Featured Biblical Penal Substitution

see my post #192. The death of Jesus averts/reverses the wrath of God, but the wrath of God is not displaced upon Jesus. Just as the blood of the passover lamb averts the angel of death, but the angel of death does not slay the passover lamb.

 

Not Jon but a thought: and Abraham saith, 'God doth provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son;' and they go on both of them together.

 

Would you agree that the concept of the sinless One, giving his life, his soul being, a ransom required him becoming, sin?

How can the wages be paid?----- and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

 

Important point of clarification for this thread. Wages are not paid. Wages are earned or received. Thus, death is not paid either. There is no such thing as a "debt of death" as many penal substitution advocates mistakenly claim. That is the exact opposite of what the Bible says.

On the cross, Jesus receives the wages of sin undeservedly because he is without sin, thus justice demands that these wages be taken back, that death be reversed, hence the resurrection.

 

The lamb died so that the Israelites would not suffer the same fate as the Egyptians, hence the name 'passover' (c.f. Exodus 12:13). There was nothing in the Israelites that made them less worthy of judgement than the Egyptians, just as there is nothing in the Christian at the point of salvation that makes him more worthy than his neighbour. Salvation belongs to our God.
You are right, of course, that it's all about God's glory, and you are right that we are freed from the bonds of Satan just as Israel was freed from the power and bondage of Pharaoh