Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
It is a just feeling that the law should be vindicated. It is right that sin should never pass unnoticed. It is only proper and worthy of a holy God, that your sin should receive its commensurate punishment. But it is a delusion to imagine that a sinner can atone for sin.
It is a delusion to think that twenty days of repentance, or twenty years of amendment, can cancel that sin of which God has declared the proper penalty to be an everlasting death. It is a delusion to suppose that a sinful repentance, sinful tears, sinful prayers, sinful resolutions, can obliterate the smallest sin. But the greatest delusion of all is to think that you are wiser than God, or mightier than the Son of God. But you do think yourself wiser than God when you prefer your plan to his—when you think that it is more for the honour of the law that the sinner should suffer in his own person rather than in the person of a Divine substitute. ...
For more, see James Hamilton on the folly of self-atonement.
It is a delusion to think that twenty days of repentance, or twenty years of amendment, can cancel that sin of which God has declared the proper penalty to be an everlasting death. It is a delusion to suppose that a sinful repentance, sinful tears, sinful prayers, sinful resolutions, can obliterate the smallest sin. But the greatest delusion of all is to think that you are wiser than God, or mightier than the Son of God. But you do think yourself wiser than God when you prefer your plan to his—when you think that it is more for the honour of the law that the sinner should suffer in his own person rather than in the person of a Divine substitute. ...
For more, see James Hamilton on the folly of self-atonement.
