Atonement ”He hath not dealt with us after our sins” (Psa. 103:10). Why is it that God hath not dealt with us after our sins? Is it not because He hath dealt with another after our sins? Another who took our sins upon Him; of whom it is said, that “God chastened Him in His fierce wrath”? and why did He chasten Him, but for our sins? O gracious God, thou art too just to take revenge twice for the same faults; and therefore, having turned Thy fierce wrath upon Him, Thou wilt not turn it upon us too; but having rewarded Him according to our iniquities, Thou wilt now reward us according to His merits. Richard Baker Concerning modern theories of atonement, Dr Duncan describes them as the admission that the Lord Jesus Christ did something or other, which somehow or other, was in some way or other connected with man’s salvation. This is the substitute of many for the biblical doctrine of substitution. C.H. Spurgeon Christ’s death is not a sufficient ransom for all, not because it is not sufficient for all, but because it is not a ransom for all. Unknown All atonement is suffering, but not all suffering is atonement. Unknown