“‘The Son of Man came to give His life a
ransom for many.’ ‘Christ died for the ungodly.’ ‘He bore our sins in His own
body on the tree.’ ‘He is the propitiation for the whole world.’ ‘I beheld, and
lo, a lamb as it had been slain.’ It is in words like these that we discover
the open secret of the new creation.” (p. ???).
“Jesus Christ, come in flesh, the
propitiation for the whole world.” (p. ???).
“...God
has made man in His own image; but, as has been suggested above, it has a
limit, in so far as God is God and not man, and must have relations to the human race which its members do not and
cannot have to each other.” (p. ???).
“...the
conception of a relation of all men to
God.” (p. ???).
“He
bore our sins. He took to Himself all that they meant, all in which they had involved the world.
He died for them, and in so doing acknowledged the sanctity of that order in
which sin and death are indissolubly united. In other words, He did what the human race could not do for
itself, yet what had to be done if sinners were to be saved: for how could
men be saved if there were not made in humanity an acknowledgment of all that
sin is to God, and of the justice of all that is entailed by sin under God’s
constitution of the world? Such an acknowledgment, as we have just seen, is
divinely necessary, and necessary, too, for man, if sin is to be forgiven.” (p.
???).
“The
idea of fellowship with Christ, for example, is constantly urged against the idea that Christ died for us, and by
His death made all mankind His debtors in a way in which we cannot make
debtors of each other.” P. ???).
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