The Cross of Jesus Christ an Antidote to Spiritual Deception: What is the Gospel?, #9

By Raymond Creed

After using these notes readers should be able to: -
1) List the four major views of the Atonement.
2) Define the four major views of the Atonement.
3) Establish the Scriptural basis for those views.
4) Perceive how each of these views can both prevent and cure any major spiritual deception.
5) Appreciate more fully the work Jesus accomplished on the cross.
6) Understand enough of the Gospel to receive salvation.
7) Fully commit their lives to Jesus, should they wish to do so.
8) Enjoy liberation from any form of spiritual deception should they genuinely wish for this.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raymond Creed
• Release date: Jan 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393733768

Raymond Creed

Published Under the Pen Name of Raymond Creed On Lulu Publications Facing the Unthinkable (2010) (What the Jewish People May Feel When They Find their True Messiah) The 52 Attributes of God (2011) (A Bible-Based Analysis of the Attributes of God – With Particular Reference to the Relationship between Divine Holiness and Divine Love) The Leeds Liturgy (2010) (A Prayer Book enabling Christians to ‘Worship God in Spirit and in Truth’) The Phantom Conflict (2010) (Bible teaching on the relationship between divine holiness and divine love in connection with Christian idolatry and the need for a balanced Christian life) Reaching Across the Chasm (2019) (An Unlikely Dialogue between a Male Religious Conservative and a Christian Lesbian Writer) Ancient Passions (2020) (Exploring the Spiritual Crisis of our Time) How I Became  Christian Regarding becoming Christian I was: - 1. Led by the Revd Richard Bolt to ask Jesus Christ into my life at a boys’ camp in Croyde North Devon, during August 1968 (and in late August 1969 and 1970 because I lacked assurance) 2. Finally re-born through receiving a direct vision of Christ at a Student Christian Union meeting (held in a student flat in Newcastle upon Tyne) on Saturday, 18th October 1975 (around 8.00p.m) 3. Baptized in the Holy Spirit at a prayer meeting on Thursday, 27th November 1975 (began to pray with tongues the following Monday evening) 4. Given a full immersion (Trinitarian) water baptism on the evening of Sunday, 5th September 1976.

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The Cross of Jesus Christ an Antidote to Spiritual Deception

What is the Gospel?, Volume 9

Raymond Creed

Published by Raymond Creed, 2021.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST AN ANTIDOTE TO SPIRITUAL DECEPTION

First edition. January 5, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 Raymond Creed.

ISBN: 978-1393733768

Written by Raymond Creed.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

GOSPEL PREACHING NOTES 9 | (THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST: AN ANTIDOTE TO SPIRITUAL DECEPTION) | RAYMOND CREED

GOSPEL PREACHING NOTES 9

(THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST: AN ANTIDOTE TO SPIRITUAL DECEPTION)

RAYMOND CREED

©The moral right of the author has been exerted, Electronic Edition June 2016

Definitions

Section 1: Introduction

Section 2: Views of the Atonement

Section 3: General Comments

Section 4: The First Antidote to Spiritual Deception

Section 5:  The Second Antidote to Spiritual Deception

Section 6:  The Third Antidote to Spiritual Deception

Section 7: The Fourth Antidote to Spiritual Deception

Section 8: A Challenge to Commitment

Section 9: Concluding Comments

Before You Go

Definitions

RIGHTEOUSNESS: A ‘right relationship’ with God, which occurs through having one’s sins forgiven. In passing it’s worth noting that a two-fold barrier between God and Humanity exists in the sense that: -

1) Divine holiness leads to God’s total repugnance to sin and to the withdrawal of His mercy.

2) The presence of sin in