Comments on: US Obamination Inauguration And Atonement http://urbanreformation.com/us-obamination-inauguration-and-atonement.htm Reaching the Lost in the Urban Core Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:23:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jason http://urbanreformation.com/us-obamination-inauguration-and-atonement.htm/comment-page-1#comment-73 Jason Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:31:17 +0000 http://urbanreformation.com/?p=795#comment-73 Let me ask you this question how can Obama give back to the American people that which was stolen from them in slavery, his mother was white and his father never an American slave? He cannot give back what he never took away. If you then refer to the office of the presidency as giving back to a people what was stolen from them, it will never be sufficient and therefore will never be truly rectified. Let me ask you this question how can Obama give back to the American people that which was stolen from them in slavery, his mother was white and his father never an American slave? He cannot give back what he never took away. If you then refer to the office of the presidency as giving back to a people what was stolen from them, it will never be sufficient and therefore will never be truly rectified.

]]> By: Joe http://urbanreformation.com/us-obamination-inauguration-and-atonement.htm/comment-page-1#comment-72 Joe Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:16:58 +0000 http://urbanreformation.com/?p=795#comment-72 Turns out I have a Word Press account. Who knew? Provocative observation re: atonement. If our countrymen wish to make atonement for past national sins, there is only one Sacrifice by which atonement is possible. That said, restitution is also a part of the whole of salvation (see Jesus and Zacchaeus). The Gospel is the good news that Jesus is Lord, but as Lord, Jesus has some commands we must obey. If you have defrauded your neighbor, the Gospel says you may be forgiven by faith, but the forgiven heart knows what justice is, and so he seeks to restore what he has stolen. Applying this to groups of people, or whole nations, is another matter, "collective responsibility," etc., and I'm still unsettled on that issue, but the principle that an individual must restore what he has stolen stands. But graceless men don't see it that way, of course. They're on the works treadmill, and there is a group of leaders who want to keep us all on that treadmill; they have made it their lives' work to be a condemning Law to the guilty consciences of Americans. There will never be enough "atonement." Well, not for them, anyway. "But we have a better High Priest...." Turns out I have a Word Press account. Who knew?

Provocative observation re: atonement. If our countrymen wish to make atonement for past national sins, there is only one Sacrifice by which atonement is possible.

That said, restitution is also a part of the whole of salvation (see Jesus and Zacchaeus). The Gospel is the good news that Jesus is Lord, but as Lord, Jesus has some commands we must obey. If you have defrauded your neighbor, the Gospel says you may be forgiven by faith, but the forgiven heart knows what justice is, and so he seeks to restore what he has stolen. Applying this to groups of people, or whole nations, is another matter, “collective responsibility,” etc., and I’m still unsettled on that issue, but the principle that an individual must restore what he has stolen stands.

But graceless men don’t see it that way, of course. They’re on the works treadmill, and there is a group of leaders who want to keep us all on that treadmill; they have made it their lives’ work to be a condemning Law to the guilty consciences of Americans. There will never be enough “atonement.”

Well, not for them, anyway. “But we have a better High Priest….”

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