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Studies on Strong Doctrine

CHAPTER SIX

THE ATONEMENT

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INTRODUCTION

1.         T          F          Perhaps one thing that has led to more erroneous theories of the atonement than any thing else, is a defective view of sin.

2.         Viewed from the human standpoint, sin is the greatest calamity that could befall mankind, and so this present chapter will move upon the assumption of the following things:

a.             The whole human race was in Adam ____________.

b.             That Adam did ____________, ____________ and ____________ take of the forbidden fruit in the garden.

c.              This act was fraught with the most fearful consequences in that it brought a state of ____________ upon the whole human race.

d.             This condition cannot be modified nor remedied by any internal ____________, ____________ or ____________ of man himself.

e.             This state of ____________ is total reaching to all faculties of man bringing them all under the ____________ of sin.

f.               Man’s ____________, ____________ and ____________ are all in a state of sinful bondage from which they cannot be freed, nor made to operate in a ____________ manner.

g.             That therefore the only possible remedy for this fearful state of man is the ____________.

3.         T          F          Though there are many facets and aspects of the atonement, mostly they are expressive of a distinct side of the redemptive work of Christ.

SECTION I

THE ATONEMENT PREMISED

4.         T          F          The word atonement is a compound word that implies the state of being at one, in unity, or at peace with some one.

5.         T          F          The doctrine of the atonement has its roots in the Old Testament as prefigured in the laws of Deuteronomy.

6.         The atonement is and does the following:

a.         It relates to former ____________.

b.         The ____________ is accomplished by the death of Christ.

c.         Those ____________ will be ____________.

d.         The reconciliation is wholly the ____________ of ____________.

7.         T          F          The atonement is not based upon anything seen or foreseen in man, but solely upon God’s purposes and His love for His unworthy creatures.

8.         The gospel has its bases in three redemptive acts of Jesus. These acts are:

a.         His ____________ life.

b.         His ____________.

c.         His ____________.

9.         The atonement consists of three parts. These parts are:

a.         ____________.

b.         ____________.

c.         ____________.

10.       What is meant by the act of propitiation consists of:

a.         It has to do with ____________.

b.         It is God’s ____________ for sin.

c.         It is provided because of God’s ____________ for us.

d.         It was to be a propitiation only through ____________ in his blood.

e.         It is God’s declaration of Christ’s righteousness for the ____________ of sins that are ____________.

f.          it is not an act of debt to many but is come only in the ____________ of God.

11.       T          F          The very meaning of the word reconciliation is not some abstract thing that may or may not be accepted, but that it is the actual application of the saving work of Christ to the soul.

12.       The word "redemption" contains three key ideas:

a.         It is a ____________.

b.         It is a ____________.

c.         It is a ____________.

13.       T          F          The atonement is a sacrifice that has been made for every member of Adam’s fallen race.

14.       T          F          Baptists of the past believed that the atonement was particular; that is, that the blood of Christ was shed with particular individuals in mind who would be the recipients of the redemptive work of Christ.

15.       All that are given to Christ will come to him is known as ____________ ____________. Those who are give to Christ by the Father in their covenant of redemption is referred to as ____________ ____________.

16.       Natural man is unable to will that which is good for the following reasons:

a.         Man is in ____________ to Satan.

b.         Man is totally ____________.

c.         Spiritual things are ____________ to man.

d.         Man cannot be ____________ to the law of God.

e.         Man has no desire to be ____________.

 

SECTION II
THE ATONEMENT PROPOSED

17.       From Ephesians 3:8-12, the following things may be noted:

18.       T          F          The redemptive program of Christ is a result of God’s covenant which dates from eternity past.

19.       T          F          God regards several covenants that are found in Scriptures.

20.       T          F          The redemptive work of Christ has been completed since the foundation of the world, so God has had a purpose to redeem fallen man since before man came into existence.

21.       Since words such as ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________ (from the beginning), and ____________, all point up the purposing of a redemptive plan for man antecedent to the creation of man, and so is unrelated to man’s character or works.

22.       T          F          Christ is here called a covenant of the people because He is the one upon whom rests the conditions for the fulfillment of the covenant of redemption.

23.       Genesis 3:21 beautifully depicts the atonement in that:

a.             ____________ represents the sinner’s spiritual state before God.

b.             Man did nothing to ____________ his situation.

c.             These coats of skins required the ____________ of the animals and the ____________ of their ____________.

24.       T          F          The prophecy of the Old Testament prophets, leave us little room to question that God had made known to Israel that He had purposed an atoning sacrifice for the sins of men.

25.       What God purposes to do in His "determinate counsels," He brings to pass; this is what ____________ is.

26.       T          F          Satan attempted to thwart God’s redemptive plan through the birth of Ishmael.

27.       T          F          The Covenant of Grace comprehends all the designs and transactions respecting the redemption of man by Jesus Christ, in opposition to the covenant of works, or law of works.

