In the Old Testament the word for atonement may deride from the Hebrew expression “Kapparah.” The etymology of this term comes from the verb kiper, which means to cover and in some cases the word means to pay no attention to. From this idiom kapparah comes the word "expiation;” which in a sense can describe something that wipes out or remove, in this case, guilt or sin. Kapparah is part of a ceremony practiced in Judaism on the eve of Yom Kippur in which typically a cock, hen, or coin is swung three times around the head of the person practicing the ceremony while the other hand is put upon the animal head. Consequently, after the ceremony the animal is put to death. Stating and believing that the price for one’s sin was paid, as a means of …show more content…
The first one is called the Educator/example/moral models. In this observation, the purpose and result of Christ's sacrifice was to persuade mankind toward moral improvement. This theory, perhaps, denies that Christ died to please any standard of divine justice, nevertheless, it tends to show and educate instead that His death was planned to greatly highlight to mankind God's love, pretending that God’s actions would softened their hearts and would lead them to repentance. Several Scriptures have been presented to argued this perspective, such as, Colossians 1:21-23, which says, “…you who were once estranged and hostile in mind doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him provided that you continue in the faith stable and steadfast..." In other words what happened on the cross morally influences us for the better. Perhaps, another portion of Scripture is found in 1 Pet. 2:21 "for to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his