I’m still flooded with incredible passion and desire to drown myself in the doctrine of the atonement. I posted what I consider to be a really statement of controversy in stating that ‘I do not believe that healing was and is in the atonement’. (See previous posts on the blog for full study).

What has gripped me today as I have been praying and studying is the ‘necessity of the atonement’, In other words, ‘was it necessary for Christ to die? And why?

The Atonement was not necessary or otherwise one would have to conclude that God was/is subject to humans consequences. God did not ‘need’ to save anybody. He refused to spare the angels that sinned and cast them into hell until pending judgement 2 Peter 2:4.

We could then conclude that the atonement is not absolutely necessary until God in His love decided to save us/people and as a ‘consequence’ (key word) of His love then the atonement becomes a “consequent absolute necessity”.

So then Christ had to die to pay the price that God’s justice demanded. I will endeavour to cover this area in the next post.