He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 2:2
The Mishnah states, "To a man who says, 'I will sin and repent, I will sin and repent', Yom Kippur brings no atonement. For sins against God, Yom Kippur brings atonement. For sins against one's fellow man, Yom Kippur brings no atonement until he has become reconciled with the fellow man he wronged. Mishnah Yoma 8:9
According to Maimonides, in order to achieve true repentance the sinner must abandon his sin, remove it from his thoughts, and resolve in his heart never to repeat it, as it is said, “Let the wicked forsake his way and the man of iniquity his thoughts" (Isaiah 55:7). Likewise, he must regret the past, as it is said, "Surely after I turned I repented" (Jeremiah 31:18). He must also call Him who knows all secrets to witness that he will never return to this sin again.
In jewish theology, the atoning sacrifice is only part of the repentance process.
You cannot therefore talk about atonement with repentance, as the sacrifice only works for the person involved in the atoning. Now if the world wishes to seek atonement, Paul is saying they can achieve it.
The problem is taking a deeply religious term and applying it as if it does not come from this whole situation and conditions attached. You are talking about Paul, a pharisee who knew these implications from a child.
This is why your reading in to such passages is just absurd. None of the apostles equally would give it a second thought with their jewish background.
1 John 2:2
The Mishnah states, "To a man who says, 'I will sin and repent, I will sin and repent', Yom Kippur brings no atonement. For sins against God, Yom Kippur brings atonement. For sins against one's fellow man, Yom Kippur brings no atonement until he has become reconciled with the fellow man he wronged. Mishnah Yoma 8:9
According to Maimonides, in order to achieve true repentance the sinner must abandon his sin, remove it from his thoughts, and resolve in his heart never to repeat it, as it is said, “Let the wicked forsake his way and the man of iniquity his thoughts" (Isaiah 55:7). Likewise, he must regret the past, as it is said, "Surely after I turned I repented" (Jeremiah 31:18). He must also call Him who knows all secrets to witness that he will never return to this sin again.
In jewish theology, the atoning sacrifice is only part of the repentance process.
You cannot therefore talk about atonement with repentance, as the sacrifice only works for the person involved in the atoning. Now if the world wishes to seek atonement, Paul is saying they can achieve it.
The problem is taking a deeply religious term and applying it as if it does not come from this whole situation and conditions attached. You are talking about Paul, a pharisee who knew these implications from a child.
This is why your reading in to such passages is just absurd. None of the apostles equally would give it a second thought with their jewish background.
Now, could one of the people who Peter follows into threads harassing and derailing, give some inkling of where he may have come to this strange conclusion? If you participated in the thread where he thinks in his mind that everyone stated the good Samaritan did an evil deed, could you point me to it??