Every now and then I like to stoke the fires of the atonement debate. I thought this week I would let the Doctor do so in a brief quote which is as clear as it would be currently controversial:

". . . many of those false theories would have us believe that the sole purpose of the death of our Lord upon the cross was to do something to us. But at the very beginning they are wrong. The object of the burnt offerings and sacrifices was — if I may put it reverently — to do something to God, not to influence man; they were designed to propitiate God. This is a most important point."

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, God the Father, God the Son, p. 318).

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