Just came back from Grad Conf, the general feeling that I got from people is “it’s not enough! too short, too many unanswered questions”, I regret for not coming to MYC this year, would learn heaps more for sure..
Redemption and Mercy Seat were the two main topics that we discussed during the seminar.It’s interesting that in Romans 3, “atonement” which is translated to expiation (RSV) and propitiation (ESV) in its original language is actually “mercy seat”, Grimmo argued that it’s better to be translated that way (mercy seat) because it will encourage us to look at OT background of mercy seat.. My thought was, hmm I thought in one of the MYCs it was argued that propitiation is the better term for atonement (and thus pushing the argument for having ESV) and now apparently mercy seat is even better!.. oh well. Lots of big words were used (ie expiation, propiation) i hope the newcomers in pelita will cope this year MYC. Grimmo rounded up the conference by sharing with us his thoughts about the cross, he warned us that he hasn’t fully structured his talk (it’s still work in progress). We learned about 3 views on what actually happened on the cross (one of them is Penal Substitionary Atonement, another big words..) but Grimmo’s talk was more on the Classical view.
The major encouragement for me came from the Men at Work elective led by Ken Simpson. We spent like 1.5 hours hearing from each other on how we live differently as christians at the workplace. It’s encouraging to hear that these CBS grads do (and strugle to) stay as christians and have the hearts to live as christians and share their faith with workmates. We discussed about: 1. Why do we need to tell our workmates about the gospel? 2. What makes it hard for us to do so? 3. What are the things that will be helpful for us to do so?
At the end of the day, I’m glad that I did come to grad conf, learnt few things altho not sure whether there are aby direct applications from the knowledge learned, got encouraged by ppl who are there. Worth coming for sure, but I’d say if you can go to MYC you’ll get the whole cake not just the icing 😛
so what are those 3 views? and whats the classical view?
Do you know why he brought up the 3 views ?
From memory, plz feel free to correct me:
1. Classical view -> the cross is where the fight between God and Satan takes place. (that means resurrection proves who the victor is).
2. Latin theory (effectively Penal Substitionary Atonement)-> cross is where God’s needs are satisfied (i’m not sure abt the word needs here, could be better to use mercy and justice?).
3. Subjective theory (modern) -> cross is where Christ showing his loving example for others to follow.