How To Use Atonement In A Sentence

The two offerings together symbolized a community of people at peace with God because atonement for sins had been made.
It needed expiation - atonement to remove guilt and the liability of punishment.
And now this settlement and atonement was handselled and was well kept afterwards. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
True Christianity is about judgment, atonement and forgiveness and NOT unreciprocated outreach contrary to what the beardie-weirdie and his acolytes might say. How Do Y0u Solve A Problem Like Sharia
Besides the goat offered for the people the blood of which was sprinkled before the mercy seat, the high priest led forth a second goat, namely, the scapegoat; over it he confessed the people's sins, putting them on the head of the goat, which was sent as the sin-bearer into the wilderness out of sight, implying that the atonement effected by the goat sin offering (of which the ceremony of the scapegoat is a part, and not distinct from the sin offering) consisted in the transfer of the people's sins on the goat, and their consequent removal out of sight. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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Look around you for pictures that you really like, and in buying which you can help some genius yet unperished -- that is the best atonement you can make to the one you have neglected -- and give to the living and struggling painter at once wages, and testimonial. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
His death made a perfect and full atonement for sin.
The end of His reconciling atonement by death. holy -- positively; and in relation to God. unblamable ... unreprovable -- negatively. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
A number of theologians have recently articulated a vision of the atonement in similar images.
They deny both the necessity and the validity of atonement by the death of the Cross, and affirm that its propitiation is not necessary to salvation.
Yom Kippur begins tonight, a time of atonement for Jews.
The denominative verb which is to make an atonement, make reconciliation, or to purge is or Kapar.
Formerly I had fasted and prayed and made sacrifice on the Day of Atonement, but it was more than half play, in mimicry of my elders. The Promised Land
I can understand the Day of Atonement, because it is a day of forgiveness and pardon and on it the second Tablets of the Law were given.
How much more while the antitypical atonement is going on in heaven, should those who minister in sacred things be holy.
Then Thorgeir handselled a truce to Flosi and his men, as a step to a meeting for atonement; but Hall did the same on behalf of Flosi and the sons of Sigfus. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
He's living in a monastery in a gesture of atonement for human rights abuses committed under his leadership.
The priest is a representative of his people, making atonement for their sin.
vicarious atonement
This he pleads with his Father, for his intercession is made in the virtue of his satisfaction; by his own blood he entered into the holy place (Heb.ix. 12), as the high priest, on the day of atonement, sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice at the same time that he burnt incense within the veil, Lev. xvi. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
A major problem with Wright is that, if he does hold to Christ's vicarious atonement, he believes Christ died for and will save all men.
He is the High Priest who makes full and final atonement for the sins of His people.
On the tenth day of the seventh month there was a special annual ceremony of confession and atonement for sin.
Aaron and Jesus Christ are the type and antitype for the high priest who made atonement for the sins of the people
Mithra was slain upon a cross in Persia to make atonement for humankind and take away the sins of the world.
The iconography of the Liege statuette further refutes the notion that it could have been offered in atonement.
Regarding the Atonement, he asked: ‘How can the guilt of one man be expiated by the death of another who is sinless - if indeed one may speak of a sinless man at all?’
Yet at the same time they deny the doctrine of the Trinity, of the Incarnation, of the Atonement, and of justification by faith alone.
Confronting sin, Arthur struggles against the conflict of humanity and godhood, and finally comes to confess his sin and repent in the call of God's grace, hence attaining atonement in his death.
Shouldn't God judge man after he has repented, after there has been atonement for his sins?
As ready as he is to make amends, and as ready as his siblings are to accept that, all that is needed, in dramatic terms is the symbolic enaction of atonement and acceptance. Archive 2009-01-01
As a pilgrimage of humility, as the beginning of an act of atonement. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
Like most of us, Jeannie had grown up believing that there was something intrinsically wrong with her and that, by way of atonement and being accepted, she had to work hard to be good.
The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to the Lord by fire.
He said that young hooligans should do community service as atonement for their crimes.
