revealed some of what He experienced as He paid the price for our sins:

“I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent;

“But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I;

“Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—

“Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men”

(Doctrine and Covenants 19:16–19; see also Luke 22:44; Mosiah 3:7).

The Savior continued to suffer for our sins when He allowed Himself to be crucified—“lifted up upon the cross and slain for the sins of the world” (1 Nephi 11:33).

On the cross, He allowed Himself to die. His body was then laid in a tomb until He was resurrected and became “the firstfruits of them that slept” (1 Corinthians 15:20). Through His death and Resurrection, He overcame physical death for us all.

Jesus Christ redeems all people from the effects of the Fall. All people who have ever lived on the earth and who ever will live on the earth will be resurrected and brought back into the presence of God to be judged (see 2 Nephi 2:5–10; Helaman 14:15–17). Through the Savior’s gift of mercy and redeeming grace, we will all receive the gift of immortality and live forever in glorified, resurrected bodies.

Although we are redeemed unconditionally from the universal effects of the Fall, we are accountable for our own sins. But we can be forgiven and cleansed from the stain of sin if we “apply the atoning blood of Christ” (Mosiah 4:2). We must exercise faith in Jesus Christ, repent, be baptized for the remission of sins, and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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