It is Finished

[John of Japan]

I understand that, but if we summarize the purpose of God in the history of man, what do we come to? Maybe this: to display His grace and to magnify His Son in the creating of Children in His own image and glory. That one purpose had multiple parts, and it was all completed at the cross.

Summarized with one word: atonement.

 

[Martin Marprelate]

I agree with one exception (I am not sure what you mean by "the end of all our sins" as we have sinned and needed to be forgiven).

I think that the easiest way to say this is Jesus fulfilled Scripture, from the Incarnation to the atoning sacrifice in His own blood.

And I get the wanting to find another. Once we get to six we just have to go to seven.

Our sins were transferred to the Lord Jesus. 'The LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.' If my sins have been laid upon Jesus, they are no longer on me. To be sure, there is sin in me, and will be until the day I die or until Christ returns, but there is no sin on me. Christ bore my sins in His own body on the tree, and the guilt, the condemnation, the curse and the penalty were all passed to Him. Therefore they are no more on me.
As the hymn-writer says:
'My sin (Oh the bliss of the glorious thought!);
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more;
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!' [Philip Paul Bliss]

 

[Martin Marprelate]

Summarized with one word: atonement.

OK, but I don't think that invalidates my post #73.

 

[JonC]

To be sure, there is sin in me, and will be until the day I die or until Christ returns, but there is no sin on me.

I do not understand the difference you are making by "on" vs "in".

I get that you believe your sins were transferred from you (we disagree here) and put on Jesus. But how are they "in" you still?

 

[Aaron]

Summarized with one word: atonement.

There were many things accomplished in the Atonement... Christ's one sacrifice, one work on the Cross, all prefigured in the myriad of rites and sacrifices of the priesthood and the temple, and the law.

But the controversy Jon is raising, hidden behind all this smoke of 'agreement' he's blowing, is, was a sin debt paid? Did Christ receive the punishment due sinners on the Cross, or did He merely die a martyr's death, and then by magic sins disappear?

What say you?