Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Jeffrey R. Holland on Jesus as "Propitiation"

  

PROPITIATION

 

In the process of satisfying justice and reconciling man to God in matters of sin and transgression, some payment or ransom had to be offered for human errors. A propitiation is that appeasement or agreed-upon peace offering, a role only Jesus was pure enough and willing enough to play.

 

ROMANS 3:25; 1 JOHN 2:2; 4:10 (Jeffrey R. Holland, Witness for His Names [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2019], 124, italics in original)