Editorial March 10, 1962 ISSUE

Reconciliation

Helen Wood Bauman

Groping mortals have attempted for ages to reconcile their gods to mankind. On altars men have laid gifts and sacrifices, thinking thus to appease wrathful deities and to make propitiation for offenses against them. The ancient custom has lingered on in Christian theology in the doctrine that the self-sacrifice and brutal death of Christ Jesus were for the purpose of satisfying divine justice and effecting a reconciliation of God to man.

This theological doctrine of atonement arises from the false assumption that God is a magnified human being, aware of sinful mortals and needing to be reconciled to them by the sacrifice of His innocent Son.

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