John Adams Quotes

The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.

Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation.

On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God cannot forsake himself, Jesus was God himself. Yet God forsook Jesus, and the latter cried out to know why he was forsaken. Any able divine will explain that of course he knew, and that he was not forsaken. The explanation renders it difficult to believe the dying cry, and the passage becomes one of the mysteries of the holy Christian religion, which, unless a man rightly believe, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."

God without Christ is no God.

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.

The cross alone is our theology.

The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

Those of us who are Christians believe Jesus Christ is the only one who can redeem us.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.

Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.

I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

The god who exacts the last drop of blood from his Son so that his just anger, evoked by sin, may be appeased, is not the God revealed by and in Jesus Christ. And if he is not the God of Jesus, he does not exist.

God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."