vicarious sacrifice

It is a law, the law of vicarious sacrifice, which runs through everything, why, we do not know.

One can see no justice in a vicarious sacrifice, nor in the God who could be placated by such means.

Particular redemption by the vicarious sacrifice of Christ.

I also hold their other cowardly doctrine, that of vicarious sacrifice, to be the real, if indirect, cause of Vivisection.

He lived a sinless life and died on a cross as a vicarious sacrifice, shedding His precious blood for the remission of sin for all mankind.

I came to understand that salvation was possible through vicarious sacrifice; and that provision had been made in the first constitution and arrangement of things for such a substitution.

He serves humanity and identifies Himself with the whole world; he is ready to make vicarious sacrifice for it at any moment- by living not by dying for it.

But you understand now what the term 'vicarious sacrifice' means - it means that someone else, or, in the Old Testament,something else - a goat, a bull - took your sin for you.

Horace Bushnell (The Vicarious Sacrifice [1866]): Bushnell rejected penal substitution and, instead, speaks of Christ as 'my sacrifice, who opens all to me'. '

His example was followed by many penitents of both sexes; and, as a vicarious sacrifice was accepted, a sturdy disciplinarian might expiate on his own back the sins of his benefactors.

During the Qajar period, as under the Safavids, however, this rebellious motif was restrained and the emphasis was still on the suffering of Husain, which was seen as a vicarious sacrifice for the sins of the people.

The traditional doctrines of predestination, eternal damnation, and the vicarious sacrifice and satisfaction theories of the Atonement are invalid because they malign God's character and veil the true nature and mission of Jesus Christ.

Hence we denounce such views of God as are contained in the fable of a material hell; and we proclaim to you purer and more rational ideas than are contained in the orthodox notions of atonement and vicarious sacrifice.

Christian Gnostics "believed in the Forgiveness of Sins, but in no vicarious sacrifice for sin ... they accepted Christ in the full realisation of the word; his life, not his death, was the keynote of their doctrine and their practice."

If the human race had earnestly centred upon that instead of losing itself in vain dreams of vicarious sacrifices and imaginary falls, with all the mystical and contentious philosophy which has centred round the subject, how very different the level of human culture and happiness would be to- day!