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BEREAN STUDIES ON THE ATONEMENT

THE TEXT-BOOK USED FOR THIS COURSE IS SCRIPTURE STUDIES, SERIES (V)

Man for Whom Atonement Was Made

APRIL 3

(1) What is the signification of the word ransom in the English and in the Greek? Cite the Scripture. P. 427, last par.

(2) What light does the meaning of the word ransom throw upon the work of Atonement? P. 428.

(3) Does the word redeem have a somewhat similar signification to the word ransom? And have the translators of the English Bible helped or hindered the student, and how? P. 429-431.

(4) What about the word lutroo? Explain its significance and use. P. 431, 432.

(5) Explain the word lutrosis, also rendered redemption, and cite Scriptures. P. 432, 433.

(6) Explain the meaning of the Greek word poieolutrosin and its uses in the Scriptures. P. 433, par. 3,4.

(7) About the word apolutrosis: explain it and refer to its use and its meaning. P. 434-437.

APRIL 10

(8) Cite the uses of the words redeem, redeemer, redeemed, redemption in the Old Testament. Examine these and show their proper application. P. 438.

(9) Is the commercial idea involved in the words describing man’s redemption and its cost? P. 439, par. 2.

(10) How does this commercial thought harmonize with the substitute thought and with the signification of the word ransom? P. 439, par. 1.

(11) What object is served by the teaching of this Scripture that the “world is bought”?—that the penalty of man’s sin was death, under the Divine arrangement? P. 439, par. 2.

(12) So far as the redeemed are concerned, what does it matter by what process God satisfied the demands of his own Justice, if to them it comes as a gift? What purpose, then, is served in the Divine explanation as to how we were redeemed and how the Divine Justice was satisfied before we could be delivered from the power of sin and death—curse or sentence of the Divine Law? P. 439, par. 3.

(13) Mention some of the Scriptures which show that our Redeemer gave all that he had; that he kept nothing back, but made a full sacrifice of his every talent, power, position and right, that thereby he might become man’s Redeemer and eventually have a right to be the Mediator of the New Covenant between God and mankind in general? P. 440.

(14) Cite some Scripture showing what ransom was paid for man. P. 441, par. 1.

(15) Cite some Scriptures showing what was the penalty for sin and what the price paid in offset or cancellation of that sin. P. 441.

(16) Did the payment of the ransom price effect the forgiveness, and release all mankind or any number of them from the death sentence? P. 442, par. 1.

(17) When our Lord ascended on high, was he possessed of a sufficiency of merit which, if applied, would have effected the cancellation of the sins of the whole world? And did he so apply it? And if not, what did he do with it? P. 442, par. 1.

(18) Who are included in the term us? For whom did the Lord make application of his merit when he ascended on high and what proof was furnished to the Church showing that the Father accepted the merit thus applied?

(19) What can we say respecting the meaning of the words hilasmos and hilasterion? What Scriptures refer to these and what do they teach?

APRIL 17

(20) When we read that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins, did it mean any blood? If not, what blood? And did it mean that shedding of the blood remitted the sins or that the blood must be shed and then be used as a basis for sin remission? P. 442, last par.

(21) Explain how and why the shame and ignominy of the cross, etc., were necessary to our Lord, whereas the penalty of sin as originally stated to father Adam was merely death without stipulations respecting shame and ignominy. P. 443.

(22) What Scriptures particularly show that mankind is in a wrong condition, alienated from his Creator, and nothing but the sacrifice of Christ could be effective for his reconciliation, either by justification by faith now or actual justification by and by during the Millennium? P. 444, 445.

(23) Cite some Scriptures which teach that our Lord’s sacrifice was not for the Church alone, but also for the sins of the whole world. P. 446.

(24) What Scriptures directly state that mankind were bought with a price—the blood of Christ? P. 446, last par.

(25) By whom was the purchase made? P. 447.

(26) Of whom was the purchase made? P. 447-449.

(27) Why, for what purpose, was the purchase made? P. 450.

(28) What part did love and wisdom have with justice in this arrangement for human sin? P. 451.

APRIL 24

(29) May we then say that although man be released from sin and death only by the satisfaction of Justice, nevertheless the triumph of Justice was preeminently a victory of Divine Love through Justice? If so, show it. P. 452, par. 1,2.

(30) Who sold the race into sin and what compensation did he receive? P. 452, par. 3.

(31) Is this matter of the purchase of our race by the Lord Jesus Christ a mere figure or theory, or is it bona fide, actual, and does it carry with it actualities of progression and control? P. 452, par. 4.

(32) Is it by virtue of this purchase that the Redeemer has the right to be the restorer of the race, and by giving to it the purchased life, does he become its Life-Giver or Father, and is this term Father Scripturally applied to him? Explain the process of the philosophy. P. 453, par. 1.

(33) Our Lord laid down the price of the race when he died. Did he take it back again when he arose from the dead on the third day? If not, why not? Explain the entire transaction and show positively that the ransom for sin remained and will always remain and that thus our forgiveness and reconciliation are upon a firm basis. P. 453, last par.; P. 454, par. 1.

(34) What would have been implied had our Lord risen from the dead a human being—thus taking back the ransom price? P. 454, par. 2.

(35) Could the man Jesus possibly be referred to as the new Father of the race—the Second Adam? Why not? Explain the matter fully. P. 454, par. 3,4.

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— March 1, 1910 —