Tag Archives: 1 Peter 2:23-24

77 Questions about the Atonement (Q&A #73)

73.     “Is healing in the Atonement?”

And how!  Inasmuch as God atoned for the miserable death and shed blood of Jesus by raising him from the grave through the wholesome power and glory of the Spirit exalting him to Lordship over all nations, consequently every spiritual favor of the Spirit springs from that atonement in rich profusion, including expulsion of demons, miraculous healing of human ills, and other startling precursors of the future thorough housecleaning of the cosmos.  Christ Jesus suffered from the illnesses of others and was burdened with their pains.  He was wounded by their transgressions and crushed under their depravities.  He learned obedience through this pedagogic discipline and experienced our human plight in depth.  So in exchange for his willingness to share our misery, itself caused by our own aggregate depravity, and hence being perpetually afflicted by human vice and viciousness at every turn his whole life long, without complaint or vengefulness, he was bequeathed by God the highest estate in the created universe, complete with fresh resources of creation-renewing power.  It is in this manner that by his welts there can be healing for us.  Only in this way are we equipped and deputized for our assigned task to start renewing the face of the earth as a testimony to what Christ has by his heroic obedience rendered…inevitable!

Leave a comment

Filed under conciliation with God, Isaiah 52:13-53:12, justification, regeneration, restorative justice, sanctification, The Atonement