The Atonement of Jesus Christ

In an effort for finite minds to try to comprehend the atonement, many christian authors have suggested various models of salvation. So i'm just going to survey for a couple of minutes some of the main models of salvation paul and other new testament writers use. In places, paul uses what we might call court room terminology to illustrate the process of salvation. All human beings, jew and gentile, have violated divine law, and we stand guilty before god, sentenced to death. The solt is god's gracious gift of jesus christ, who died as an atonement. And when human beings, when we accept this gift by faith, when we place our trust in god