SECTION III
THE ATONEMENT PREFIGURED

28.       The tabernacle was a type of ____________ ____________, which were revealed to Moses to be copied by him.

29.       T          F          The Tabernacle and its sacrifices, services and holy days was a foreshadowing of the Messiah and His redemptive work.

30.       T          F          No one understands spiritual things through his intellectual abilities, but only as the Lord reveals it to him.

31.       T          F          The truth of redemption was pictorially represented to men in the tabernacle rituals and sacrifices.

32.       This prefigurement of the atonement is considered from three views:

33.       T          F          The first sacrifices which were made by man that we have a record of, is when Cain and Abel brought their sacrifices to the Lord.

34.       There were five great offerings ordained under the Mosaic law:

35.       T          F          The burnt offering was fulfilled in the redemptive work of Christ through His devotion to the will of His Father.

36.       T          F          The Meat Offering was bloodless, and was directly related to the atonement.

37.       T          F          The Peace Offering pictures the result of Christ’s atoning work.

38.       T          F          the Sin Offering was provided for the nature of sin, or the sin principle.

39.       T          F          The Trespass Offering was for the sins of nature, or sin practices.

40.       The Atonement Prefigured in the Services is meant by all the ____________, ____________ and ____________ involved in the worship of the tabernacle.

41.       T          F          The priesthood work of Christ was prefigured in Aaron.

42.       T          F          In the Book of Hebrews, Christ is both compared and contrasted with the Levitical high priests.

43.       There were seven pieces of furniture in the Tabernacle and the adjacent court:

 

a.      The ____________ of the ____________.

b.      The ____________ ____________.

c.      The ____________ of ____________.

d.      The ____________ of the ____________.

e.      The ____________.

f.        The ____________ ____________.

g.      The ____________ ____________.

44.       T          F          The Brazen Altar was where sacrifices were brought to be offered as a burnt

45.       T          F          Brazen Laver, polished into mirror brightness, speaks of self-judgment by the Christian as he looks into the mirror of God’s Word.

46.       The Golden Candlestick symbolized Christ, not just as the “Light of the world” but as the ____________ ____________.

47.       The Table of Shewbread suggests two things:

a.      ____________.

b.      ____________.

48.       The Incense Altar ____________ and ____________, and Christ as ____________prays for those who are included in the atonement.

49.       T          F          The Ark of the Covenant the golden pot of manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the two tables of stone.

50.       T          F          The Mercy Seat was the cover to the Ark and was made of wood covered with gold.

51.       The Sabbaths declared in Leviticus 23 are:

a.      The ____________ Sabbath.

b.      The ____________ Sabbath.

c.      The ____________ Sabbaths.

d.      The ____________ Sabbath.

e.      The ____________ ____________Sabbath.

52.       T          F          The Feast of the Passover was the first of these seven great annual feasts, and it was commemorative of Israel’s deliverance out of Egyptian bondage.

53.       T          F          The feast of Unleavened Bread pictures Christ’s sinlessness as a sacrificial lamb.

54.       T          F          The Feast of Firstfruits took place in the end of harvest, and it was an acknowledgement of God’s bounty in giving them the crops.

55.       The Feast of Pentecost was fifty days after the presentation of the ____________ of the ____________, when a new meat offering was presented to the Lord.

56.       T          F          The Feast of Trumpets was the fifth of the great feast days, and it fell on the first day of the seventh month with the blowing of the trumpet signifying the Lord’s second advent.

57.       T          F          The Feast of Atonement and was a day of affliction of soul and mourning.

58.       T          F          The Feast of Tabernacles speaks of this having to do with the beginning of God’s dealings with man.

SECTION IV
THE ATONEMENT PURCHASED

 

59.       The Atonement was purchased:

a.             by ____________.

b.             by ____________ on the ____________.

c.             ____________ by ____________.

60.       T          F          His present mediatorship in heaven is based upon His having shed his blood for the redemption of the sins committed by those who were under the old works covenant.

61.       Christ accomplished this ____________, not while under any kind of ____________, but while acting freely and ____________; otherwise the atonement would have had no value for man.

62.       T          F          Christ’s primary purpose for coming to the earth, suffering and being crucified, and any view that places anything else as the primary goal of His incarnation, is an inadequate view of it.

63.       T          F          Jesus being the mediator of a new covenant, is evidence that the atonement was both Godward and manward.

64.       T          F          Christ had to bear the suffering and the curse of the cross to accomplish an atonement that would do man any good.

65.       The cross was ____________ as the ____________ of Christ’s death from the very beginning.

66.       The importance of the work of Christ upon the cross is to be seen in that it procured ____________ of ____________ for man.

