The dogma of the vicarious atonement has met with no success whatever among the Jews.
The idea of vicarious atonement, in any form, is contrary to Jewish ethics, but it is in full accord with the Gentile.
When Peter preached that great sermon on the day of Pentecost he says not one word about a vicarious atonement in the death of Christ, but lays the whole emphasis on his resurrection and ascension.
It has already been said that he nowhere makes the least reference to a vicarious atonement to be made by himself for the sins of world.
The theory of vicarious atonement is the child of cowardice and fear.
If a life that embraces this line of action does not fit a man for heaven, and if faith in vicarious atonement will, then such a heaven is not worth going to, and its god would be unworthy to make a good man's acquaintance.
Here is vicarious atonement in all its pristine glory.
The fact is, that the whole scheme of vicarious atonement is an ancient superstition, though taught in the New Testament, and is absurd and unphilosophical, and false in principle and in practice, as we shall hereafter show.
But it was left for Anselm of Canterbury, late in the eleventh century, to first formulate the doctrine of vicarious atonement.
He repudiated the doctrine of vicarious atonement.
There were two doctrines taught in connection with this deity which he especially abhorred--the doctrine of endless punishment, and the doctrine of vicarious atonement.
That he repudiated the doctrine of vicarious atonement is sustained by the testimony of Jesse W.
Here we have the origin of the doctrine of a Vicarious Atonement.
The fundamental doctrine of the Christian Church to-day is that of a vicarious atonement--a belief which takes away man's responsibility for his own misdeeds.
A heaven that is populated with those who see in vicarious atonement a happy arrangement for letting them in pleasantly and easily would not be worth having.
Nor is her tribunal cognizant of any plan of vicarious atonement, but in many cases partially are we visited with the penalties of our progenitors' disobedience to her immutable laws.
The prevalence in all of the Western countries since Constantine raised Christianity to the prominence of a State religion, of a belief in a scheme of vicarious atonement, has worked inestimable harm to the human race.
Above all, the idea of vicarious atonement must be abhorred as a false conceit, and human beings should be taught that, in the moral as in the physical world, consequences are always absolutely true to their antecedents.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vicarious atonement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
