Theories of the Atonement

Eriksson (1998) says there are several theories about compensation for you depending on how you read a particular scripture: Sosinian theory (1998: 801); a perfect example of devoted followers There is nothing to do with the death sacrifice. The theory of moral influence (1998: 802); This theory thinks that the cross is an example of God's love and is not more than that. Government theory (1998: 806); This theory believes that the death of Christ on the cross is a redemption, which is also a depiction of the seriousness of the believer's sin.

This basic fact is redemption. Atonement explains what happened and the atonement theory explains how it happened. So there is only one truth in the penance but there are many theories that explain how Christ accomplishes the redemption. In this lesson, we will learn three classical amortization theories. The next section will learn another redemption theory, including redemption in the context that Christ will fulfill the covenant with Israel.

One of the earliest theories of atonement is the theory of moral influence, which taught to come to Jesus Christ to die and to positively change humanity. This moral change comes from Jesus' teaching and its example and behavior. The most outstanding name here comes from Augustine of the 4th century AD, and its influence has the greatest influence only on Western Christianity. He confirmed that the theory of moral influence is the main theory of atonement (and ransom theory) too

In the 12th century Canterbury's Anselm proposed a theory of satisfaction of atonement. In this theory, the death of Jesus Christ is understood as death fulfilling the justice of God. Satisfaction as mentioned here means repayment, repairing damages, repaying debts. In this theory, Anselm emphasizes God's justice and claims that sin is a sort of cheating that must be balanced. Anselm's satisfaction theory basically says that Jesus died to repay iniquities of human sins and to satisfy the justice of God.

Classically, Christus Victor's atonement theory is widely regarded as the dominant theory of most historical Christian churches. In this theory, Jesus died to destroy evil forces (such as sin, death, demons etc) to release humanity from bondage. This is related to ransom's point of view, the difference is that no payment is made to the devil and God. In the framework of Christus Victor, the cross was not paid for anyone, but beat the evil and gave freedom to humans.