THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE RANSOM
Is an understanding of the philosophy of the ransom essential to justification? Answer Justification is the name for that standing in the sight of God in which He can accept us and deal with us no longer as sinners but as perfect human sons. This relationship or standing has been accounted to the friends of God ever since the day of Abraham, surely, and evidently to some others previously. Neither Abraham nor David nor Samuel nor the prophets understood the…