|  | books.google.com In what sense is it true that sin is infinite ? How is it ascertained that it is infinite ? In what part of the Scriptures is it asserted or intimated that the necessity of an atonement rests on the fact that sin is an infinite evil ? Where is it affirmed that sin ... |
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 | books.google.com We now advance a step higher, and shall endeavour to show that the atonement of Christ is necessary. It cannot surely be requisite here to do more than remind the reader of the sense in which the term necessity is used. It is employed, not in ... |
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 | books.google.com We now advance a step higher, and shall endeavour to show that the atonement of Christ is necessary. It cannot surely be requisite here to do more than remind the reader of the sense in which the term necessity is used. It is employed, not in ... |
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 | books.google.com ON THE NECESSITY OF AN ATONEMENT. Before entering upon the first branch of the general division, it will be proper to explain the sense in which we understand the word necessity, as applied to the atonement in the subsequent ... |
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 | books.google.com Paul Helm - 2008 - 175 pages Finally, in establishing the necessity of the atonement Calvin does not proceed from the nature of God viewed ... He denies that there has been an absolute necessity (our sense (1)) for the Mediator to be both true God and true man, but one that flowed from the divine decree. That is, it does not follow as a matter of logic from the fact of the Fall and of universal human sinfulness that there must be an ... |
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 | books.google.com Oliver Crisp - 2009 - 379 pages Clearly, the hypothetical necessity claim is weaker than the absolute necessity claim in the sense that the hypothetical claim says only that ... It would not be true to say the Grotian view entails that God was bound to bring about atonement ... |
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 | books.google.com Edwards the Younger and the Necessity of the Atonement The full title of Edwards the Younger' s most significant work regarding the atonement is "Three Sermons on the Necessity of the Atonement and its Consistency with Free Grace in Forgiveness." Written in ... "If we be in the literal sense forgiven in consequence of a redemption, we are forgiven on account of the price of redemption previously paid. |
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 | books.google.com Now, if God might have forgiven sin without an atonement : t. e. if it were no ways unbecoming his perfections so to have done, ... But it is obvious, that if there were any necessity at all, it must have been from justice, taken in the true sense of ... |
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 | books.google.com ... Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement ; and Its Glorious Consequences, in the ... without the knowledge of God, represents Deity as angry, and fall of vengeance ; in which sense, many scriptures are ... |
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 | books.google.com It is indeed necessary to understand the atonement as a divine act, something achieved by God in order to save the ... On the one hand, it tends to reduce atonement to theodicy: as if the problem is not human offence and sin, but the evil for which God is in some sense ... are made, the necessity for a discussion of the trinitarian dimensions of the topic becomes manifest. ... We shall begin with the former consideration, in order to place the atonement in the whole economy of God. |
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