Thoughts

Harmony of believers. Reformation must happen within cultures for the atonement to have any meaning. Without it, you have tyrannical government and leaders. People can be easily manipulated by their guilt. They have guilt because they have no atonement. A people who have no forgiveness is controlled by their guilt. You see this displayed by Stalin. It is the war of all against all. There are legal ramifications for the atonement. When the law is violated, the law must be repaired. That is what the atonement teaches. Man broke the law and it must be made up or fixed somehow. We cannot do this repair. Christ is our substitution and restitution. We must have a high view of Christ's repair. Our theology gets into everything and creates our every thought and action and reaction. The Church becomes the thermometer of the culture to determine how well it is doing. We cannot substitute harmony for theology or true atonement.