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Gospel Of Propitiation Research Paper

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The Gospel of Propitiation When we speak of the cross of Christ and the death that He accomplished on Golgotha, many of us look or focus at the physical beatings, whips, humiliation, and death that Jesus had suffered on the cross. However, although the physical death of Jesus was a necessity the essence of it all was what happened spiritually. Because God is holy, He demonstrates His holiness on the cross of Christ by opposing with divine wrath against which the sin that He hates through propitiation. The Wrath of God The wrath of God, “means that He intensely hates all sin.” (Grudem, 1994) The attribute and characteristic of God’s wrath is a direct correlation with the attribute of God’s love. The very nature of God’s love, is not to say that God loves and cannot hate, however, God is love and He must hate. If a person declares that they love life and the sanctity of life, then they must hate abortion. They simply …show more content…

In other words, propitiation is the grand finally of the Gospel of Christ. It is the key to it all. Without propitiation there is no hope for man. We may indeed look at Christ’s physical death in horror, however, the physical death of Christ is a grain of sand compared to the entire ocean. Many Christians perhaps may not be able to answer the question, “What are you saved from?” However, ‘being saved from’ refers to something is chasing you. In other words, when a Christian says, “I am saved.” Biblically the Christian is saved from the wrath of God. It is God Himself whose wrath abides on the enemies of God. The point is clear we need a savior who will endure this wrath. And it is only God who can fully endure His own

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