of the early Christian doctrines about Christ to be distracting and that responsibility for the first phase of this deviation must be laid at the feet of Paul. Among other theological aberrations, Chubb found the doctrine of the atonement particularly offensive. The belief “that Christ hath by his sufferings and death made satisfaction to God for the sins of the world, and thereby merited the sinner discharged from condemnation, this doctrine Christ did not preach; and therefore it cannot be any