Atonement

RECOVERING BIBLICAL AT-ONE-MENT : M.
M. M. NINAN
CHAPTER EIGHT
RECONCILIATION THROUGH INCARNATE WORD
I have given the basic understanding of the various metaphors in existence, actively taught in the
modern evangelical churches, the real teaching of the early churches are downplayed or got distorted.
In what follows I am attempting to reconstruct a comprehensive theology of redemption through Christ
as taught in the scripture and as understood by the Eastern Churches.
It all depends on what the scripture teaches us about God and why and how God created the cosmos,
especially Man.
We need to start from the beginning to understand the creation process.
YHWH Eloheinu YHWH Eḥad (YHWH -our Gods- YHWH is ONE)
1 Corinthians 8:5-6 For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there
are many gods and many lords, yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things
and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
Christianity is a monotheirstic religion which believe that there is only one God. Yet this God of
Christians are not a homogeneous unit, - but a inhomogeneous unity consisting of three persons. How
can three persons be a one person? The easiest way to express this unity is to consider God as a
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