Theory Of Atonement In Religion

First the images do not describe a theory of the atonement or the plan of salvation that explain what God must do and what must happen to Jesus if God wants to save the world. They used these images not to explain what God must do in order to save us, but to interpret what God actually did do. He suffers as the representative of sinful people so that they may be reconciled with God. One way to get at the meaning of the doctrine of the atonement in biblical religion is to contrast it with what atonement, or reconciliation, meant in other ancient religions and still means in some modern versions of them. This is called satisfaction theory of the atonement. Rom. 3:25 says that Jesus blood is a sacrifice of atonement earlier translations say propitiation …show more content…
The Holy Spirit does not belong to us Christian and is not trapped in our hearts or in our church. We want to know who the Holy Spirit is we have to look first at Jesus of Nazareth. Peter later summed up his whole story by proclaiming Jesus as one whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power (Acts 10:38). The Gospels teach us to think of him also as a human being who at every point in his life in everything he said and did was filled led inspired and empowered by God 's Holy Spirit look at Jesus; they tell us if you want to know what it means to have the Holy Spirit dwell within you. The Holy Spirit of this God enables people not to escape from the world, but to live in it in such a way that not only their personal lives but also the world around them begin to be made news. It is true that when the Holy Spirit comes into our lives, our hearts are strangely warmed by the assurance of God 's redeeming …show more content…
Sanctification tells us how a person grows in the Christian life. Sanctification tells us that by the Holy Spirit the same God works in us helping us to leave our sin behind and begin a new radically different kind of life. Sanctification tells us that the same Christ is our Lord who commands us to live for him. Justification-faith and sanctification-action must be distinguished from each other but they can separated. This split between Christian faith and Christian life justification and sanctification lies behind many of the arguments in the church today. There is no such thing as Christian faith without Christian life; Christian faith does not free us from but for Christian action. Sanctification means that faith in God 's action does not exclude but includes Christian action in the world and that the Christian life is not only a great task but also a great