end that he make complete and effective atonement for our sins on the cross, defeat death by his resurrection, and ascend in our nature to the right hand of God. There is no incarnation without atonement. On the other hand, there can be no atonement without incarnation. It was necessary, according to the just nature of God and on the basis of his eternal decree, that the expiatory and propitiatory death of the Son of God should occur to put away sin once for all. He needed to do this as man, for