Atonement is secure when life is...

Atonement is secure when life is surrendered, released, set free for a new function…. When a sacrifice was offered, we should see it as a killing of the animal in place of the worshipper and the manipulation of the blood as the ritual presentation to God of the evidence that a death has taken place to atone for sin. When the New Testaments refer to the death of Christ as a sacrifice, we should not understand them to be making some far-fetched identification…