Bible says:
Without the shedding of blood there is no remission [of sin].
Him who knew no sin He hath made to be sin for us.
The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree.
We "were redeemed ... with the precious blood of Christ."
We are "justified by His blood."
The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
These and many other statements make Christ's death one of atonement by
substitution for our sins.
But evolution cannot tolerate such a doctrine. To the evolutionist this is
a "doctrine of the shambles," a "slaughter house religion," a "gospel of
gore." Christ's death is rather a revelation of the evolutionist's
conception of divine love, and an example of sacrificial service set before
struggling man to help him climb. Let those who believe in the
evolutionist's "historical" method of interpreting Scripture speak for
themselves.
Dr. Gerald Birney Smith, of the University of Chicago, says:
To insist dogmatically, as an _a priori_ principle, that
"without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin,"
is both foolish and futile in an age that has abandoned the
conception of bloody sacrifice and which is loudly demanding
the abolition of capital punishment.
Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch said:
What the death of Jesus now does for us, the death of the
prophets did for him.
Dr. H. C. Vedder says:
Jesus never taught and never authorized anybody to teach in
his name that he suffered in our stead and bore the penalty
of our sins;
and also:
The "one crowning absurdity of theology" is "that the penalty
of an evil deed can be vicariously borne by another while he
goes scot free,"
which he describes in another place as
taking an immunity bath in the "fountain filled with blood."
And Dr. J. H. Coffin, of Earlham College, Earlham, Indiana, says:
The sacrificial life of Jesus is the essential factor in His
atonement. His principles and example are the way of the
individual and society to God.
Such statements make it perfectly evident that those who accept evolution
utterly reject God's provision for salvation through the shed blood of
Christ as an atonement by substitution for our sins.
6. The logic of evolution destroys the doctrine of =regeneration=.
The Bible describes man as dead to God and running away fro
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