Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 133
Chapter Ten—Redemption or Atonement 133 not forgive the debt or respite until you are able to repay him. But if sin is taken as a crime, i. e. , breaking the commandments of God wilfully, no law of justice would punish anyone but the culprit, or if it is defined as a spiritual disease, it cannot be cured if the remedy is applied to any other, save the sinner. Moreover, Jesus did not offer himself, but supplicated and prayed to God with tears that He might save him from death. And in most appealing words he then said: ‘O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. ’ 1 Then he made a heart-rending cry while he was on the cross: ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’ 2 And about Judas, who disclosed to the Jews his hiding place, he said: ‘Woe unto that man. . . it had been good for that man if he had not been born. ’ 3 Can anyone honestly say that he offered himself willingly for the guilty ones? The consequence of this fabricated doctrine is that Christian Europe is becoming the source of Atheism and even the sense of sin has died in it. Rev. H. R. Gough writes: Large numbers of our people have no sense of sin at all; they may not be actually immoral themselves, but they have no morals. Conscience has become so dulled by continual disobedience to its promptings that there is no longer a sense of right or wrong. We seem to be no longer 1. Matt. 26:42 2. Matt. 27:46 3. Matt. 26:24