A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part III: Questions about Salvation

73. Q. What is meant by the atonement?
       A. The atonement consists of Christ’s satisfying divine justice, by his sufferings and death, in the place of sinners.

(Click through to read scriptural proof.)

• Mark 10:45
  

  For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

• Acts 13:38-39
  

  Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

• Romans 3:24-26
  

  …and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

• Romans 5:8-9
  

  …but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

• 2 Corinthians 5:19-21
  

  …that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

• Galatians 3:13

  Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”….

• 1 Peter 3:18
  

  For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

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