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Mormonism and the atonement of Sins
If Jesus cannot forgive a sinful person, then must they pay the cost?
If Jesus cannot forgive a sinful person, then must they pay the cost?
Dictionary Meaning: The reconciliation of God and mankind through Jesus Christ. The action of making amends for a wrong or injury.
If Jesus blood was not good enough then the sinner will have to shed their own for their sins.
There is no biblical record of Jesus atoning for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane. The Garden is where He suffered greatly in prayer because He did not want to go through the coming ordeal of His beating and crucifixion. The agony of the Garden was so intense for Him that He apparently sweat blood (Luke 22:44). But, the only references in the Bible dealing with Christ and the atonement are in reference to the cross--not the Garden of Gethsemane.
- Reconciliation is through the cross:
- "And might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity." (Eph. 2:16).
- "And through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven." (Col. 1:20).
- Our debt nailed to the cross
- "Having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." (Col. 2:14).
- He bore our sins on the cross
- "And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed." (1 Pet. 2:24).
- Reconciled through Christ's death--which occurred on the cross.
- "For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." (Rom. 5:10).
- "Yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--," (Col. 1:22).
Paul says, "For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." (1 Cor. 2:2). He does not mention anything, ever, about Jesus bearing our sins in the Garden. He only mentions sins in relation to the cross of Christ. Wherein did God purchase the church with His own blood (Acts 20:28)? It was the cross--not the Garden.