038. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 16.

QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 16.

1. What is the only passage in which the word atonement occurs in the New Testament?

2. What is the Greek word there used, and what does it mean?

3. What is the Hebrew word for atonement, and what does it mean?

4. What is the definition as given by lexicographers generally?

5. How is the word understood in a theological sense?

6. Upon what important doctrine is the atonement founded?

7. What is the Socinian view of the atonement?

8. Explain the Arian view of the subject?

9. What is the ground of necessity for the atonement?

10. What was the grand design in the creation of man?

11. What was the primitive character of man?

12. Did that character accord with the design in creation?

13. How does it appear necessary that man should have been placed under law?

14. What description of law was essential for his government?

15. From what does the adaptation of law to the subject result?

16. Why was it necessary that man should be capable of either obeying or disobeying the law?

17. Why was it requisite to promote the obedience of man?

18. What was the only method by which this could be accomplished?

19. Why was it requisite that the law should be prescribed?

20. Why was the affixing of a penalty necessary?

21. How can it be shown that the most suitable penalty was selected?

22. Why was it necessary to execute the penalty?

23. What two grounds of pardon have been presented by those who deny the atonement?

24. How does it appear that pardon on the principle of mere prerogative is impossible?

25. Why cannot pardon be on the ground of repentance?

26. In what two senses is repentance understood?

27. How does it appear that pardon on the ground of repentance is repugnant to acknowledged fact?

28. How does it appear that it is repugnant to Scripture?

29. How is the necessity for the atonement shown in this chapter?