What Exactly Was Accomplished At The Cross?

[mkgal1]

Thanks for posting the explanation. Pictorial representation has been used for centuries and was particularly necessary in the days when most people were illiterate.

Even for those of us that CAN read now - pictures and music are both so much better than words most of the time.

As someone who likes to draw; I find religious art fascinating. The symbolism is rich with information; and "a picture is worth a thousand words" really does hold true. Even if as a Protestant, iconography is not part of my tradition; I still like to look at it and see if I can figure out what the picture is saying.

Exactly. I completely agree. GO is not my tradition either, but I learned about it from a friend and really appreciate the theology behind the icons (and the expression).

 

[Maria Billingsley]

I'm hoping to see some responses of more than one, brief statement or sentence.
Thanks, in advance, for your thoughtful participation.

To restore the relationship lost between man and God in the garden of Eden through the last and final sacrifice of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Blessings

 

[Guojing]

I'm hoping to see some responses of more than one, brief statement or sentence.
Thanks, in advance, for your thoughtful participation.

Derek Prince in his free ebook "divine exchange" explains it the best

https://www.derekprince.org/Publisher/File.aspx?ID=1000039342

 

[D.A. Wright]

So if you know the answer to the question; then why are you asking?

Because I was curious as to what your answer to this specific question would be.

So would you say, then, that the entire process of atonement was accomplished at the cross?

 

[D.A. Wright]

Derek Prince in his free ebook "divine exchange" explains it the best

What would you say it is that makes his explanation best?

 

[Antoni]

One important consequence: By dying on the cross, the Son took the all important step of entering into Hades to preach the Gospel there and then when that was complete, to destroy the gates of hell so that the power of death would no longer hold dominion over man, and thus make a general resurrection possible for all who have or will ever die bodily.

 

[D.A. Wright]

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[D.A. Wright]

One important consequence: By dying on the cross, the Son took the all important step of entering into Hades to preach the Gospel there and then when that was complete, to destroy the gates of hell so that the power of death would no longer hold dominion over man, and thus make a general resurrection possible for all who have or will ever die bodily.

How could the Gospel be preached to dead people?

 

[Antoni]

How could the Gospel be preached to dead people?

I don’t know. That is much higher than my pay grade. St. Paul talks of it right in the Bible.

 

[GraceBro]

I'm hoping to see some responses of more than one, brief statement or sentence.
Thanks, in advance, for your thoughtful participation.

What was accomplished at the cross was that "God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them (2 Corinthians 5:19)." The sin issue is over between man and God. For Christians, it means ""Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary (Hebrews 10:17-18)."" Therefore, we should put away are confession booths, our short accounts, our altar calls, quit our repetitive prayers, or whatever bloodless sacrifice we come up with that God is no longer requiring or accepting. For the unbeliever, it simply means acknowledge their need for the forgiveness He has provided them and come to faith in Jesus Christ and receive the life of God they need to be restored to them. "For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life (Romans 5:10)!" The only thing separating an unbeliever from Jesus Christ is their unbelief. A person won't go to hell because of their sins, they will go to hell because they are spiritually dead in their sin of unbelief. "It is finished (John 19:30)!"

 

[D.A. Wright]

I don’t know. That is much higher than my pay grade. St. Paul talks of it right in the Bible.

It is cited in 1 Peter 3:19, and neither the Gospel nor Hades is mentioned.

 

[Antoni]

It is cited in 1 Peter 3:19, and neither the Gospel nor Hades is mentioned.

You are correct. It wasn’t St. Paul. It was St. Peter. I’m sure St Paul and all the other Apostles taught the same as well.

Hades is not mentioned, but it is what he means by ‘the spirits in prison’.

This is the patristic teaching, namely that Christ went into Hades and preached the Gospel there after He died on the cross.

 

[The Righterzpen]

It is cited in 1 Peter 3:19, and neither the Gospel nor Hades is mentioned.

Hades is not mentioned, but it is what he means by ‘the spirits in prison’.

Hades as related to Christ, is mentioned in Psalm 16:10 and Acts 2:27 & 31
And when connected to this passage in Peter; this is where that understanding comes from.

 

[The Righterzpen]

Because I was curious as to what your answer to this specific question would be.

What I'm looking for is personal expositions based upon Scripture, not denomination-specific parroting of clichéd dogma.

My personal understanding of what happened at the cross is a reverse of what happened in the Garden of Eden.

Adam and Eve's sin:
1. broke their fellowship with God.
2. Made them (and all of the rest of humanity) subject to eternal punishment.
3. Brought about their eventual physical death.

The atonement:
1. Restored fellowship between sinners and God. (Christ being the mediator.)
2. Delivered sinners from the consequence of their sin. (Both in breaking the power of sin in this life; as well as Jesus taking their stead that satisfied the wrath of God.)
3. Will one day bring about the recreation of life that is incorruptible.

What actually happened to Jesus was:
1. He was forsaken of the Spirit and Father because he became the sin sacrifice.
2. He endured the wrath of God as the sin sacrifice. He over came that state of eternal punishment because he as God incarnate had an aspect of his existence that was eternal itself. Plus He being the whole of God was greater than the wrath which is an outcropping of God's demand for justice because of His righteousness. This is how Jesus overcame the eternal wrath of God and why he is not still in hell.
Now because of God's righteousness; the Father could not ultimately condemn Jesus as a sinner, when he himself had committed no sin. That would have been a violation of God's holiness and a gross miscarriage of justice in God's eyes.
3. The last enemy to be overcome was death. Jesus proved he'd conquered death when he rose from the grave.

There is my non-denominational simplified explanation of the atonement.

 

[Guojing]

What would you say it is that makes his explanation best?

The idea of Substitutionary atonement is covered with lots of different examples and scripture in that book

 

[AbbaLove]

My question is:

What Exactly Was Accomplished At The Cross?​

John 21:25 (also see John 1:1-14)​

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail,

I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.​

Enuf said
​

 

[D.A. Wright]

John 21:25 (also see John 1:1-14)​

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail,

I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.​

Enuf said
​

Beautiful

 

[Frosty Cook]

I'm hoping to see some responses of more than one, brief statement or sentence.
Thanks, in advance, for your thoughtful participation.

John Chapter 6 Jesus says that he came to do his Fathers will. and that his Father's will was for him to be a sacrifice for those that the Father gave him, and that all that he died for he will raise up at the last day. We know that the scriptures will uphold the fact that some of mankind will go to hell, so, he did not die for all mankind.

 

[D.A. Wright]

John Chapter 6 Jesus says that he came to do his Fathers will. and that his Father's will was for him to be a sacrifice for those that the Father gave him, and that all that he died for he will raise up at the last day. We know that the scriptures will uphold the fact that some of mankind will go to hell, so, he did not die for all mankind.

Ah, now we're getting somewhere.

But He did die for all mankind. In fact, He died for the whole universe.

Think about it.

Why didn't Eve fall over dead as soon as she disobeyed God?
Why are people who are never going to respond to God's grace allowed to go on living and sinning?
Why didn't Lucifer die the moment he had his 1st selfish thought?
Is salvation for human beings the only thing Calvary purchased?
When the judgment is over, and Eden is restored, with the New Jerusalem resting on earth, what will prevent rebellion from rising the 2nd time? Abracadabra?
Perfect angelic sinless nature failed in Heaven.
Perfect sinless human nature failed in Eden.
Think, think.

Calvary is the eternal antidote for sin.

 

[Jonaitis]

I'm hoping to see some responses of more than one, brief statement or sentence.
Thanks, in advance, for your thoughtful participation.

Redemption from and Reconciliation to God. We had to be saved from God, to be right with God.