“B.A.S.F. Clauses on the Atonement”

THE TRUTH TO BE RECEIVED

4. That the first man was Adam, whom God created out of the dust of the ground as a living soul, or natural body of life, “very good” in kind and condition, and placed him under a law through which the continuance of life was contingent on obedience.  Gen 2:7; 18:27; Job 4:19; 33:6; I Cor 15:46-49; Gen 2:17. 

5. That Adam broke this law, and was adjudged unworthy of immortality, and sentenced to return to the ground from whence he was taken - a sentence which defiled and became a physical law of his being, and was transmitted to all his posterity.  Gen 3:15-19, 22, 23; II Cor 1:9; Rom 7:24; II Cor 5:2-4; Rom 7:18-23; Gal 5:16-17; Rom 6:12; 7:21; John 3:6; Rom 5:12; I Cor 15:22; Psa 51:5; Job 14:4. 

6. That God, in his kindness, conceived a plan of restoration which, without setting aside His just and necessary law of sin and death, should ultimately rescue the race from destruction, and people the earth with sinless immortals.  Rev 21:4; John 3:16; II Tim 1:10; I John 2:25; II Tim 1:1; Titus 1:2; Rom 3:26; John 1:29. 

7. That He inaugurated this plan by making promises to Adam, Abraham and David, and afterwards elabourated it in greater detail through the prophets.  Gen 3:15; 21:18; Psa 89:34-37; 33:5; Hos 13:14; Isa 25:7-9; 51:1-8; Jer 23:5. 

8. That these promises had reference to Jesus Christ, who was to be raised up in the condemned line of Abraham and David, and who, through wearing their condemned nature, was to obtain a title to resurrection by perfect obedience, and, by dying, abrogate the law of condemnation for himself, and all who should believe and obey him.  I Cor 15:45; Heb 2:14-16; Rom 1:3; Heb 5:8-9; 1:9; Rom 5:19-21; Gal 4:4-5; Rom 8:3-4; Heb 2:15; 9:26; Gal 1:4; Heb 7:27; 5:3-7; 2:17; Rom 6:10; 6:9; Acts 13:34-37; Rev 1:18; John 5:21-22, 26-27; 14:3; Rev 2:7; 3:21; Mat 25:21; Heb 5:9; Mark 16:16; Acts 13:38-39; Rom 3:22; Psa 2:6-9; Dan 7:13-14; Rev 11:15; Jer 23:5; Zech 14:9; Eph 1:9-10. 

9. That it was this mission that necessitated the miraculous begettal of Christ of a human mother, enabling him to bear our condemnation, and, at the same time, to be a sinless bearer thereof, and, therefore, one who could rise after suffering the death required by the righteousness of God.  Mat 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-35; Gal 4:4; Isa 7:14; Rom 1:3-4; 8:3; II Cor 5:21; Heb 2:14-17; 4:15. 

10. That being so begotten of God, and inhabited and used by God through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, Jesus was Emmanuel, God with us, God manifest in the flesh - yet was, during his natural life, of like nature with mortal man, being made of a woman, of the house and lineage of David, and therefore a sufferer, in the days of his flesh, from all the effects that came by Adam’s transgression, including the death that passed upon all man, which he shared by partaking of their physical nature.  Mat 1:23; I Tim 3:16; Heb 2:14; Gal 4:4; Heb 2:17.

11. That the message he delivered from God to his kinsmen the Jews, was a call to repentance from every evil work, the assertion of his divine sonship and Jewish kingship; and the proclamation of the glad tidings that God would restore their kingdom through him, and accomplish all things written in the prophets.  Mark 1:15; Mat 4:17; 5:20-48; John 10:36; 9:35; 11:27; 19:21; 1:49; Mat 27:11-42; John 10:24-25; Mat 19:28; 21:42-43; 23:38-39; 25:14 to the end; Luke 4:43; 13:27-30; 19:11-27; 22:28-30; Mat 5:17; Luke 24:44.

12. That for delivering this message, he was put to death by the Jews and Rom who were, however, but instruments in the hands of God, for the doing of that which He had determined before to be done, - viz., the condemnation of sin in the flesh, through the offering of the body of Jesus once for all, as a propitiation to declare the righteousness of God, as a basis for the remission of sins. All who approach God through this crucified, but risen, representative of Adam’s disobedient race, are forgiven. Therefore, by a figure, his blood cleanseth from sin.  Luke 19:47; 20:1-16; John 11:45-53; Acts 10:38-39; 13:26-29; 4:27-28; Rom 8:3; Heb 10:10; Acts 13:38; I John 1:7; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; I Pet 3:18; 2:24; Heb 9:14; 7:27; 9:26-28; Gal 1:4; Rom 3:25; 15:8; Gal 3:21-22; 2:21; 4:4-5; Heb 9:15; Luke 22:20; 24:26; 24:46-47; Mat 26:28.

DOCTRNES TO BE REJECTED

4. That Christ was born with a “free life.”

5. That Christ’s nature was immaculate.

27. That there is no sin in the flesh.