Ronan, who starred in The Lovely Bones, will reteam with Wright, having previously worked on Atonement together. Eric Bana to Star in Joe Wright’s Assassin Pic HANNA – Collider.com
The work of the atonement is a substitutionary work of Christ in behalf and instead of sinful man.
Nor need feminists and womanists worry unduly in this case about the tendency of atonement models to foster one-sided and narrow prescriptions for human action by elevating certain features of the cross to salvific status.
The death that is in the curse is put into his hand to manage it, to the dread and terror of sinners; and by it he bath always kept many, and to this day doth keep innumerable souls in unexpressible bondage, putting them upon barbarous inhumanities to make atonement for their sins, and forcing some to inflict revenge and destruction upon themselves, thinking to prevent, but really hastening, that which they fear. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Therefore, every being must at length be saved from misery, if not by redemptive atonement then by absolvent annihilation, and one absolute heaven finally absorb the dwindling hells. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, "so all atonements ever made were only effectual by His blood" [Bishop Pearson, Exposition of the Creed]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
On another day, I might have been lucky even to be shown his body, and that only in atonement. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Gifts of atonement for "surquedry," like that of Agamemnon, are given and received in the French epics, for example, in the [blank space]. Homer and His Age
Stott seeks out to explain the significance of the Cross and answers the objections commonly brought against Biblical teaching on the atonement.
Is this an act of atonement or a cozying up to future journalists?
_punish_ sin while at the same time He _pardons_ it, -- can punish it in the Substitute while He pardons it in the sinner, -- it is not until he is enabled to apprehend the doctrine of _vicarious_ atonement, that his doubts and fears respecting the possibility and reality of the Divine mercy are removed. Sermons to the Natural Man
The Misna on which this Gloss is hath these words; "Every day they remove the ashes from the altar about cockcrowing; but on the day of atonement at midnight," &c. From the Talmud and Hebraica
Their chance for atonement came on Monday night when they travelled to Redlands to take on the Rovers in a rescheduled match from the washed-out Round 9.
The December after he died I gave my deer rifle back to the man from whom Papa bought it and I actively contribute to various wildlife funds as an act of atonement.
I mean to destroy the Phaeton, and in this act of atonement to hasten the removal of the anti-ice curse from Earth. ANTI-ICE
The day may have recalled their atonement. The Tribes Triumphant
Confronting sin, Arthur struggles against the conflict of humanity and godhood, and finally comes to confess his sin and repent in the call of God's grace, hence attaining atonement in his death.
Only on one occasion in the reign has an action of the Emperor's afforded ground for the suspicion that he was for a moment filled with the spirit of the Byzantine emperors -- namely, when he demanded the "kotow" from the Chinese Prince Tschun, who led the "mission of atonement" to Germany. William of Germany
The first was symbol of the atonement the 2nd was to symbol the carrying away of sins.
Incensed at the shameful slaughter of his son, Harald Harfagr came over from Norway about the year 900 to avenge him, but, as was then not unusual, accepted as a wergeld or atonement for his son's death a fine of sixty marks of gold, which it fell to the islanders to pay. Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
They receive a free pardon from God for all their sins - past, present and future - through the death of Christ as an offering and atonement for sin.
He is so nicknamed because he never stops talking of Crime and Punishment, guilt and atonement.
Still, even if expressed by a metaphor some might find ostentatious, vicarious atonement as a concept was nothing outlandish in first-century Jerusalem.
W. H. Auden said:"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures. So that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf, demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
Christ's role as the Justifier takes primacy over that of Christ as Second Adam or the sacrificial lamb of the atonement.
On some occasions, a kid goat was also offered as atonement for the sins of the Hebrews.
On some occasions, a kid goat was also offered as atonement for the sins of the Hebrews.
There were no songs that he knew of to be sung for the Day of Atonement, only the mourner's Kaddish. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Include one male goat sin offering to make atonement for you.
The priest is a representative of his people, making atonement for their sin.
