Atonement Essay Samples and Topic Ideas

Atonement. Both religions proclaim the deity as being most merciful and compassionate, therefore a forgiver of sins. The Bible's Old Testament provides context for repentance as a requisite to be forgiven one's sins by God. So, for example, “the Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,” declares the Lord. (Isaiah 59:20). Likewise, Jeremiah 18:8 states “and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.” Repentance thus appears essential for salvation, since all men are sinful by their very nature (original/hereditary sin) and risk eternal death away from God if not forgiven. Also in the Old...