What Is Atonement? Bible meaning..

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The Hebrew word “kaphar” in the Old Testament Bible is translated into English as “atonement” and it means “to cover.” Atonement involved the sacrifice of an innocent animal, and by the shed blood of that animal, God would see the sins of the person(s) who offered the sacrifice, covered.

In Christianity, atonement refers to the needed reconciliation between sinful mankind and the holy God. This reconciliation is possible through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, as expressed in Romans 3:25, Romans 5:11, and Romans 5:19. Atonement is the Bible’s central message.

Atonement in the Bible 

Atonement is an often-used Old Testament term representing a sacrifice for sin. Leviticus 16 describes atonement on many levels by many actions. The whole process was quite detailed but necessary for the people of God to be holy before God, and thus at one with God. They were a set-apart nation, and as such, observed these rituals of atonement.

Atonement for the Priest

“Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.” (Leviticus 16:6)

Here, the bull offering was specifically for the priest (Aaron) and his family as an offering for any sins committed.

Atonement for the People

Next came the goat offering for the sins of the people. “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat. Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins.” (Leviticus 16:15-16).

Atonement in the New Testament 

In the King James Version of the Bible, the word atonement is only used once in the New Testament – in Romans 5:11. However, most other versions have translated the word “atonement” to “reconciliation” because that is the literal interpretation of the word.

“Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” (Romans 5:9-11)

This passage states that believers are justified and reconciled by the atonement of Christ.

The Bible Meaning of Atonement

Atonement is a word that's, it's actually found in, in some translations in Romans chapter three, verse 25, which says that, in some translations that God offered up Jesus as a sacrifice of atonement. Other translations would use the word propitiation, and the idea there is of wrath absorbing substitute. Okay?

Jesus Christ on the cross absorbs the wrath of God. It's a transaction between the father and the son. The father pours out his anger towards sin on Christ, and his wrath is actually satisfied. And because of that, the guilty sinner who trusts in Christ gets to go free. It's related, somewhat related to justification, but it's the way that justification is actually possible.

A sacrifice of atonement, a substitute. And this goes back to old, religious language. Even in Pagan religions they had an idea that the gods were actually angry with them. And so, what they would do, is they would offer up sacrifices to try to appease the gods, so to speak. And so, that language of atonement found in the old system, Old Testament, sacrificial system. And it's basically the offering of a substitute in the place of another. To do away with their sins.