In that sense, the atonement is universal and not particular or limited. Christianity Today
Another statement that gets at the Buddhist appreciation for language is the Verse of Atonement: "All harmful karma ever caused by me since of old, on account of my beginningless greed, anger and ignorance born of my body, mouth and thought, now I atone for it all. Bernie Glassman: Arising To The Interconnectedness Of Life
He's living in a monastery in a gesture of atonement for human rights abuses committed under his leadership.
It affirms the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures, original sin, substitutionary atonement and justification by faith.
But the Calvinistic concept of "limited atonement" whichsome have been indoctrinated with, doesn't go along with thisreasoning, as also is the case with a number of other concepts inCalvinism.
Nonetheless, the Christian doctrine of sin and atonement brought through Jesus' death goes way beyond the symbolism of the scapegoat.
But this book, McEwan's grandest and most ambitious yet, is much more than the story of a single act of atonement.
What emerges from this sulphurous brew is hugely funny and upsetting - a tale of disappointed revenge and unexpected atonement.
Little Menie was the first person to whom he made the amende honorable; and a much smaller propitiation than the new doll with which he presented her would have been accepted as an atonement for a much greater offence. The Surgeon's Daughter
It is precisely here where the peculiarities of atonement and forgiveness may have to be considered, along with a specific reference to the circumstances.
It affirms the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures, original sin, substitutionary atonement and justification by faith.
Heb. 9:12 tallies Christ's work with the atonement ritual in the Levitical code. His blood was shed on earth, which the brazen altar typified.
The original of the word atone, or make atonement, In the Hebrew scripture, carries no such idea of expiation. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
On the tenth day of the seventh month there was a special annual ceremony of confession and atonement for sin.
Though what she didn't know, and what made her observation all the more accurate, was that I had drunk too much whisky the night before and thus was engaged in a classic Calvinist act of atonement.
It is a day devoted to atonement, introspection and self-examination.
For instance, they do not ask whose interests are served through doctrines of universal salvation or limited atonement.
Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
Running parallel to the steelworks is the sandy, windswept beach where fans come to see where scenes from Atonement were filmed. Times, Sunday Times
Such a question requires only a basic understanding of the Atonement to answer.
Confronting sin, Arthur struggles against the conflict of humanity and godhood, and finally comes to confess his sin and repent in the call of God's grace, hence attaining atonement in his death.
There he cleansed the temple, prefiguring his great atonement for sin, making us fit for communion with God.
Marked by the blowing of a ram horn known as the shofar in Hebrew, the holiday begins a 10-day period of repentance and reflection that ends with Yom Kippur, the day of atonement that is considered the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. PhillyClout
Yet at the same time they deny the doctrine of the Trinity, of the Incarnation, of the Atonement, and of justification by faith alone.
Is it an act of atonement, manipulation, or self preservation?
Without giving too much away, "The Debt" is ultimately dissatisfying because the alleged heroes aren't really accomplishing anything, not even atonement. Tense but Flawed, 'Debt' Defaults on Drama
The day may have recalled their atonement. The Tribes Triumphant
How do you define the nature of that atonement or propitiation which Jesus Christ made?
Yet that still does not amount to full atonement for what he did.
Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
Akerman recites this text against a background of the traditional cantorial melody for Kol Nidre, a prayer for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
Like McEwan's Amsterdam, Atonement and Enduring Love, Saturday turns on a single event that forever alters its characters' lives.
The Fast of Atonement was instituted in expiation of a mortal sin and observed as a day of penance and mourning.
Atonement may very well be an accomplished film with its stunning beach scene but Knightley's portrayal of Cecilia is completely underwhelming and unbelievable and the film spends more of a focus on her pouting than on the intricacies of the characters, mainly Briony in her younger years. Join the Great Adaptations discussion now!
(enantiodromia) to the patriarchal tyranny of the Roman Church in which vicarious atonement as power rather than love is replaced by active "Soul-making" in which the psyche assumes full responsibility for its own salvation. Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology
To pursue this line of thought further would be to construct a whole theology of redemption and atonement.
On his first coming he provided the blood atonement for sin which opened up a way for believers to have close relationship with HaShem and receive salvation as Yeshua's name implied. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Now they have an opportunity to underscore that atonement with a few well-placed phone calls in defense of democracy and the rule of law.
