Jesus the Christ: A Study on Christology and Atonement

This article delves into the study of Christology and Atonement in Christianity, exploring the life and times of Jesus Christ and the concept of atonement for human sins. It discusses the earliest sources of apostolic preaching and the relation of atonement with various rituals. The article also highlights the ethical dilemma in pondering the Atonement and how it is simplified in the Christian religion.

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Jesus is also often called the Son of God. He has come to save the mankind and deliver
salvation to the world. His purpose was to deliver the mankind from their sins and save them
from utter ruination. That is the reason he came to this world. Apostle John had a long writing
about the process of salvation and how the people of this world are the Supreme Lord’s own
people. “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye
may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God” (1
John 5:13)1. Therefore it can be stated that Jesus Christ, the person who is the own Son of God
was the own son of God and that he is the one who could deliver the human kind from the wrath
of sins. Sins are instrument of the Satan to ensure that people are not delivered and they cannot
achieve salvation.
Christology is the study within the field of Christian theology and the study regarding
Christ. The various description of the life and times of Christ that is described in the accounts of
the various Apostle and the epistles of the New Testament and the epistles of the New Testament
and the epistles of the New Testament and the various canonical Gospels. The study of
Christology mainly relates to the teaching, life and times of Jesus Christ. The primary source of
the life and times of Christ can be found from the immediate sources composed by the various
followers and immediate successors of Christ. In Christology it is taught that all the religions of
the Earth are having similarity with the teachings of Christ.
At the specific heart of the framework of Christianity rests the immeasurably essential
regulation of the Atonement. Paul, The Apostle who was himself a promoter of "sound
principle," in a consolidated articulation of what the Christian Catholic Church accepts, stated,
“For I conveyed unto you as a matter of first importance that which I likewise got, how that
1 Downs, David J. Alms: Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity. Baylor University Press, 2016.

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Jesus passed on for our transgressions as indicated by the holy books; And that He was covered,
and that He climbed again the third day as per the Scriptures (I Corinthians 15:3, 4).
In spite of the fact that the Gospel as indicated by Paul incorporated an immaculate and a
substantially restored Christ, he gives ahead of all comers to the basic reality that "Christ died for
our transgressions."2 notwithstanding the way that some religious pioneers protest vivaciously to
the Doctrine and theology of the Atonement, apart from that the Death of Jesus Christ was
conciliatory and essential for man's reclamation, we continue on a sound scriptural premise to
seek after this incredible subject.
The first form and usage of the term Atonement. It is used only one time in the New
Testament (Romans 5:11) and in this instant it is translated as "reconciliation" in the version that
is revised. It is not totally whimsical to prescribe the likelihood of atonement in light of the fact
that the term “atonement” is used to allude to the giving penance passing of Christ through which
the heathen is accommodated to God, reestablished to His help. Atonement appears just once in
the New Testament (Romans 5:11) where it is interpreted "reconciliation" in the Revised
Version3.
To make up for resources to show appropriate reparations. In the Holy Scriptures
atonement is related with man's bad behavior. God guided Israel to set aside one day
consistently, the tenth day of the seventh month, which He called "the day of atonement"
(Leviticus 16:29-30; 23:27-28). The general population were to bring a bad behavior offering, a
legit creature forfeit "whose blood was acquired to make atonement" (Leviticus 16:27). God had
2 Eberhart, Christian A. The Sacrifice of Jesus: Understanding Atonement Biblically. Wipf and Stock Publishers,
2018.
3 Mann, Alan. Atonement for a Sinless Society. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2015.

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stated, "For the life of the tissue is in the blood: and I have offered it to you upon the sacrificial
table to make an atonement for your spirits: for the blood maketh an atonement for the soul"
(Leviticus 17:11) "… what's more, without shedding of blood is no reduction" (Hebrews 9:22)4.
In this examination offered here plan to the scriptural indicating how the destruction of
Christ and the losing of His blood compensates for man's bad behavior. In the wake of going into
a thought of this sublime subject, it might be well to help ourselves that the Death to remember
Jesus Christ on the Cross at Calvary is a real conviction. Several books that are generally about
forecast identified with the life and the death of Christ. They tend to leave the psyche in the
unsafe condition of amazing dream and lovely inventive limit. Regardless, "solid course" directs
substances and not story. In the books of New Testament just, individuals find for all intents and
purposes in excess of 2 hundred references to Death of the Christ. Despite the manner in which
that different analysts have vacillated on the importance of the Cross, reality of the Death of the
Lord has been perceived ever of Church. A few scientists are direct to perceive reality of Death
of Jesus Christ, and in like manner as abrupt to express that they claim no procedure for
considering, no idea, no resolution of the Atonement.
Christians expect that men are recovered, recouped, suited to God, supported, absolved,
got a handle on, not by the Principle of the Atonement, but rather by the idea of Atonement
itself, by the conciliating and substitution going of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The New Testament utilizes a degree of pictures to delineate how the Supreme Lord
achieved compromise to the world by the death of Jesus. The most outstanding is the photograph
4 Kirwan, Michael, and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, eds. Mimesis and Atonement: René Girard and the Doctrine of
Salvation. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016.

