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The Meaning of the Atonement:  Ellen White's Understanding
Taken from an essay by Jonathan Gallagher (England)
 
 
The need for a proper understanding of the atonement is a recurring theme in Ellen White's writings.
While she does made extensive use of traditional terminology in describing why Jesus died, her perception of this vital truth goes far beyond the reiteration of terms such as appeasement, propitiation, expiation etc.
In assessing the true meaning and implication of the reconciliation of man to God brought about by Christ's life, death and resurrection, Ellen White implements the insights of the Great Controversy viewpoint to help understand what questions the cross answered and what problems it solved.
UNDERSTANDING WHY...
 
In order to grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ, it is essential that you should meditate much on the great themes of redemption.
You should ask yourself why Christ had taken humanity upon himself, why he suffered upon the cross, why he bore the sins of men, why he was made sin and righteousness for us.
You should study to know why he ascended to heaven in the nature of man, and what is his work for us today...We take it for granted that we know all about him, and yet we do not comprehend his character or mission.
Signs of the Times, Dec 1, 1890
 
 
LEGAL TRANSACTION?
What is essential in her thought is the MEANING of why Jesus died.
The atonement of Christ is not a mere skillful way to have our sins pardoned; it is a divine remedy for the cure of transgression and the restoration of spiritual health.
It is the Heaven-ordained means by which the righteousness of Christ may be not only upon us but in our hearts and characters.
SDA Bible Commentary, Vol 6, 1074
 
God's forgiveness is not merely a judicial act by which he set us free from condemnation.
It is not only forgiveness for sin, but reclaiming from sin.
It is the outflow of redeeming love that transforms the heart.
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 114.
RECONCILIATION
 
 
In this she is repeating God's desire that the law should not be an external corrective but an inward determinant.
Ellen White well knew, speaking of "the remedial sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who is our atonement--at-one-ment with God".
SDA Bible Commentary, Vol 6, 1077
 
Christ's death shows us God's great love for man.
It is the pledge of our salvation.
To remove the cross from the Christian would be like blotting out the sun.
The Cross brings us near to God, reconciling us to him...Through the cross we learn that our Heavenly Father loves us with an infinite and undying love, and draws us to him with more than a mother's yearning sympathy for a wayward child.
Review and Herald, April 29, 1893
 
Christ was the medium through which He (the Father) could pour out his infinite love upon a fallen world.
"God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself".
God suffered with His Son, in the agony of Gethsemane, the death of Calvary; the heart of Infinite Love paid the price of our redemption.
The Home Missionary, April 1893
 
 
FATHER VS.
SON?
The atonement of Christ was not the cause of God's love, but the result of that love.
Jesus died because God loved the world.
The channel had to be made whereby the love of God should be recognized by man, and flow into the sinner's heart in perfect harmony with truth and justice.
Review and Herald, September 2, 1890
 
The atonement of Christ was not made in order to induce God to love those whom He otherwise hated; and it was not made to produce a love which was not in existence; but it was made as a manifestation of the love that was already in God's heart, an exponent of the divine favour in the sight of the heavenly intelligences, in the sight of the worlds unfallen, and in the sight of a fallen race...We are not to entertain the idea that God loves us because Christ has died for us, but that He so loved us that He gave His only-begotten Son to die for us.
Signs of the Times, May 30, 1893
 
God Himself was crucified with Christ; for Christ was one with the Father.
SDA Bible Commentary, Vol 5, 1108
 
What a love it is that appeals to fallen men!  (John 3:16 quoted)...Well did the disciples understand this love as they saw their Savior enduring shame, reproach, doubt, and betrayal, as they saw his agony in the garden, and his death on Calvary's cross.
This is a love the depth of which no sounding can ever fathom.
As the disciples comprehended it, as their perception took hold of God's divine compassion, they realized that there is a sense in which the sufferings of the Son were the sufferings of the Father.
Youth's Instructor, December 16, 1897
 
