blood put an end to every other shedding of blood, which anyone might do or wish to do in order to atone

But none of them could actually atone (make payment) for their sin.

I believe that God, because of Christ’s atonement, will never hold against me any of my sins nor my sinful

But since Christ's atonement ended the curse, the separation necessary between sinful man and our holy

your faithful Savior ..." is just as much a central doctrine of Christianity as is substitutionary atonement

Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 21: The Atonement We believe that

big one, summarizing some of the Bible's most awesome examples of how it is that Christ's death could atone

The sacrifices we just read about were not sacrifices of atonement meant to symbolize payment for sin

the gap between sinful man and their holy God, and demonstrating how that gap could only be closed by atonement

The way that the Torah describes it over and over, the animals offered to atone for sin had to be without