The Nature of the Atonement: Limited or General? (17)

THE CONFESSIONS ON THE DEFINITE AND PERSONAL ELEMENT OF THE ATONEMENT (continued) We now turn to those articles of the Belgic Confession which speak more directly of the atonement. The first of these is Article 20. Since it is very brief, I will quote the entire article; We believe that God, who is perfectly merciful and just, sent his Son to assume that nature, in which the disobedience was committed, to make satisfaction in the same, and to bear the punishment of sin by his most bitter...