Articles of Faith: Of the Atonement for Sin We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace; through the mediatorial offices of the Son of God, Who by appointment of the Father, freely took upon Him our nature, yet without sin, honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and by His death made a full and vicarious atonement for our sins; that His atonement consisted not in setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was the voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinner's place, the Just dying for the unjust, Christ, the Lord, bearing our sins in His own body on the tree; that, having risen from the dead, He is now enthroned in heaven and uniting in His wonderful person the tenderest sympathies with divine perfection, He is in every way qualified to be a suitable, a compassionate and an all sufficient Savior. Romans 3:24-25 24. Being
freely by his
through the
that is in Christ Jesus:
25. Whom God hath set forth to be a
through
in his blood, to declare his
for the
of sins that are past, through the
of God;
Galatians 1:4
Who gave
for our sins, that he might
us from this
, according to the will of God and
:
Ephesians 2:8
For by
are ye saved through
; and that not of yourselves: it is the
:
Philippians 2:7-8
7. But made himself of no
, and took upon him the
of a servant, and was made in the
of men:
8. And being found in fashion as a man, he
himself, and became
unto death, even the
of the cross.
Hebrews 2:14
Forasmuch then as the children are
of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise
of the same; that through
he might destroy him that had the
, that is, the devil;
Hebrews 7:25
Wherefore he is able also to
them to the
that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make
for them.
Hebrews 9:12-15
12. Neither by the
of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the
, having obtained
for us.
13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
to the
of the flesh:
14. How much more shall the
, who through the
offered himself
to God,
from dead works to serve the living God?
15. And for this cause he is the
of the new testament, that by means of death, for the
of the
that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of
.
Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the
and
of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him
the cross,
the shame, and is set down at the
of the throne of God.
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