Quotes about Atonement

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

Let us honor the blood of Jesus Christ every moment of our lives, and we will be sweet in our souls.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.

I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began

There is something about uncleanness that asks for blood.

The important thing was the shedding of blood. Sounds barbaric, but the Old Testament was reminding us that there was a significant cost involved in moving from unclean to clean. You didn't have to pay it, but it still had to be paid.

Since Jesus became thoroughly identified with sin, he would receive its wrath and judgment in our place. This meant he would experience the worst kind of rejection and alienation from the Father, and he would do this for us.

There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.

At best, the theory of substitutionary atonement has inoculated us against the true effects of the Gospel, causing us to largely "thank" Jesus instead of honestly imitating him. At worst, it led us to see God as a cold, brutal figure, who demands acts of violence before God can love his own creation

Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.