 What does the atonement do? What's the point of it? Well, the Bible says in Deuteronomy 1711, for the life of the flesh is in the blood and see God says that I have given it on the altar for you to make atonement for your souls. What that means is life is in the blood. Without the blood, there is no life. And so what does he do? He supplies the blood to make a payment for our sin. What the atonement does is it does three things. It covers our sin. In other words, he doesn't see the sin anymore. The debt is canceled, which is brought about by sin. The debt is paid by the blood. And because of that, the third thing, most importantly is there's this reconciliation whereby we as believers are reconciled to be with God and to be specific, to be with him forever. That's what the atonement does and that is certainly good news.