Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: September 22, 1921
Such an expedient, in the moral government of God, the apostles asserted the death of Christ to be. They preached that all men were condemned already - that God had thoughts of peace and not of evil towards all men - that these thoughts were to be exercised in such a manner, as not to destroy the law, and that the medium or expedient for doing this was the sacrifice of his only Son, as an atonement or satisfaction to public justice for the sins of men.
The sufferings of the Son of God were substituted in the room of the execution of the penalty threatened to the offender. The atonement in the death of Christ is not the literal enduring of the identical penalty due to the sinner; but it is a provision, or an expedient, introduced instead of the literal cause of the suffering, which will answer the same purposes, in the Divine administrations, as the literal execution of the penalty on the offender himself would accomplish.
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