67.       T          F          The death that Christ died upon the cross was an unique death.

68.       Jesus’ death upon the cross was as a ____________ ____________.

69.       The ____________ ____________ of Christ was not a half-way measure; what He set out to do, He accomplished, and He was possessed of ____________ ____________ in the fulfilling of this plan, so that there was nothing wanting when this ____________ was completed.

70.       T          F          Jesus was alone in this great transaction, and man contributed nothing but the sins that crucified the Lord.

71.       T          F          Faith itself is the gift of God and it is a consequence of the new birth, and not the cause of it.

72.       The redemptive work of Christ is complete also in the sense that it is ____________ ____________.

73.       T          F          The completeness of Christ’s atoning work is also to be seen in its sufficiency for any man, in any circumstance.

SECTION V
THE ATONEMENT PERVERTED

 

74.       T          F          The root of every false theory of the atonement lies in the fact that man is unwilling to confess and repudiate his sinfulness.

75.       There are seven different theories of the Atonement. These are:

a.             The ____________ Theory.

b.             The ____________ Theory.

c.             The ____________ Theory.

d.             The ____________ Theory.

e.             The ____________ ____________ ____________ Theory.

f.               The ____________ ____________ Theory.

g.             The ____________ Theory.

76        T          F          This theory held that the atonement was a ransom paid to the devil.

77.       The Satisfaction Theory held the sufferings of Christ were only a ____________ for which guilty men were released and justified.

78.       T          F          The Example Theory holds that Christ’s suffering and death was nothing more than an example of devotion to the truth.

79.       Those who hold the ____________ ____________, also deny the ____________ of Jesus Christ. Another error which also accompanies this erroneous view of the atonement, is the exaggerated view of man’s ability to ____________ his own ____________, and to reverse the ravages of ____________.

80.       T          F          The Socinian theory denies that there is any need of an atonement from the Godward side, and that the sense of sin, guilt and condemnation is all in the mind of man, and that all that is needed is for something to remove this from man.

81.       The ____________ theory also proceeds upon an erroneous concept of sin itself, making it to be something altogether within the power of man to ____________.

82.       T          F          Another erroneous concept that is involved in the Socinian theory is the idea that God’s benevolence can be exercised toward man in forgiving him without anything being done to satisfy His injured justice.

83.       The Socinian theory is an ____________ ____________ of the atonement; it is a virtual ____________ that there is any such thing as an ____________.

84.       ____________ regarded the sufferings of Christ, not as a ____________ ____________ for the sins of the redeemed, but as an accepted or a ____________ ____________, on account of which penalty could be safely remitted.

85.       T          F          The Governmental Theory includes all of the Scriptures which speak of the need for a propitiation from the Godward side.

86.       T          F          The Theory of Gradually Extirpated Depravity holds that, in his incarnation, Christ took human nature as it was in Adam, not before the Fall, but after the Fall.

87.       T          F          The Theory of Gradually Extirpated Depravity states that Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, or of his divine nature, not only kept his human nature from manifesting itself in any actual or personal sin, but gradually purified it through struggle and suffering, until in his death he completely extirpated its original depravity, and reunited it to God.

88.       This ____________ ____________ of human nature in the person of Jesus Christ constitutes his atonement, and men are saved, not by any ____________ ____________, but only by becoming through ____________ partakers of Christ’s new humanity.

89.       T          F          The Theory of Gradually Extirpated Depravity errs in its view of the incarnation of Christ, for it made Him to be possessed with a sinful nature, something the Scriptures deny.

90.       The Theory of Gradually Extirpated Depravity views the ____________ more as a ____________ than as a ____________ ____________ accomplished for men.

91.       T          F          The Theory of Moral Influences’ chief characteristic is its claim that in the atoning work of Christ no necessity of the divine nature was met. The aim of the atonement was rather to influence men to repent.

92.       The Theory of Moral Influence rejects the ____________ and ____________ character of the death of Christ. Because of this, the theory has found particular welcome among the ____________ and the ____________ of the present day.

93.       T          F          The Theory of Moral Influence proceeds upon an erroneous view of the character of God, for it assumes that He takes no offence at sin, and that He holds no sin against the sinner, but has already forgiven all sins.

94.       T          F          The Theory of Moral Influence is in error in that it holds that Christ suffers in his stead instead of suffering with man.

95.       The Theory of Moral Influence ignores the ____________ and ____________ aspect as regards God the Father.

96.       T          F          The Ethical theory is based upon the fact of Christ’s union with humanity which obligated Him to suffer for men, but this is not to say that Christ was personally a sinner; this the ethical theory does not teach.

97.       If there is a fault in the Ethical theory, it lies in not emphasizing the ____________ ____________ of the ____________ to the extent that the Scriptures do.