Barbour... wrote an article for The Herald denying the doctrine of the Atonement ​ — denying that the death of Christ was the Ransom - price for Adam and his race, saying that our Lord’s death could no more avail for the payment of the penalty of man’s sins than would the sticking of a pin through the body of a fly and causing it suffering and death be considered by an earthly parent as a just settlement for misdemeanor in his child. ”
बार्बर... ने द हेरल्ड के लिए एक लेख लिखा, जिस में उसने हरजाने के धर्मसिद्धान्त को नकारा — यह नकारते हुए कि मसीह की मौत आदम और उसके वंश के लिए छुड़ाई की क़ीमत थी ।