British wartime drama Atonement had been expected to sweep the board after gaining a record 14 nominations. The Sun
What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?
God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement through faith in his blood.
The question, therefore, concerning ‘the nature of the atonement’ depends on the question of whether there is in God such an attribute as distributive or vindicatory justice.
To the superstitions of the North Britons must be added their peculiar and characteristic amusements; and here we have some atonement to make to the memory of the learned Paulus Pleydell, whose compotatory relaxations, better information now inclines us to think, we mentioned with somewhat too little reverence. Famous Reviews
Ministry out together, "exclaiming," It is time that atonement should be made to the betrayed honor of Parliament and of England. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
There are elaborate rituals of atonement to be found there.
So there is also a loss of the fear of God, and the judgement to come, and the precious atonement for our sins.
A major departure for a director known for very proper British fare—including "Pride and Prejudice" and "Atonement"—"Hanna" is quite the improper little package, stylish, rich in singular images and one that carries itself with both the bravado of a spy thriller and the winsomeness of a fairy tale. 'Arthur': He Drinks, Movie Falls Down
Is this an act of atonement or a cozying up to future journalists?
Most of all you felt they looked like a team on a mission of atonement.
It is to make atonement to the Most Scared Heart for all the sins of the world and to implore His grace and mercy for every family in the Ferrybank Parish.
Surely, at the heart of salvation is the cross of Christ; but, regrettably, how easy it is for evangelicals to reduce the meaning and significance of Christ's death by minimizing substitutionary atonement.
From God's perspective Christ died and his atonement is practically effective for the elect who come to know him through the cross.
This is a plain intimation that in the days of the Messiah an end should be put, not only to the sacrifices of atonement, but to those of praise and acknowledgment which were instituted by the ceremonial law; and, instead of them, spiritual sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving are accepted -- the calves of our lips, not the calves of the stall, Heb. xiii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Nashe's attitude to his fate is fatalistic, he accepts that his freedom is taken from him and the building of the wall becomes a kind of atonement.
He had a bit of trouble with the largely Evangelical audience who didn't like his critique of the penal substitutionary theory of the Atonement.
And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.
True to the type, as the year 1844 drew near, when the great antitypical day of atonement was to open and the closing work of Christ to begin in the most holy place of the heavenly temple, the trumpet call of the approaching judgment hour was set pealing through all Christendom. Our Day In the Light of Prophecy
Put simply, Christ was an innocent substitute, sacrificed to make atonement for sin.
One simple conclusion would be that this is a desire for atonement taken too far.
There you will stay for timeless healing, for rest, atonement, forgiveness and understanding of self.
The result has been some fascinating studies of such topics as sin, the Atonement, and the Incarnation.
As I headed back down to the chapel in my white kittel, the special garment that is the color of mercy, worn only on the Day of Atonement, I heard a precocious five-year-old avouch nasally, “My Barbie wins” The Barbie Chronicles
Include male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
The Mapuche Indians in Chile still sacrifice a white lamb without blemish as an atonement for sin.
We chat for 45 minutes, touching on atonement, forgiveness and incarceration.
So I'm just asking if you can explain the logical coherence of monergism and universal atonement besides their coexistence in the Book of Concord. The Boar's Head Tavern
As soon as Christians allow for death, suffering, and disease before sin, then the whole foundations of the message of the Cross and the Atonement have been destroyed.
Abelard is chiefly remembered for advocating the so-called ‘moral influence’ theory of the atonement.
Made in crumbling, bomb-scarred East Berlin in 1946, "Murderers" is not only Germany's first postwar production, but a haunting film of disillusionment and atonement. John Farr: Never Again: Ten Great Holocaust Films You May Have Missed
On the tenth day of the seventh month there was a special annual ceremony of confession and atonement for sin.
It is an epic tale of love and war and atonement, which traces one man's long journey home and the woman who waits for him.
It's as much an outburst of pop psychology as of religious atonement.
Nanako would like some atonement though, seems like Ciel's still not going to give any of it though~ Anime Nano!
