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In Catholic atonement theology, if God can save Mary from all sin without Christ, what was the point of Christ's death?
The title of the question suggests that you think God saved Mary from all sin without Christ. This is not the Catholic view. Here is the crucial passage from the papal decree, Ineffabilis Deus, ...
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Do Lutherans define Justification and Atonement as different things?
Articles 3 and 4 of the Augsburg Confession (part of the Lutheran Confessions) talk about this: The Augsburg Confession (Chief Articles of Faith: Article III: Of the Son of God and Article IV: Of ...
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Which theory of the atonement did C. S. Lewis hold?
This brief addendum is intended only to corroborate OP's considered conclusion that Lewis
does not see any need to settle on a particular theory of the atonement, considering it to be something ...
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What was the dominant theory of atonement shown in the Apostolic Fathers's writings?
I think the clearest statement to explicitly deal with atonement would be this one from the Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians:
Through charity did the Lord join us unto himself; whilst, for the ...
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Is Jesus atoned for us?
English grammar is pretty fluid, especially in poetry. The proper way to attach subject, verb, and object here is:
He atoned for us
Thus Jesus performed the actions that accomplished the atonement ...
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If flour seems to be accepted as sin offering/atonement, then why is blood needed?
From a Christian viewpoint, the Jewish sacrificial system was a metaphor pointing to Christ's sacrifice as the ultimate fulfilment. The concessions concerning what was acceptable to offer in sacrifice ...
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If flour seems to be accepted as sin offering/atonement, then why is blood needed?
Blood, flour, or whatever was offered in the temple didn't "actually" take away sin. It was faith directed toward God in participation of the process that God had instituted which covered ...
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What is the Biblical argument against Limited Atonement?
Christ is not only the propitiation for the sins of Christians:
1 John 2:1-2 (ESV) My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an ...
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Did God accept a sacrifice that was against His own law?
Jesus was not 'burnt'.
Jesus was not offered to Molech or any other god.
Jesus offered himself, voluntarily. He was not 'offered' by another.
The "commandment of the Father is everlasting life&...
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Is the validity of the ransom contingent on Jesus being God?
Irenaeus of Lyons is generally credited with being the first to fully present Recapitulation Theory. He explains that Jesus saves humanity be undoing the error of Adam by succeeding where Adam failed. ...
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that Jesus' death made satisfaction for individual sins?
Part of the solution here might be to look at the Old Testament sacrifices which Jesus is fulfilling. When an Israelite took his lamb to the temple to be sacrificed, he had no sense that his ...
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Is Jesus atoned for us?
Hymns and grammar
The language of traditional hymns can take a while to get used to, since for rhyming purpose the grammatical parts are frequently moved around, especially the verbs, which are moved ...
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If flour seems to be accepted as sin offering/atonement, then why is blood needed?
To quote from Dr Brown's Answering Jewish Objections book series:
CLAIM: Orthodox Jewish interpreters often argue that the NT authors often overemphasize the importance of blood sacrifices in the OT. ...
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In Catholic atonement theology, if God can save Mary from all sin without Christ, what was the point of Christ's death?
The point of Christ's death was that God ordained from eternity to will the salvation of the world consequent upon the willing sacrifice of Christ. Indeed, Mariologists would hold that this same ...
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Are there any Protestant denominations or churches that reject penal substitution?
Not all Anglicans have held to Penal Substitution Theory. For example, the nineteenth to early 20th century Anglican bishop Charles Ellicott did not. See his commentary on Galatians 3, for example. ...
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Did Philip Melanchthon teach penal substitution?
A great place to look for this is Melancthon's Defense of the Augsburg Confession. As we'll see, he does not always use language specific to penal substitution, but the themes of Christ's sacrifice ...
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How does the Catholic Church view Penal Substitutionary Atonement?
After my research, I am not convinced that Penal Substitutionary Atonement is a formally condemned heresy. However, it seems to contradict the sensus fidelium, or the "sense of the faithful."...
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Did Jesus die for all? Is “for many” the same meaning as “for all “ in Matthew 26:28?
Your question is really two questions, the first is theological, the second is whether "all" and "many" are semantically synonymous enough to be interchangeable.
The second question is addressed ...
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How does Catholicism biblically defend purgatory in a way that upholds the sufficiency of Christ's work?
The Catholic Church teaches the doctrine of Purgatory while also teaching the sufficient and superabundant merits of the Passion of Christ.
The first component to understanding this is the dogma that ...
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When was the term 'substitutionary atonement' first coined and what was the reason for the choice of the 2 words?
It is hard to nail down a person or time that can be credited with the coining of the term substitutionary atonement. The concept is not well attested in early extra-biblical writings although there ...
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Does LDS doctrine explicitly emphasize the atonement in Gethsemane?
A 3-part definition
Preach My Gospel (the instruction manual for the church's missionaries) offers the following definition:
The Savior’s Atonement included His suffering in the Garden of
Gethsemane ...
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Did Jesus die only for the Church in the Governmental theory of atonement?
This Governmental Theory of the Atonement seems to have been started by one Hugo Grotius (1583-1645). He had been trained in law. Theologically, he was Arminian. There was a sharp divide between ...
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Do Lutherans define Justification and Atonement as different things?
Lutheran theologian John Mueller refers to the atonement as the redemption that Christ purchased on the cross for all sinners. He then addresses precisely the issue you are describing using the terms ...
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that Jesus' death made satisfaction for individual sins?
Off the top of my mind, there are two passages upon which the belief of individual satisfaction can be based. One is from Paul's letter to the Romans, v 6:10 [RSV]:
While we were still weak, at the ...
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What is the earliest reference to the notion that we killed Jesus?
There seems to be two distinct issues here. One is that the claim that Jesus' death was for the sins of all men. The other is related to the sense in which all men may have participated in the killing ...
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Calvinists: How to avoid justification from eternity?
You are asking for a solution to what you see as an intractable problem. A classically Arminian view has been stated. The Five Points of Arminianism include these three (which relate directly to your ...
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How does Catholicism biblically defend purgatory in a way that upholds the sufficiency of Christ's work?
My question is not about the prayers or the process of purification in purgatory. My question is about the notion of there being some aspect of Divine Justice that was not satisfied on the sinners ...
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Why might have God confined his atonement to only the Israelites?
In the Old Testament, the nation of Israel was God’s chosen instrument for witnessing about God’s saving grace. It was in this sense that Israel became the “chosen nation” (Ex 19:5). Specifically:
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