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of give up. For instance, John the Baptist delineates Jesus as "the sheep of God that takes away
the awful practices of the world". (John 1:29)
In attempting a light of the Atonement, this is noteworthy that people know something of
what enlivened the Christ's death. The probability that the Lord kicked the can as a weak sacred
individual is no place instructed in the Bible. The general population who have no understanding
or valuation for Jesus Christ's work for the world, need to find in like way, the matter of the
impact and nature of awful conduct in all men. Different Holy books impart clearly that the
Atonement of Christ is a settlement of human lewdness, with the target that awful conduct is the
thing that arranged the Atonement as vital. Christ wound up demonstrate all together that He
should pass on for human sin. Despite whether the Son of God who is Jesus himself would have
wound up being epitomized if human had not trespassed, individuals haven't the faintest thought,
nor do they want to ponder. It is tasteful for us to comprehend that it was shamelessness which
set up the Cross an irrefutable essential in the comprehension of Jesus the Son of God.
Notwithstanding the veering off instructing of the art of Christianity, the closeness of
awful conduct on the planet is an apparent certainty. The Bible uncovers and features sin's
authentic nature and order. As far back as the defiance of Adam, the entire race of mankind has
screeched under the shocking weight and extraordinary control of awful conduct. The
understandings of well ordered life state that there is an essential issue with man. Before long
God isn't to be condemned for the disagreeable beastliness on the planet. He on a very basic level
made man a free head, and man has abused his focal points.Right when Griffith Roberts was
Dean of Bangor, he expressed, "It was better for Adam that his hands were permitted to take the
precluded natural item, than that he should have been obliged to approach every one of the
seasons of his reality with his circumstance is definitely not confident notwithstanding his great

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confidence. “One of the God's magnificent benedictions to man is freedom, and sin went into the
earth when man mauled his advantage of chance.”
The issue of devilishness has associated with the thought of discerning people for a long
time. And with each war, starvation, pandemic of ailment, mind blowing life loss, has the
request, "If there is a God of friendship and kindness, for what reason does He permit so much
human continuing?" Let individuals have no hard opinions about the Supreme Lord in regards to
the issue of transgression and its running with trouble and persevering. In Holy Books and
Scripture Satan is seemed, by all accounts, to be the purpose behind savagery and its
continuation in the earth. The battling against deviousness isn't with delicate living animal and
blood yet against domains and authorities, in contradiction to the spirit hosts of fiendishness in
the spirit world (Ephesians 6:12). The ethics and great verdicts of us individuals exhibit that man
is underneath the supervision of an abominable power.
Atonement in its essential, religious sense is done all the time within the sight of a
clerical figure who conciliates an insulted divinity in the interest of the guilty party. The High
Priest in antiquated Judaism and Christ in Christianity are models. Christianity separates itself
from different societies and religions in that it has Christ executed vicariously as an extreme
forfeit for our atonement with God, while different societies and religions don't have their
particular consecrated figures slaughtered vicariously as penances. Christianity is additionally
one of a kind since it generally shows the requirement for the human blood of Christ, while
different religions and societies (with the exception of those old societies which rehearsed human
penances) have a tendency to have milder types of appeasement, for example, apology and at
most creature penances5.
5 Cavanagh, Lorraine. Making Sense of God's Love: Atonement and redemption. Vol. 2. SPCK, 2012.

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In the New Testament the association and relation of the atonement with various rituals
such as incense offering, animal sacrifice and paying of cash has been discontinued which was
previously there in the Old Testament. The new practices were mostly related to the person of
Jesus Christ and his life, death and resurrection. It is quite fair to say that the process of
atonement. The process of getting away from the sinful activities has been simplified in the
Christian religion in a devotional and God loving way rather than based on some religious
ritualistic principles. In the Old Testament when Jesus was still not present on the face of the
earth to guide the people and take them ahead in a spiritual journey, there were instances of
bloodshed, and other rituals that needed to be performed so that the freedom from the sinful
reactions could be achieved. The process has been made simpler with the advent of Jesus Christ
and when finally the system of atonement was simplified.
The earliest source in the apostolic preaching and the related dimension is Paul who had
given valuable information about the life and times of Jesus Christ. He had stated, "For I
delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in
accordance with the scriptures" (1 Cor. 15:3)6. Paul had envisioned the image of Jesus Christ as
the as the one who had achieved victory over the aspects like sin, rage, the evil spirits, and
demise, and furthermore utilized the illustration of the law court. For Paul the atoning demise
and resurrection went past the only human dimensions of salvation to include the universe of
spirits and of nature itself in its groaning and travail (Rom. 8:19– 23).
Paul grasped the ethical dilemma in all pondered the Atonement: How can a God of
holiness and righteousness acknowledge sinners without either destroying his holiness or
sentimentalizing his adoration by an immoral indifference to evil. As a former Pharisee, Paul
6 Pugh, Ben. Atonement Theories: A Way through the Maze. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2014.

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normally utilized legitimate dialect to describe faith in Christ. He utilized the dialect of the law
court provisionally, just to introduce the phrases in the process of effortlessness: God does not
ultimately, in Christ, manage humanity along the lines of retributive justice, which a human
judge is obliged by pledge to dispense. The revelation of God's righteousness "has been
manifested separated from law" (Rom. 3:21).

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Cavanagh, Lorraine. Making Sense of God's Love: Atonement and redemption. Vol. 2. SPCK,
2012.
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Eberhart, Christian A. The Sacrifice of Jesus: Understanding Atonement Biblically. Wipf and
Stock Publishers, 2018.
Kirwan, Michael, and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, eds. Mimesis and Atonement: René Girard and the
Doctrine of Salvation. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016.
Mann, Alan. Atonement for a Sinless Society. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2015.
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Century (2012): 213-223.
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Terry, Justyn. "The forgiveness of Sins and the Work of Christ: a Case for Substitutionary
Atonement." Anglican Theological Review 95, no. 1 (2013): 9-24.