Jesus and eleven disciples left the upper room, went out of the gate of the city, over the viaduct spanning the wastes of Kedron, and came to the darkness of Gethsemane. This was a familiar place. Luke records that Jesus …
Posts Tagged: Atonement
The Atonement: Discussion on Terminology
I should like to thank The Testimony for producing a special issue on the subject of the Atonement, which I read with interest. I believe more attention should be paid to this aspect of God’s work in Christ, the very …
Correspondence : Psychology and the Bible
Correspondence
Our contributor sends us further correspondence. Earlier letters appeared in The Testimony for October and November.
Will correspondents who wish to discuss points raised in The Testimony please note that their letters should be addressed to the Editorial Secretary, …
Christ was made a Curse for Us – Galatians 3:13
The Curse of the Law
Through descent from Adam “both Jews and Gentiles are 0 under sin”. Escape from death is therefore a need common to both, for death has “passed upon all men”. In the work of redemption wrought …
A Priest after the Order of Melchizedek
The writer to the Hebrews sees in Christ the perfect Sacrificial Offering, whose shed blood would represent the Great Atonement for the remission of sins. Not remission for all in the universal sense, but rather for those who enter into …
The Sacrifice that Saul made and the Sacrifice of Christ
When Saul sacrificed to the Lord in the absence of Samuel, the Philistines were steadily gathering their forces against him, and Israel, shrinking from the unequal conflict, was deserting. Saul felt that despite the promised coming of Samuel he must …
Redemption Of The Body
This state of vanity and corruption was the result. of God’s will — deliberately subjecting the creature to the curse of evil against its own will: but in the hope of ultimately reclaiming what had been lost.
That which had …