THE LORD JESUS CHRIST—
HIS BLOOD ATONEMENT

We believe that Christ was made like unto us in all things, sin and its consequences only excepted, from which He was clearly void, both in His flesh and in His spirit; that in fulfillment of prophecy He came first to Israel as her Messiah-King, and that, being rejected of that nation, He, according to the eternal counsels of God, gave His life as a ransom for all (John 1:11; Acts 2:23; 1 Timothy 2:6.); that He came to be the Lamb without spot, Who, by the shedding of His incorruptible Blood in the sacrifice of Himself once made, (1 Peter 1:18-19; Acts 20:28) takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29); that in Him is no sin (1 John 3:5); that all the rest of us, although born again in Christ by faith, offend in many things; and that if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us (I John 1:10).

We believe that, in infinite love for the lost, Christ voluntarily accepted His Father's will and became the divinely provided sacrificial Lamb whose shed Blood took away the sin of the world (John 1:29); that He bore the holy judgments against sin which the righteousness of God must impose (Romans 3:2526); that His death was, therefore, substitutionary in the most absolute sense, "the just for the unjust" (1 Peter 3:18; 2 Corinthians 5:14; Hebrews 10:5-14); that by His sacrificial death and the shedding of His Blood He became the Savior of the lost.