Justification’s Only Basis: Jesus’ Atonement

Anyone who is truly interested in heaven and in the right to live with God is concerned with the existence of sin. Sin incurs guilt; guilt receives punishment; and the punishment is eternal residence in hell, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. Only with the guilt of sin removed, can one enter into the glorious new heavens and new earth. Somehow and in some way proper and adequate payment must be made to God for the sins...