What is the Atonement of Jesus Christ? Why was it necessary for Jesus Christ to sacrifice His life?
It is impossible to put into words the full meaning of the Atonement, which is the most important and most transcendent event in the history of the world. Through His suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross, the Savior atoned for our sins. This is the good news for all people!
We can’t fully understand how Jesus suffered for our sins. But we know that in the Garden of Gethsemane, the weight of our sins caused Him to feel such agony that He bled from every pore (Doctrine and Covenants 19:16-17).
Later, as He hung upon the cross, Jesus again felt the weight of our sins even as He willingly suffered painful death by one of the most cruel methods ever known. Jesus the Christ, page 462 states, “It seems, that in addition to the fearful suffering incident to crucifixion, the agony of Gethsemane had recurred, intensified beyond human power to endure. In that bitterest hour the dying Christ was alone, alone in most terrible reality.”
The Savior tells us:
“For behold, I... have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer... even as I.” (Doctrine and Covenants 19:16-17)
Jesus Christ did what only He could do in atoning for our sins. To make His Atonement fully effective in our individual lives, we must have faith in Christ, repent of our sins, be baptized and confirmed by one having authority, receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, obey God’s commandments, receive sacred ordinances, and strive to become like Him. As we do these things through His Atonement, we can return to live with Him and our Heavenly Father forever.
The Atonement of Jesus Christ is where The Saviour went to the Garden of Gethsemane and prayed to His Father and took upon Himself the sins of the world. Following this,He was cruxified on the cross,where He willingly gave His life, for everyone of us.
It was necessary for Him to do this and He was the only one who could.
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That is one of my favorite things to discuss. I will try to be brief though. We believe that we are on this earth to grow and progress by making choices. As we exercise our agency, or ability to choose, we all do and will make mistakes. When we break God's laws, we fall subject to justice, and we become unclean.
Without Christ's atonement, we would have no way to be cleansed from our sins, and the demands of justice would be enough to fill us with fear at the thought. Christ's Atonement is the perfect expression of God's mercy. Christ has in effect offered to pay our debt to justice, thus granting us mercy. It is the way that God is both perfectly just and perfectly merciful. The conditions of receiving God's mercy through Christ is by repentance, which process also washes us clean from the stains of sin. Thus Christ's Atonement extends us mercy and cleanses us so we can return to God's presence.
Christ's sacrifice was necessary because he knew that we needed the experiences of our life, with all of our failures and triumphs to grow and progress. Christ knew that we would need mercy, and need a way to be cleansed from our sins, and he loves us so much that he voluntarily accepted that heavy burden for all of God's children.
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The Atonement of Christ is Christ's sacrifice for us. It is a gift He has given to us and wants us to use. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ felt each of our afflictions, our pains, our worries. It is impossible to comprehend all that He felt. He finished His sacrifice on the cross, sealing His suffering with His blood. All of this was done willingly because He loves us.
The Atonement is a gift to us. In Doctrine and Covenants 88:33 it says, "For what doth it profit a man if a gift is bestowed upon him, and he receive not the gift? Behold, he rejoices not in that which is given unto him, neither rejoices in him who is the giver of the gift."
Christ wants us to use His gift. He suffered and died for us that we may return to him. The only way we can return to live with Heavenly Father is through repentance. True repentance can only occur when the Atonement of Christ is used.
However, repentance of sins is not the only use of the Atonement. We can use Christ's gift to forgive. When we have been wronged in any way, Christ's Atonement can heal our hearts. He suffered all our pains. He has felt what we feel. He knows what we're going through. When we allow Him to heal us we come closer to Him and trust in Him. No greater happiness can be found in this life than the happiness we receive through the Atonement. It is impossible to comprehend all that can come because of it. Use it. The gift Christ has given to us will change your life.
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The atonement of Jesus Christ is something that I am still trying to understand at least to the best that I could. I know, though that because of the sacrifice that Jesus Christ did out of pure love for us, all of Heavenly Father's children, us, can have that opportunity to go back to Him with our families. We can make it, with His help.
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ implies His suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane. This is where Jesus took upon himself the Sins, Pains, Afflictions, and every thing that we have felt and ever will feel in this life For everyone who has lived and will live. It than includes the suffering on the cross where he conquered physical death and was resurrected. Jesus Christ suffered for these things, so we didn't have to. His love for us is endless and so is his Atonement. Through him and His act of Love (atonement) we can return to our father and heaven and Jesus Christ again. So simply we need the Atonement, because we make mistakes and through faith we can be cleaned through the blood of Christ
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Atonement, the word breaks down to become one with God. We cannot be in the presence of God if we are spotted with sin. Jesus's Atonement was made that we may become one with God and be in His presence. We cannot clean our own sins. Christ died for our sins, suffering for us that we do not have to, if we accept his terms on this contract. He then was Resurrected that we may all live again in our bodies in God's presence forever. Accepting those terms brings the most wonderful peace into our lives.
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Through the Atonement, our Savior took upon Himself all of our sins and suffered for us that we might not have to suffer the same if we will follow Him. The laws of God are eternal. The consequence for breaking God's laws (sin) must also be eternal. The consequence of sin is spiritual death. Spiritual death means that we become separated from God. Without the Atonement, instead of receiving the joy that God desires all of His children to experience, we would be miserable forever. Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sins by offering Himself as a sacrifice in order to satisfy the demands of justice. It is only through the Atonement of Christ that we can become washed clean from our sins and return to God, our Heavenly Father, and partake of the eternal joy that He desires for all of His children.
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the most important thing that ever has happened and will ever happen. It enables us to receive forgiveness from our sins so that we may return to live with God after we die.
It is comprised of three things: His suffering in the garden of Gethsemane, His death on the cross, and His resurrection from death. By experiencing these three things he can truly "succor [us] according to [our] infirmities..." and "he [took] upon him death that he could loose the bands of death...". (Alma 7:11,12)
Through the atonement we can be forgiven, if with live the gospel of Jesus Christ, which includes faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the holy ghost, and enduring to the end.
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the greatest and most beautiful form of love ever given. It includes Jesus' suffereing in the Garden of Gethsemane, His death on the cross, and resurrection. The Atonement was performed by Jesus out of His perfect love for God's children. Without this sacrifice, there would be no way for anyone to receive forgiveness of their sins, which would make it impossible for us to return to God's presence. The Atonement is a miraculous comfort to anyone who feels alone, struggles with heartache, or who faces disease or illness. Jesus suffered these pains for everyone. He is the only One who perfectly comprehends your pain...for He has already felt it. When the world lets you down, Jesus will remain true to His love for you.
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