Cross of Christ: God’s Work for Us
Overview
Best-selling author George R. Knight is not only the premier SDA historian but an insightful theologian. In The Cross of Christ, he explains how sin and its atonement are basic to Christian theology, human history, and every field of knowledge. This wide-ranging volume addresses atonement from a Christ-centered, grace-based perspective, explaining in personal terms such perplexities as divine justice and the human response to salvation.
- Explores the ideas of sin and atonement both intellectually and spiritually
- Examines the basics of Christian theology through sin and atonement
- Addresses core concepts such as justice, sin, and the human response to salvation
- My Problem with God
- God’s Problem with Me
- The Bible’s Most Disgusting Teaching
- God in Search of Rebels
- Jesus’ Real Temptation and the “Godforsakenness” of the Cross
- The Universe’s Problem with God and the Reason for the Millenium
- Radical Faith’s Response to the Cross
- A Final Word to the Reader
Top Highlights
“Distrust of God stands at the very foundation of the sin crisis.” (Page 19)
“‘ ‘Reconciliation,’ ’ Karl Barth noted, ‘is the restitution, the resumption of a fellowship which once existed but was then threatened by dissolution.’ The Bible always views reconciliation in terms of God’s covenant relationship to us, a broken relationship that needs restoration.31 Reconciliation has the same meaning today as it did in Bible times—to restore a relationship, to renew a friendship.” (Pages 73–74)
“‘the sacrifice of Christ as an atonement for sin is the great truth around which all other truths cluster. In order to be rightly understood and appreciated, every truth in the Word of God, from Genesis to Revelation, must be studied in the light that streams from the cross of Calvary.… The Son of God uplifted on the cross. This is to be the foundation of every discourse given by our ministers.” (Page 58)
“The Bible teaches that humans have freedom of choice but that that freedom is not absolute in the sense that people are autonomous or totally free. Rather, biblical freedom exists in the sense that individuals can choose Jesus Christ as Lord and live by His principles, or elect Satan as master and make themselves subject to his laws.” (Page 33)
“The reader must keep in mind that the Pharisees had dedicated their entire lives to keeping every jot and tittle of God’s law. They had a saying that Messiah (Christ) would come if Israel kept Torah (the law) perfectly for one day.1 Thus they totally dedicated their lives to bringing about that day.” (Page 16)
- Title: The Cross of Christ: God’s Work for Us
- Author: George R. Knight
- Series: Library of Adventist Theology
- Publisher: Review & Herald
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 158
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Atonement › Seventh-day Adventists; Seventh-day Adventists › Doctrines
- ISBNs: 9780828020671, 0828020671
- Resource ID: LLS:CRSSCHRSTGDWRKS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:01:18Z
Reviews
2 ratings
Roberto
4/21/2015
Al Sosa
6/5/2014
Greetings, After reading the few pages, I must say this author has experienced the very same questions I have had in the past, and sometimes I still deal with some of them. This author, has the backbone to articulate in good words what I believe all people struggle with in reference to God's ways of doing things on a planet that is lost. Yes, it's all about Grace. After reading I was comforted to know that I am not the only one who questions God's standard of justice! The book in the first seven pages kept my attention to the end. I do believe this author has something to say and has shared it in human words that fits the hands that need God's grace in this troubling planet. I will purchase this book just to see his explanation. I think it's a good book just by reading the author's black and white explanations of what he deemed 'unfair' justice. But we know that the Lord is Good and Merciful in all His ways. And the author does bring this out in a classical and God-honoring way. Great book. I will purchase it, and I think you should too. Humble opinion. Blessings. . . Al Sosa