References:

(1) “Knowing God” by J. I. Packer.

(2) There is a pagan idea and a biblical idea of propitiation.

(3) The words “propitiate” or “propitiation” in the Bible are NEVER USED of any act whereby man BRINGS God into a favorable attitude or gracious disposition.

(4) Vine’s Expository Dictionary says: “Through the ‘propitiatory’ sacrifice of Christ, he who believes upon Christ is by God’s own act DELIVERED from justly deserved wrath, and comes under the covenant of grace. NEVER is God said to be reconciled . . . . the ENMITY exists on man’s part ALONE, and that it is MAN who needs to be reconciled TO God, and not God to man.

(5) Vine’s Dictionary continues, “The . . . . work of the Cross is therefore the MEANS whereby the BARRIER which sin INTERPOSES between God and man is BROKEN DOWN. By the giving up of His sinless life sacrificially, Christ ANNULS the power of sin to separate between God and the believer.”

This is episode 175.