Propitiation is term that describes that God is appeased. Jesus Christ is our propitiation for our sins. There are two wrong ways of looking at this. The first is that the legalist or moralist does not think that God has been appeased while the relativist feels that there is no need for propitiation. The relativist says that "God loves everyone". The question we need to ask them is "What did it cost your God to love you?"
Christians love to talk about Grace but is there any understanding of grace if there is no judgment for sin? Why should we talk about grace unless we believe in the fact that God will judge the world.
The legalist on the other hand does not believe that Christ's death on the cross was sufficient to propitiate God's wrath against sin and therefore we must do something to help appease Him. Both of these views rob the Gospel of its truth.
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