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In William Adamson’s classic Nature of Atonement, obscure and misleading terms are explained and their measure of truth and error are laid bare; the purpose of Christ in his redeeming work is expressed clearly. Succinct and simple, Adamson’s text addresses the history of the doctrine, the condition of the incarnation, Christ the sin-bearer, the vicarious nature of the atonement, the atonement as...

in very emphatic language, that “His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree;”1 and the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews says, “Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.”2 The testimony is unhesitating and full. The Bible may be rejected, and the authority of its writers denied, but it cannot be rationally disputed that the Scriptures teach that Christ bore sin, the sin of the world, bore it in His own body, up to and on the tree. 2. What, then, do these representations mean?
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