• Symbol Of Atonement

  Contributed by David Tack on May 6, 2009 (message contributor)

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SYMBOL OF ATONEMENT

"The cross is a fitting symbol of the atonement, for it represents the intersecting of two attributes or facets of God’s nature. Here it is that the love of God meets the holiness of God. The holiness requires payment of the penalty, and the love provides that payment."

Milliard Erickson, Christian Theology (Grand Rapids MI: Baker Academics: 1998) 835.