“Atonement: The Problem is the Problem” Scot McKnight

Atonement: The Problem is the Problem is a great post by McKnight today.

Atonement: The Problem is the Problem is a great post by McKnight today. Here’s my contention with you today: most define the problem in exclusively individualistic terms. To define the problem (sin) in exclusively individualistic terms results in an individualistic atonement theory and an individualistic redemption. And we are tempted over and over to define sin narrowly as individual act, but sin (as we will begin to see tomorrow) is a term for a spectrum of deed and state and consequences. We’ll be helped in our discussion by Mark Biddle’s fine book, Missing the Mark.