The following statement on the doctrine of the Atonement was prepared by a group of brethren in Queensland and endorsed by the Brisbane and Wilston Ecclesias in July 1996. Other ecclesias have also found this document to be helpful in clarifying certain aspects of the important subject and it has …
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The Day of Atonement
The regulations concerning the Day of Atonement under the law of Moses are given in Leviticus chapter 16. This chapter begins with a remembrance of the death of the two sons of Aaron when they offered “strange fire” before Yahweh and were slain because of it. Arising from…
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This article looks at the nature which we have and which the Lord Jesus Christ also shared.
The Apostle’s Description
Hebrews 2:14 is very clear. We have a body of flesh and blood and, to take up Bro John Carter’s analysis, Jesus:
partook of the same nature,
likewise partook of the …
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Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden in shame and disgrace, mortally stricken because of sin and bearing in their bodies the ongoing consequence of a nature inclined to sin. It is a sad fact that by one offence death reigned; what a dismal emphasis that, in the body already doomed, the bias to sin w…
The apostle John comments that the “whole world lieth in wickedness” (1 John 5:19). When we contemplate such a comprehensive statement we might ask the question, “how could this be, seeing a loving God made ‘the world and all things therein’”? The answer lies in what happened in the gard…
In this series of articles there is the desire to express a balance of factors relevant to the Atonement. Since it is the central matter in God’s salvation for man it is of necessity that many issues and many principles meet together in this wonderful doctrine of the Atonement. There is something …
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