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Satisfaction is used as a synonym for propitiation, the concept of satisfaction being that the moral requirement of God has been completely met by the death of His Son on behalf of the believer and therefore has satisfied or propitiated God.
Hilasterion means a sacrifice that bears God's wrath to the end and in so doing changes God's wrath toward us into favor.
No, it does not. It certainly means to appease, expiate but you are adding to with the idea that it "bears God's wrath to the end." NO!!!!!
It means to
satisfy the wrath. To please, to ward off wrath, it does not mean to bear the wrath.
In PAGAN thinking that is how it is used. BUT not in the Scriptures, or one would witness the wrath of God common in the OT sacrificial system.
IGod has set the sinner free through Christ, but He has not done so by setting aside the rules
Where did you come up with this thinking!!!
Christ did not "set aside the rules" and neither did the Father.
There is not a place in Scripture such thinking is found.
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He has set the sinner free in Christ by satisfying the demands of God’s justice in Christ.
Not what Colosians 1 and 2 teach, nor that of Romans or Hebrews.
IDue to sin, a penalty was to be meted out and a price was to be paid. Christ paid that price and suffered that penalty (“redemption”). God’s divine wrath had to be appeased, due to man’s sin; Christ has appeased that wrath (“propitiation”).
Again, this is not the Scripture presentation, but reading into the Scripture what is not supported.
IA closely related word is hilasmos which refers to that which propitiates or that which appeases. John uses this word writing that Jesus
"Himself is the propitiation (hilasmos - appeasement, satisfaction) for our sins… " (
1 Jn 2:2-
note)
John uses the word in the terms of the "atoning sacrifice."
IThe sacrifice of Jesus on the cross satisfied the demands of God’s holiness for the punishment of sin. So Jesus propitiated or satisfied God.
Yes...this makes it very clear...The words have a. Biblical meaning that instructs us.
I do not disagree.
What troubles me is this thinking that God is an "angry God."
Again, that carries the view of paganism, for the Scriptures from the Garden to the last Amen do not show that God is continuously angry and filled with wrath.
Rather, His wrath is appointed to the ungodly, to the unrighteous, not to those in Christ nor to Christ.
I am not presenting that God is not going to bring judgement, and that wrath will not be poured out upon the unholy.
But Christ NEVER became unrighteous, nor unholy, nor guilty, nor...
Therefore, what the Scriptures state concerning wrath is certainly true.
What is not true is that God is viewed as some Pagans do make their god to be, and that He alone did the work of redemption through the use of human tools.
In a real manner God, propitiated God, not by wrath but by the most pleasing of atonement sacrifice.