Assertion: atonement | /r/HasProperty | necessary
Facets:
value: as to the general position
type: OTHER
value: absolutely
type: DEGREE
value: to deal with sin
type: PURPOSE
value: logically
type: DEGREE
value: as the other
type: OTHER
value: altogether
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: and so the word "appease" carries with it somewhat why atonement is necessary.
text: But St. Thomas and the other medieval masters agree with Abelard in rejecting the notion that this full satisfaction for sin was absolutely necessary.
text: Why the atonement is needed.
text: Such people think an atonement is unnecessary.
text: The Socinians allege that a vicarious atonement or satisfaction for sin is altogether unnecessary, and adduce this consideration as a proof, or at least a presumption, against its truth or reality; while the advocates of an atonement have not been contented with showing that its non-necessity could not be proved, but have, in general, further averred positively that it was necessary, —have undertaken to prove this, —and have made the evidence of its necessity at once an argument in favour of its truth and reality, and a means of illustrating its real nature and operation.
text: It was a necessary means by which we are redeemed.
text: So, in summation of all this, we conclude that the federal nature of the atonement, or satisfaction that God’s Holy nature demands, and that He, in the Second Person of the Holy Trinity provides is as much a necessity as all the other of His Holy demands and gracious provisions.
text: The Atonement was just as necessary for one sinner as it was for one million sinners.
text: We will find that sin is not the only thing for which atonement is necessary, however.
text: Why is the atonement necessary?
text: In it, he attempted to argue that the incarnation and atonement of Jesus were logically necessary.
text: That is why the Atonement is so remarkable and so necessary.
text: As to the general position, that an atonement or satisfaction was necessary, —or rather, that God could not have made provision for pardoning and saving sinners in any other way than that which he has actually adopted, —this seems fully warranted, independently of any other consideration, by the Scripture doctrine of the proper divinity of the Saviour.
text: And if it be in any sense true that an atonement or satisfaction was necessary, —or, what is in substance the same thing, that God could not have pardoned sinners without it, —this must be because the attributes of His nature, or the principles of His government, —in other words, His excellence or perfection, —prevented or opposed it, or threw obstacles in the way, which could not otherwise be removed.
text: And so we’re going to look at that tonight and identify why atonement is necessary.
text: Why is atonement necessary?
text: But we’ll just hit the tip of the iceberg to point to the ultimate standard of righteousness to begin to understand why atonement is necessary.
text: And that will become critical as we answer that question, why atonement is necessary.
text: Why is atonement necessary?
text: Why atonement is necessary and how to deal with the need, how to deal with sin.
text: Why was an atonement necessary?
text: A brief explanation of why the atonement is necessary:
text: All this may be true, while it may still be false that repentance is the sole cause or condition of the forgiveness, —the sole, or even the principal, reason on account of which it is bestowed; and if so, then there is abundant room left for the admission of the principle, that a vicarious atonement or satisfaction was also necessary in order to the forgiveness of sin, and was indeed the true ground on which the forgiveness was conferred.
text: As to the general position, that an atonement or satisfaction was necessary, —or rather, that God could not have made provision for pardoning and saving sinners in any other way than that which he has actually adopted, —this seems fully warranted, independently of any other consideration, by the Scripture doctrine of the proper divinity of the Saviour.
text: And if it be in any sense true that an atonement or satisfaction was necessary, —or, what is in substance the same thing, that God could not have pardoned sinners without it, —this must be because the attributes of His nature, or the principles of His government, —in other words, His excellence or perfection, —prevented or opposed it, or threw obstacles in the way, which could not otherwise be removed.
text: But St. Thomas and the other medieval masters agree with Abelard in rejecting the notion that this full Satisfaction for sin was absolutely necessary.