ATONEMENT
Never has there been a sin pardoned, absolutely and without atonement, since the
world began. 255.241
What the sun is to the heavens, that the doctrine of a vicarious satisfaction is to
theology. Atonement is the brain and spinal cord of Christianity. Take away the
cleansing blood, and what is left to the guilty? Deny the substitutionary work of
Jesus, and you have denied all that is precious in the New Testament. 765.449
To deny the great doctrine of atonement by the blood of Jesus Christ is to hamstring
the gospel, and to cut the throat of Christianity. 1620.538
I can truly declare among you that I do not preach this doctrine of vicarious sacrifice
as one among many theories, but the saving fact of my experience. I must preach this
or nothing. 1987.569
God has so impressed this truth upon humanity that you can scarcely go into any
nation, however benighted, but there is connected with their religion the idea of
sacrifice, and therefore the idea of the offering of a life on account of a broken law. 2070.87
What a wonderful atonement is that which hides from God that which cannot be
hidden, so that God does not see what, in another sense, he must always see, and
forgets what it is impossible for him, in another sense, ever to forget! 2551.14
If the atoning sufferings of Christ are left out of a ministry, that ministry is
worthless. “The blood is the life thereof,” is as true about sermons as it is about
animals and sacrifices. A bloodless gospel, a gospel without the atonement, is a
gospel of devils, and not the gospel of God. 2610.89
Man seems to know, in his inmost nature, that he must bring a sacrifice if he would
appear before God; and this is, by no means, an error on his part. However erroneous
may be the form it takes, in its essence there is truth in it. 2693.446
When we are giving the invitations of the gospel that we find in the Scriptures, we
never think of limiting them. Though we believe the special purpose of Christ’s
atonement was the redemption of his Church, yet we know that his sacrifice was
infinite in value, and therefore we set the wicket gate as wide open as we can, and we
repeat Christ’s own invitation, “Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” 3216.458