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or Aten In ancient Egyptian religion, a sun god, depicted as the solar disk emitting rays terminating in human hands. The pharaoh Akhenaton (r. 1353-36 BC) declared Aton to be the only god, and in opposition to the Amon-Re priesthood of Thebes, built the city of Akhetaton as the center for Aton's worship, but Aton's religion is poorly understood. After Akhenaton's death, the old religion was restored
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To clear (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent
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To make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime one has committed
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The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus
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to make amends for
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amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury
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make amends for; "expiate one's sins"
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{v} to expiate by sacrifices, make satisfaction, or be equivalent
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{n} satisfaction, expiation, reconciliation
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To make satisfaction for; to expiate
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If you atone for something that you have done, you do something to show that you are sorry you did it. He felt he had atoned for what he had done to his son = repent. to do something to show that you are sorry for having done something wrong atone for (at one )
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{f} redress, do penance, appease, make amends
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To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
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turn away from sin or do penitence
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To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease
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To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime
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To agree; to be in accordance; to accord
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To unite in making
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(Gr exilasmos) The redemptive activity of Christ in reconciling man to God The Orthodox believe that Christ, through His death upon the cross, atoned or paid for human sins
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satisfaction given for wrongdoing, injury, etc; in Christianity the removal of guilt through the substitutionary death of Jesus
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To reconcile or set at one; the recovering of at-one-ment, not the state of at-one-ment
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Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; with for
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compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store
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compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store"
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The work of reconciliation, which Jesus did in bringing humanity back to God through his death on the cross The man, Christ Jesus, paid the penalty for human sin, thus making the reconciliation possible
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Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ
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Satisfaction given for wrongdoing Act of reconciliation The effect of Jesus' death in redeeming and reconciling us to God
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If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry. He's living in a monastery in a gesture of atonement for human rights abuses committed under his leadership = repentance. something you do to show that you are sorry for having done something wrong atonement for. Religious concept in which obstacles to reconciliation with God are removed, usually through sacrifice. Most religions have rituals of purification and expiation by which the relation of the individual to the divine is strengthened. In Christianity, atonement is achieved through the death and resurrection of Jesus. In Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and some Protestant churches, penance is a sacrament that allows for personal atonement (see confession). In Judaism the annual Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, is the culmination of 10 days centered on repentance
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An English term originally coined in 1526 by William Tyndale to translate the Latin term reconciliatio, which has since come to have the developed meaning of "the work of Christ" or "the benefits of Christ gained for believers by his death and resurrection"
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In Judaism, atonement (Hebrew: kaparah) or reconciliation between God and humanity, is achieved by the process of teshuva(h) - repentance, seeking forgiveness and making amends with our fellow human beings
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Satisfaction for wrongdoing or debt In Christianity, the saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross (specifically His death) by which sinful human beings are restored to fellowship with their holy and just God
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A term originally coined by William Tyndale to translate the Latin term reconciliatio, which has since come to have the developed meaning of "the work of Christ" or "the benefits of Christ gained for believers by his death and resurrection " See pp 341-60
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Making amends for your sins or wrong deeds Trying to put things right
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- kapparah It refers to reconciliation with God through the appeasement of God's wrath against sin
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(v atone) To make right with God by satisfying the penalty for breaking relationship; in the Old Testament this was done through offering sacrifices to God See Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) See Chapter 4
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This particular doctrine denotes the very heart of the gospel It is God’s provision and payment for the sins of His people through the sacrificial substitutionary death of Christ The moving cause of the atonement is found in the good pleasure of God to save sinners (Isa 53: 10, Luke 2: 14, Col 1: 19) In the atoning work of Christ we see the Justice of God clearly revealed while the sinner is justified The necessity of the atonement is manifested by God sending His only unique son to be bruised and shed His precious blood for the sins of the elect (Rom 3: 25,26) The advocates of a universal atonement assert that Christ merely made salvation possible for all men, and that their actual redemption is dependent on their own free choice Those of the Reformed persuasion maintain that Christ actually saves those whom He laid down His life for Not one of them for whom Christ paid the price for will lose their salvation All are eternally secure (John 10: 27-29)
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the Holy Spirit's plan of correction to undo the ego and heal the belief in separation; came into being after the separation, and will be completed when every separated Son has fulfilled his part in the Atonement by total forgiveness; its principle is that the separation never occurred
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In A Course in Miracles, atonement is recognizing the fact that God and mankind have never been separated
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Reconciliation with God through the expiation of sin Hebrew Kapparah See also Yom Kippur
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To atone means to make amends, to repair a wrong done Biblically, it means to remove sin The Old Testament atonements offered by the high priest were temporary and a foreshadow of the real and final atonement made by Jesus Jesus atoned for the sins of the world (1 John 2: 2) This atonement is received by faith (Rom 5: 1; Eph 2: 8) Man is a sinner (Rom 5: 8) and cannot atone for himself Therefore, it was the love of the Father that sent Jesus (1 John 4: 10) to die in our place (1 Pet 3: 18) for our sins (1 Pet 2: 24) Because of the atonement, our fellowship with God is restored (Rom 5: 10) (See Reconciliation )
atonement
AMENDS; THE RECONCILIATION OF GOD AND MAN
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The word Atonement was coined by English Reformation leader William Tyndale (1494-1536) It was how he translationed the latin word [reconciliatio], which means to bring together again, conciliate, or restore to union It's where we get the word reconcile In Theological terms it has more commonly come to mean, 'the work of Christ on the cross' in making amends for the enmity and the crimes comitted by man, against the laws of God It is this reparation which allows man, by Christ's death and resurrection, to eternally benefit [back]
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Satisfaction or reparation of a wrong or injury; to make up for errors or deficiencies
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A repair done for the sake of a damaged relationship
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{i} reparation, amends, penance, redress
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the process by which a right relationship with God is restored Christians have no agreement as to how this process occurs Three dominant beliefs about atonement are interwoven in Christian theology: the classical view, the satisfaction theory, and the moral influence theory No one of these views is complete in and of itself In the classical or sacrificial view, God initiates our reconciliation through the sacrifice and death of Jesus In the satisfaction theory, God's honor is offended by our sinning Only through a perfect sacrifice of a divine human being, such as Jesus, can God's offended honor be restored In the moral influence theory, God frees us from our fear of God through God's sacrificial love and death shown to us through Jesus the Christ
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Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord
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in the Christian tradition, the "at-one-ment," or the restoration of relationship with God, through Jesus Christ
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The root meaning in English, "reparation," leads to the secondary meaning of reconciliation, or "at-one-ment," the bringing together into harmony of those who have been separated, enemies
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The means of making us at one with God God accepts Jesus' sacrifice as the complete satisfaction for the just requirements and judgment of His law upon our sin The act of atonement was the substitution of Jesus' death for ours - God paying the penalty for our sin so that we may go free The triumph of love without compromising justice (Romans 3: 21-26)
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the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
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To atone is to make up for some wrong which has been done The Atonement is the redeeming work of Christ through His suffering and death on a cross What makes the redeeming work of Christ so special is that He did the atoning for our sins
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the Atonement: The death of Jesus seen as reconciling God and humankind
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