an absolute pardon in the exercise of pure love by His Son, only slain in proclaiming this gracious message. They retain the name and neutralize the meaning, or make it a mere metaphor, excluding the idea of an equivalent or satisfaction to the divine law for our deliverance. They hold that, without any reparation to the law of God, men enter into union with Christ, who descended into humanity and lived a sinless human life, which is reproduced in us, His followers, by means of fellowship with Him.