A Summary of Biblical Teaching About Christ's Death: What is the Gospel?, #10

By Richard Smith

After using these notes readers should be able to: -
1) Appreciate that all four theoretical models of the atonement can be supported by scripture.
2) Gain some knowledge of the many consequences arising from Christ's death.
3) Employ it as a reference tool for further biblical exploration into Christ's work upon the cross.
4) Enjoy a sense of awe at the many wonderful works Christ accomplished on the cross.
5) Understand why Jesus died on behalf of sinful humanity

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Smith
• Release date: Jan 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393885689

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GOSPEL PREACHING NOTES 10

(A SUMMARY OF BIBLICAL TEACHING ABOUT CHRIST’S DEATH)

RAYMOND CREED

©The moral right of the author has been exerted, Electronic Edition June 2016

Definitions

Section 1: A Biblical Summary of the Confessional View of the Atonement

Section 2: A Biblical Summary of the Judicial View of the Atonement

Section 3: A Biblical Summary of the Moral View of the Atonement

Section 4: A Biblical Summary of the Triumphal View of the Atonement

Before You Go

Definitions

ATONEMENT: the necessary satisfaction of the demands of God as Holy Love , which He Himself , in the person of the God-Man , has provided by the voluntary penal suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ as the substitute for sin, (with acknowledgement to London Bible College ). Briefly, the Atonement refers to that ‘covering over’ of sin, which comes about through Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death upon the cross. It derives from the Hebrew verb ‘Kippur’ meaning to ‘cover over.’  This word was often used in the context of animal blood sacrifices. Christ’s sacrifice was acceptable to God because he was both fully divine and fully human.

Present are four complementary views of Christ’s atonement. These are: -

1) The Confessional (Or Demonstrative-Informative) View: This stresses how Christ died to demonstrate what God was like and to expose the darkness of the human condition. 

2) The Judicial (Or Penal-Substitution) View: This stresses how. Christ died as the sacrificial vicarious substitute in order to gain the propitiation (pacifying) of divine wrath against human sin.

3) The Moral (Or Practical-Exemplary) View: This stresses the inspirational effect that Christ’s death should have on Spirit-filled Christians.