Featured Just how does the wrath of god be appeased if no penal Substitution?

Biblically, I am not sure there is another way. The wrath of God is satisfied by Christ's sacrificial death on the cross. While I do not subscribe to the Christus Victor view of the Atonement, this theory claims that Christ's death made satisfaction for sin but it also adds that Christ had to redeem humanity and creation from the devil. I do not believe the latter view can be found in scripture.

 

"God" needs to have a capital "G"

 

You would need to back up and establish why He is required to show wrath in the first place.

 

By what means is our wrath (anger) propitiated?

True story:
My brother was walking the two blocks (1/2 mile) from a shopping center to his house, when a Methodist Minister suffered an attack of low blood sugar. The man in the car made a U-turn across the median of a divided highway, drove down the grass shoulder at 45 mph bouncing over the curbed driveways as he crossed them, and struck my brother from behind. Richard was ripped out of his shoes, bounced along the car crushing the hood, windshield and roof, before being flung like a rag-doll and landing thirty feet away in the street. He died gasping in the road, unable to breathe or speak as blood poured from his mouth, nose and ears.

[An aside: Under the OT Law,as the oldest male of my family the responsibility as the Blood Avenger would have fallen to me.]

At Richard's funeral, my younger (Richard's older) brother asked me if I wanted revenge. Here is what I responded to that question as I buried the baby brother that I had shared birthdays with all of his life (we were born two days apart and I have not celebrated a birthday since his death).

"If killing Reverend [blank] would bring Richard back, I would crush the life out of his body with my bare hands; but it won't. I want Richard alive, not him dead. There is nothing that I want from him."

Does it bother anyone else that I can forgive a murder without needing someone to die, and God can't?
[I do not believe that it is about paying for sin so God can forgive in the way that we describe a Judge paying the fine himself. It must be something far deeper than "fair"; something touching the innate character of God.]

 

There is a classic view of the atonement as Christ our Paschal Lamb. Jesus Christ is an efficacious sin offering that in fact takes away sin preconfigured in the sacrificial cultus of the tabernacle and temple. Jesus Christ is also the paschal lamb of Passover that guards those marked with His blood. Christ is also the sacrifice of a new covenant as at Mount Horeb when the old covenat was made by sacrifice and blood sprinkling the people. This view is easily backed up with Hebrews.

Unlike say the idea a ransom was paid to the devil, an ancient idea popularized by Chrysostom.

 

I agree with you. This is a spin off of another thread, and you need to scripturally prove it, whatever you want to call it.

 

I have looked at N.T. Wright's view of the Atonement and it is confusing. Wright has other problems, most notably his stand on Pauline justification, so I see him as more of an outlier on his atonement view.

The question you asked in your OP is how is God's wrath satisfied if there is no penal substitution? The short answer is penal substitution provides the clearest and most accurate biblical response to the Atonement. Christ paid the sin-debt for the Elect as a substitutionary sacrifice. Christus Victor and the Ranson Theory attempt to answer your question but I believe they fall short.

 

Thank you for your sympathy. God in His infinite wisdom decided to forge a sword.

You still have not explained why the Judge cannot simply release the prisoner without sending anyone to prison.

 

I am so sorry to hear about your brother. Your family has my well wishes and sympathy.

 

Answering, "What is Sin?" Sounds like a good place to start. In Eden it was to disobey God's command, making you into a competing will. In the language of governance, a rebel. Scripture seems to indicate it goes deeper than that. It is not just my present state that matters in the light of God's holiness. My past state matters too or else the Cross would not be needed. Beyond this I do not understand. We are talking about the nature of God after all.