The four basic biblical concepts of The Gravity of Sin, Human Moral Responsibility, True and False Guilt, and The Holiness and Wrath of God are needed to be understood in order for us to understand the heart of the cross. The truth about God is a foreign notion to modern-day man.
The kind of God who appeals to most people today would be the easygoing in His tolerance of our offenses. They see God as an old man with a white beard; almost like a Santa Claus. He would be gentle, kind, accommodating, and would have no violate reactions.
That is not the God of the Bible and sadly to say some churches have lost the vision of the majesty of God. All inadequate doctrines of the atonement are due to inadequate doctrines of God and humanity. If we bring God down to our level and raise ourselves to His, we see no need for a racial salvation, let alone for a racial atonement to secure it.
On the other hand, when we glimpsed the blinding glory of the holiness of God and have been so convicted of our sin by the Holy Spirit that we tremble before God and acknowledge what we are-hell-deserving sinners-then and only then does the necessity of the cross appear so obvious that we are astonished we never saw it before.
The essential background to the cross is a balanced understanding of the gravity of sin and the majesty of God.
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