"The Crucifixion of Christ," The Baptist Watchman vol.5 no.23 (1873)
OUR SINS WERE THE CAUSE of all his cruel sufferings and
tragical death. “He died that we might live.” So ran the counsel
of God on the subject. “He was delivered for our offences.”
The Jews in their enmity against Him became the instruments
through and by which the satisfactory atonement was made for
us; otherwise we must have perished forever. Some, however,
tells us that this doctrine conveys an erroneous impression; that
while it is true the Jews were instrumental in the death of
Christ, yet they were not necessarily so; that if he would have
been left in the garden he would have died there. This is
Arminianism; and the objector intends by it to show that the
doctrine of purpose and design on the part of Deity is fallen.
Our position is, that it was not in the arrangement of Deity for
him to die in any other way, or by any other instrumentalities,
except as were used on the occasion. This was the only way the
word of divine truth could successfully find its accomplishment. |