Each year at Passover time a lamb was sacrificed for atonement for sin; this was required until the Lamb of God came to take away the sins of the world. TEXAS FAITH: Why are millennials dropping out? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
For his atonement he was given a 25 year to life sentence: he was spared the death penalty.
It is striking that the basic teachings of the Church such as Trinity and vicarious atonement find no mention in the Bible.
We are living in the great antitypical day of atonement, for which all heaven has been waiting. Our Day In the Light of Prophecy
The word translated camphire is copher, the same word that signifies atonement or propitiation. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The day may have recalled their atonement. The Tribes Triumphant
Christians believe that to be saved you have to embrace Jesus as the Messiah, you have to believe in vicarious atonement, you have to believe that Jesus died for your sins, you have to believe that Jesus is the Incarnation.
It is but one of several theories of atonement that have popped up in the history of the Church.
He's living in a monastery in a gesture of atonement for human rights abuses committed under his leadership.
Compassionate assistance cannot, of course, be a substitute for the punishment of criminal acts or atonement for wrongdoing.
Some years ago now, a famous Methodist scholar, Vincent Taylor, wrote a trilogy on the atonement.
We now offer, in reparation for these violations of Thy Divine Honor, the satisfaction Thou didst once make to Thy Eternal Father on the cross and which Thou dost continue to renew daily on our altars; we offer it in union with the acts of atonement of Thy Virgin Mother and all the saints and of the pious faithful on earth; and we sincerely promise to make recompense as far as we can, with the help of Thy grace, for all neglect of Thy great love and for the sins we and others have committed in the past. Ss Petri & Pauli
Include male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
Luther knew the depths of sin in his own heart and the need for daily atonement.
I told him that I understood its sense as used in relation to the atonement to mean that Jesus Christ suffered as a substitute for us by bearing the punishment due to sin, which I thought was not stated in the Scriptures, neither the word vicarious nor the idea conveyed by its being found there. Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney,
I write as an Anglican theologian of the Cross, who understands the Atonement, or God for us, as prior in theology to the Incarnation, or God with us.
Exactly *how* that atonement works — “soteriology” — is a surprisingly gray area in Christian theology; the prevailing theory in the Western churches, that of Anselm, came along about 1,000 years later. The Volokh Conspiracy » Mojave Cross Removed
On the tenth day of the seventh month there was a special annual ceremony of confession and atonement for sin.
This is not because we have earned God's favor but simply because we belong to Christ and his sacrifice has made perfect atonement for our sin.
As already stated, Roman Catholics believe that Christ is sacrificed anew in the Mass and that partaking of the elements grants atonement.
In the Levitical Law, the High Priest was required to offer blood sacrifices as an atonement for sins, and confess man's sins to God.
Their pacifist constitution is both atonement for a bloody past and a defining national characteristic.
He was the sacrificial lamb without blemish, making an atonement to end all sacrifices.
The most radical effort of this kind is his revision of the doctrines of atonement and incarnation.
In that sense, the atonement is universal and not particular or limited. Christianity Today
And so for the sin that we have sinned against You by despoiling Your Creation, forgiving God, forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement. Rabbi Lawrence Troster: An Environmental Confession For The High Holidays
They are still awaiting some kind of atonement for the excesses of the late 1990s and beyond.
Prayer, reading, and atonement grew into a way of life that Matt managed to keep hidden.
The result has been some fascinating studies of such topics as sin, the Atonement, and the Incarnation.
Most Christians, although they may be suspicious of vicarious confession, do believe in vicarious atonement: the idea that someone's virtue or suffering can benefit someone else.
In reality, the improbability that Bush will now decide to acknowledge any mistakes whatsoever, much less take full responsibility for the torture he knowingly authorized, means that unless we as a country are resigned to live with the stain of dishonor Sullivan so compellingly describes, it will be left to someone else to demand atonement for this ignoble legacy. Letters to the Editor
The guilt of their sin was conveyed to the little lamb, and then the sinner killed the lamb, and the blood of that lamb was sprinkled on the altar to make atonement for sin.

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