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What Do Expiation and Propitiation Mean? By Dr. R.C. Sproul

When we talk about the vicarious aspect of the atonement, two rather technical words come up again and again: expiation and propitiation.

I love Easter. I love the celebratory music we sing at church. I love the passages of Scripture we read during worship.

“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” —Matthew 27:46 GOOD FRIDAY is the day when believers specifically remember

“This is the will of the Father who sent Me that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but

“God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself” (2 Corinthians 5:19). Paul says in our text that God was performing a

“Grace works to free you from your eternity amnesia so that you will be willing and able to live with the purifying

“What do we know ourselves of spiritual conversation with other Christians? Perhaps we read our Bibles, and pray in private, and use

“I wish I could say that sin always appears horribly ugly and destructive to me, but it doesn’t. I wish I could

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me;

“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” —1 Thessalonians 5:18 The Bible