 
ANSWERING THE DEVIL
 
Satan had accused God of requiring self-denial of the angels, when he knew nothing of it himself, and when he would not himself make any self-sacrifice for others.
This was the accusation Satan made against God in heaven; and after the evil one was expelled from heaven, he continually charged the Lord with exacting service which he would not render himself.
Christ came to the world to meet these false accusation and to reveal the Father.
Review and Herald, March 9, 1897
 
Christ's self-sacrificing love is revealed upon the cross.
He gave all He had, and then gave Himself, that man might be saved.
Testimonies, Vol 4, 80
 
Pardoning, redeeming love is brought to view in Christ Jesus.
Satan had misrepresented the character of God, and it was necessary that a correct representation should be made to worlds unfallen, to angels and to men...In Christ we behold the character of the Father, and see the pitying tenderness which God exercised for fallen man, giving his only begotten Son as a ransom for the transgressors of the law.
It is in beholding the love of God that repentance is awakened in the sinner's heart, and an earnest desire is created to become reconciled to God.
Review and Herald,  March 9, 1897
 
In the atonement the character of God is revealed.
Great Controversy, Vol 5, 1137
 
 
NO MAGIC SYMBOL
 
The Cross is not meant to be some kind of mystic symbol or magic talisman that can ward off danger, defeating vampires or whatever on the same level as garlic, silver bullets and holly stakes.
the cross of Christ had no more impact than those of the two robbers if it is seen as just an object.
As always, it is the meaning that must be asked for.
Never before was there such a general knowledge of Jesus as when He hung upon the cross.
He was lifted up from the earth, to draw all unto him.
Into the hearts of many who beheld that crucifixion scene, and who heard Christ's words, was the light of truth to shine...they saw the meaning of Christ's mission.
SDA Bible Commentary, Vol 5, 1137
 
It is growth in knowledge of the character of Christ that sanctifies the soul.
To discern and appreciate the wonderful work of the atonement, transforms him who contemplates the plan of salvation.
Review and Herald  August 26, 1890
 
 
SIN KILLS
 
The death of Jesus is the graphic demonstration  to all of what happens to those who refuse to accept his offer of recnciliation.
Not as a threat of punitive retribution, but a warning that the wage that sin pays is death, that without God, life is impossible.
In his agony of separation from his Father, Jesus cries out to all the world "Sin will kill you".
Beholding Jesus upon the cross of Calvary arouses the conscience to the heinous character of sin as nothing else can do.
It was sin that caused the death of God's dear Son, and sin is the transgression of the law.
Review and Herald, November 22, 1892
 
 
WAS GOD THE EXECUTIONER?
The Devil had told Adam and Eve, "You will not surely die".
God on the cross proves the Devil to be a liar--that sin does indeed result in death.
He also answers an even greater question:  Is it God who kills?  No: it was sin itself.
As one is drawn to behold Jesus uplifted on the cross, he discerns the sinfulness of humanity.
He sees that it is sin which scourged and crucified the Lord of Glory.
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 9
 
We are not to regard God as waiting to punish the sinner for his sin.
The sinner brings the punishment upon himself...By choosing to sin, men separate themselves from God, cut themselves off from the channel of blessing, and the sure result is ruin and death.
Selected Messages, Vol 1, 235
 
God does not stand toward the sinner as an executioner of the sentence against transgression; but He leaves the rejecters of His mercy to themselves, to reap that which they have sown.
Great Controversy, 36
 
Christ is ready to set us free from sin, but He does not force the will; and if by persistent transgression the will is wholly bent on evil, and we do not desire to be set free, if we will not accept His grace, what more can He do?
We have destroyed ourselves by our determined rejection  of His love.
Steps to Christ, 34
 
God destroys no man.
Everyone who is destroyed will have destroyed himself.
Christ's Object Lessons, 84
 
The woes of a lost world broke His heart and crushed out His life on Calvary's cross.
Great Controversy, 651
 
Sin is self-annihilation; it carries its own seeds of death which will bring about that bitter harvest of eternal separation from God, the source of life and being.
All this Christ endured to show to us that what God had said was really so, and to persuade us to come to him that we might have life.
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