tinytim said:
You may be wrong sometimes, but this time you are right.
If a person rejects Christ's payment for sin.. then the sin goes unpaid for.
The payment is available, Christ paid it.. but you have to appropriate it to your account... That is called propitiation...
Without God applying Christ's blood to your account... you still owe a sin debt.
If a person rejects God's payment for sin, the sin is still paid for---salvation is a gift. You can reject a gift and it will still be paid for because someone purchased it for you. Christ's blood paid for all sin---if a person rejects that payment, it does not mean that the debt was not paid. A person will go to hell for the rejection of that payment for his/her sins.
Appropriate is NOT the same as propitiation.
APPRO'PRIATE, v.t. L. ad and proprius, private, peculiar. See Proper.
1. To set apart for, or assign to a particular use, in exclusion of all other uses; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
2. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.
Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
3. To make peculiar; as, to appropriate names to ideas.
4. To sever an ecclesiastical benefice, and annex it to a spiritual corporation, sole or aggregate, being the patron of the living.
APPRO'PRIATE, a.
1. Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; set apart for a particular use or person; as, religious worship is an appropriate duty to the Creator.
2. Most suitable, fit or proper; as, to use appropriate words in pleading.
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PROPITIATION, n. propisia'shon.
1. The act of appeasing wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.
2. In theology, the atonement or atoning sacrifice offered to God to assuage his wrath and render him propitious to sinners. Christ is the propitiation for the sins of men. Rom.3. 1 John 2.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Jesus Christ is our propitiation--we don't propitiate anything to our account---Jesus Christ paid it all.
Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
(Romans 3:25)
And he is the
propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
(1 John 2:2)
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10)