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Scripture is very simple....so much so that the World views it as foolishness.

Through Adam's transgression sin entered the World and through sin death. God promised Adam deliverance in that while the Serpent will strike the heel He will crush ots head.

Man falls short of God's glory. God gave Israel the Law. This provided man with an example or manifestation of God's righteousness. Man cannot meet this righteousness.

In His forbearance God implemented a sacrificial system where by He would pass over sins until the New Covenant. The sacrificial system foreshadowed the sin offering God would make by sending His Son to bear our sins in His body.

Christ suffered and died under the judgment of the World which esteemed Him as stricken by God. God vindicated His Son and raised Him to life, giving all judgment to Him.

Christ did not die to appease God. No Christian until the Reformation taught that Christ died to appease God. Augustine put it best when he described such belief as heresy.

Christ died to appease the World, to appease a satanic idea of justice that would seek to kill the Righteous One.

We are redeemed from the chains of Satan, the bondage of sin and death. Those in Christ escape the Judgment to come.

Penal Substitution Theory is wrong. It is an attempt to interpret redemption via secular wisdom with Satan as the moral standard of justice. It is found nowhere in the Bible.

 

If you mean Penal Substitution sticks with Scripture and rejects the theory that Christ's death was to appease God, God punished Christ (or our sins He laid on Him) instead of us, and Christ experienced God's wrath....then I have no issue. I believe the verses you provide do very well with the Atonement.

 

Exactly.

Christ bore our sins in His body. He died the death we earn. He died for our sins - the Just for the unjust. And, God forsake Christ to suffer and die at the hands of wicked men.

And when Christ suffered and died at the hands of these wicked men, under the power of Satan, God vindicated Him and raised Him from the dead. Christ, having gained victory over sin and death, having victory over Satan, freed us from its bonds. Death no longer has its sting.

It has nothing to do with Penal Substitution Theory, though. That theory replaces evil with God and claims Christ suffered and died at God's hand (rather than at the hands of "wicked men" under the predetermined plan of God.

The Theory is different because it changes and adds to Scripture. It is a false doctrine.

 

Christ did not appease God. Christ died under the powers of this world, under the bondage of sin and death. God vindicated Christ. All judgment has been given to Christ (John 5:22).

 

According to Penal Substitution Theory He did. But not according to the Bible.

 

Christ did bear our sins. And He suffered under the bondage of sin and death, the powers of this world.

Unless Peter was wrong in Acts, and God was wrong in Genesis, then it was the World's "justice" under which Christ suffered and died (by the predetermined plan of God).