There are many things to learn about in C.S Lewis’s Mere Christianity, but the concept of the theories of atonement can confuse some readers who are not from a religious background. This essay will explain the concept of the theories of atonement.
The idea of atonement is that, through the time when Jesus was alive, mankind was committing sin after sin, making everything off balance in the world and with God as well. “The death and resurrection of this one man is at the very heart of the Christian faith. For Christians it is through Jesus's death that people's broken relationship with God is restored” (Unknown Author). This quote seems to talking about exactly what atonement actually is and not just a basic idea of what it is thought to …show more content…
Now sin does not merely hurt our soul, it has a far deeper grievousness, which, in traditional language, is expressed by saying that sin is an offence against- i.e. an insult to- God, not of course meaning thereby that God is injured in His own nature, but, as God and as Creator”(Riviere).
Atonement has been around since the beginning of time, and it seems that it was just a matter of time before sin would take over and the need arose for a sacrifice to resolve all sin to make everything heal from the wounds that sin creates with its power of mass …show more content…
If Christ only died because he loved us enough to pay for all our sins, then why exactly are we still sinning in today’s time? Christ did give us mercy because he saved everyone’s lives throughout the entire world from dying. He did not have to give up his own life, but he did in the end because he loved everyone enough by giving everyone mercy, which was the only way that the world could be saved. If God would have just killed every single human being on the planet just to start new all over again, the pattern would just continue until God was tired of killing everyone in the world because of sin being discovered once again. Christ gave up his life in order for this to not happen so we can have our time to live with or without the use of sin. To live with the knowledge that someone died because they loved us so much to give us another chance to make all right in the world is hard to believe for some who do not believe all that much in religion. “How cruel and wicked it seems that anyone should demand the blood of an innocent person as the price for anything, or that it should in any way please him that an innocent man should be slain – still less that God should consider the death of his Son so agreeable that by it he should be reconciled to the whole world!”(Rayment-Pickard, Hugh). When the world first found out that they could get away with sinning
The idea of atonement is that, through the time when Jesus was alive, mankind was committing sin after sin, making everything off balance in the world and with God as well. “The death and resurrection of this one man is at the very heart of the Christian faith. For Christians it is through Jesus's death that people's broken relationship with God is restored” (Unknown Author). This quote seems to talking about exactly what atonement actually is and not just a basic idea of what it is thought to …show more content…
Now sin does not merely hurt our soul, it has a far deeper grievousness, which, in traditional language, is expressed by saying that sin is an offence against- i.e. an insult to- God, not of course meaning thereby that God is injured in His own nature, but, as God and as Creator”(Riviere).
Atonement has been around since the beginning of time, and it seems that it was just a matter of time before sin would take over and the need arose for a sacrifice to resolve all sin to make everything heal from the wounds that sin creates with its power of mass …show more content…
If Christ only died because he loved us enough to pay for all our sins, then why exactly are we still sinning in today’s time? Christ did give us mercy because he saved everyone’s lives throughout the entire world from dying. He did not have to give up his own life, but he did in the end because he loved everyone enough by giving everyone mercy, which was the only way that the world could be saved. If God would have just killed every single human being on the planet just to start new all over again, the pattern would just continue until God was tired of killing everyone in the world because of sin being discovered once again. Christ gave up his life in order for this to not happen so we can have our time to live with or without the use of sin. To live with the knowledge that someone died because they loved us so much to give us another chance to make all right in the world is hard to believe for some who do not believe all that much in religion. “How cruel and wicked it seems that anyone should demand the blood of an innocent person as the price for anything, or that it should in any way please him that an innocent man should be slain – still less that God should consider the death of his Son so agreeable that by it he should be reconciled to the whole world!”(Rayment-Pickard, Hugh). When the world first found out that they could get away with sinning