Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God (1 Jn. 4:8-10), the taking of human form by the Son (Heb. 2:17), the meaning of the Cross (Rom. 3:21-26), Christ's heavenly intercession (1 Jn. 2:1-2), the way of salvation- all are to be explained in terms of it, as the passages quoted show, and any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards."
J.I. Packer, Knowing God, p. 181
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