Pananastasism (pronounced pan-ana-stas-ism) is a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ’s atonement arguing that His atoning work functions on two levels, having two aspects\u2014both a universal aspect and a particular aspect, the combined result is a particular salvation for believers (the elect) only. These two aspects relate to the two primary problems that mankind faces due to sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two primary problems are faced by mankind due to sin: a legal penalty and a natural consequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sin results in a legal penalty because of the legal debt, the breaking of God\u2019s commands (His law)\u2014physical death<\/em><\/strong>. This is God’s own declared penalty, and had it not been dealt with by God, then regardless of faith, physical death would have been the end result of all people forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adam\u2019s sin corporately brought death upon all people (Gen 2:17, 3:6, 3:22-24; Rom 5:12-14, 1 Cor 15:21-22, Eph 2:1; Heb 9:27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each sin a person commits also deserves death (Rom 6:16, 23, 7:13; Jam 1:15).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n The natural consequence of sinning is becoming unrighteous<\/em><\/strong>. We are therefore no longer righteous like God designed us to be (Gen 1:26-27). This consequence manifests in two issues that lead to a final result of punishment for all those who reject God\u2019s solution to this problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our physical and spiritual nature (our ontology) became unrighteous\u2014unclean, sinful, i.e. not morally like God as God intended. Unrighteousness is the natural consequence of not doing right 100% of the time. This nature passed from Adam to all his offspring (Gen 5:1-3; Ps 51:5, 58:3; Rom 5:13, 7:14, 25; Titus 1:15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our relation to God became broken, a rift between what God designed and desires us to be (righteous like Him) and what we are (unrighteous and sinful). This is a natural consequence of how a righteous God relates to an unrighteous human\u2014we became the enemies of God (Jn 15:18; Rom 5:10; Col 1:21) and God\u2019s wrath is upon us (Jn 3:36; Rom 1:18, Eph 2:3, 5:6; Col 3:6), though that wrath is not yet fully expressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From those two issues of natural consequence, a second judgment occurs\u2014can we stand before God as designed, that is, to be as righteous as God? If not, then we also have failed to enter into a right relation to God; we are still His enemy. The resulting punishment will be second death, the casting into the lake of fire, facing God\u2019s fully expressed wrath eternally (Ps 21:8-9, 50:3, 68:2; Mt 18:8, 25:41; Mk 9:43-45; 2 Thes 1:8-9; see also Dt 4:24, Heb 12:29).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n God instituted two aspects to His atoning work to be solutions to counter the two problems. These two aspects have distinct salvific (i.e. saving) purposes. Each aspect saves <\/strong><\/em>from something, and without both aspects, no person would ultimately be saved in the fullest, biblical sense of the term. In one aspect, Christ is an effectual savior for all people, while in the other aspect, Christ is especially effective as a savior for believers (1 Tim 4:10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christ objectively <\/em><\/strong>offered Himself as the substitute sacrifice to pay the legal penalty of sin (i.e. a penal This understanding of an effectual, corporate, universal aspect of atonement is what distinguishes pananastasism from other views of atonement and where the view gets its name, for pananastasism<\/em> is a term coined from the Greek words for \u201call\u201d (pan<\/em>) and \u201cresurrection\u201d (anastasis<\/em>), and thus means all-resurrected-ism. The only reason anyone, believer or unbeliever<\/strong><\/em>, is righteously freed from God’s legal penalty of physical death is because Christ paid that penalty for them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People must subjectively <\/em><\/strong>appropriate Christ as their Savior, through faith (i.e. believing<\/em><\/strong>), making Him their own personal sin offering (pictured by the personal atonement offerings of the OT; Leviticus chs. 1, 4-6, 14, et al.), thereby individually and particularly<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pananastasism (pronounced pan-ana-stas-ism) is a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ’s atonement arguing that His atoning work functions on two levels,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pananastasism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pananastasism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pananastasism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pananastasism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pananastasism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pananastasism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/pananastasism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pananastasism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pananastasism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pananastasism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Legal Penalty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Adam’s Sin<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Personal Sin<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
A Natural Consequence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
An Ontological Issue<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
A Relational Issue<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The Punishment Result<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Two Solutions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Corporate\/Universal Aspect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
substitutionary atonement<\/em><\/strong>) for all mankind. Acting as both High Priest and Sacrifice (pictured by the
corporate Day of Atonement yearly sacrifice of the OT; Leviticus ch. 16), His offering of Himself to physical death once is effectual<\/em> in exchanging for each person\u2019s physical death, thereby corporately and universally<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Individual\/Particular Aspect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n