“Is atonement even possible?” Man! What an amazing scene! I can’t believe this was on a TV show. It really demonstrates the emptiness of the rhetoric of liberal theology when you need to know if you can ever find forgiveness for your sins. What can a chaplin, who believes in a Christ who was never resurrected, really say about forgiveness and atonement?(via)Update: You can watch the rest of the episode here. It turns out that the guy is a prison doctor who gave prisoners lethal injections and is now feeling guilty about it. He is looking for atonement so he goes to the families of those he has put to death and makes atonement to them. He saved the life of son of one of the prisoners but the mom refuses to forgive him. Too bad both of them didn’t understand that she can’t grant forgiveness and he can’t atone for his sins. There is only One who can make atonement:

1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

It’s also too bad that the hospital employs a chaplain who doesn’t believe that certainty exists. How can she counsel those who need help? Who are looking for salvation before they face the judgment seat of God? An ER is not the place where you put someone who can’t offer hope to those who are facing death.