tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2804757366135244776.post3105740908222391760..comments2024-02-24T22:22:10.312-05:00Comments on The Common Parlance: Atone v. ExpiateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2804757366135244776.post-22799544719442830262013-04-17T20:28:14.353-05:002013-04-17T20:28:14.353-05:00Atonement means that the Lord Jesus' death is ...Atonement means that the Lord Jesus' death is the way ("I am the way...", Lord Jesus says) whereby God gives absolute/complete forgiveness (since no absolute forgiveness given before Christ) to all offenses/sins a soul has done against God and man; if and only if, man expiates for his sins ("...no one can enter until he pays the last penny...", Lord Jesus says) by believing and obeying the Truth of our Jesus Christ ("I am the Truth...", and, "...that whoever believes in Him shall have eternal life", the Lord says). Thus, the Way and the Truth is that man must expiate for his sins before he can be atoned or given absolute/complete forgiveness. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2804757366135244776.post-64059217452633089052008-03-07T05:43:00.000-05:002008-03-07T05:43:00.000-05:00I have a slightly different sense of these two wor...I have a slightly different sense of these two words. I find expiate to equate more or less with "extinguish" -- when you expiate your sin you wipe the slate clean. When you atone for your sin, or wrongdoing or bad dietary habit, you offer up something equal in goodness to the bad you have done, and though the bad is still on the balance sheet, it is neutralized.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2804757366135244776.post-9980601498468200932008-03-07T05:42:00.000-05:002008-03-07T05:42:00.000-05:00I have a slightly different sense of these two wor...I have a slightly different sense of these two words. I find expiate to equate more or less with "extinguish" -- when you expiate your sin you wipe the slate clean. When you atone for your sin, or wrongdoing or bad dietary habit, you offer up something equal in goodness to the bad you have done, and though the bad is still on the balance sheet, it is neutralized.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com