The Blood Atonement.
The third part of the Christian dogma of the Atone-
ment is that Jesus paid the penalty for the original and
other sins of men by death on the cross of Calvary,
and that salvation cannot be had without belief in the
saving power of blood. This is what we read in the
First Epistle of St. Peter : "Forasmuch as ye know that
ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as sil-
ver and gold... but with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot."l..
And this is what two modern Christian Apologists (a
Protestant and a Roman Catholic) have written :
"Wepass on now to the doctrine of theAto,,ement.
which is that Christ's death was in some sense a sacri-
fice for sin, and thus reconciled (or made 'at--one') God
the Father and sinful man. And though not actually stat-
ed in the Creeds, it is implied in the words, was cruci-
fied also for us. and who suffered for our salvation.’2
1.The Bible. I Peter, 1:18,19
- W.H. Turton, The Truth of Christianity,P.289