Featured Did Jesus take on the wrath of God as propitiation for our sin?

Come on, brother. You are a more honest person than this post would indicate. Rather than simply responding emotionally please consider reasoning out what is written in Scripture. Misrepresenting opposing positions is beneath your character.

 

I agree that was their focus. Sometimes error is simply a matter of stretching one truth and ignoring others (to paraphrase Spurgeon).

As I have said, I held, preached, taught, and believed the Penal Substitution Theory of Atonement for decades. Throughout seminary this was my belief. As a preacher this influenced my sermons. As a teacher it influenced my teachings. Teaching theology, I presented the necessity of this view.

I have read the Puritians. I have read Calvin's Institutes, John Knox, John Owen (one of my favorites) and Jonathan Edwards (another favorite. especially The Freedon of the Will).

I understand your position. I get Penal Substitution Theory.

But it is not in the Bible. Not only is is not in Scripture, but it stands in opposition to Scripture more than any other major view of the Atonement. And it falsely colors so much of Scripture.

I was no less saved when I believed Penal Substitution Theory than I am now.

I can still "see" the Theory in Scripture, but only as an error I once carried there. The Penal Substitution Theory of Atonement cheapens grace and downgrades the character of God.

That said, since God moved me from that Theory towards a greater appreciation and understanding of Scripture I have a better grasp on the work of Christ as presented in the Bible which has encouraged spiritual growth that would have been impossible under the false teachings of Penal Substitution Theory.

I have not wrestled with the fact Penal Substitution Theorists are saved. I was once one. But I have wrestled with the fact many professing Christians cling to the Theory after being exposed to the truth of Scripture...after others pleading with them to shake off "worldly wisdom" and simply read God's Word.

Look at this thread. How many times has @agedman and I been insulted or belittled for sticking to the text of Scripture and denying what others believe those text "teach"? It is not a big deal for me (@agedman and I are not what is important here). What is important is what is (and is not) contained in God's Word.

 

No, brother. What @agedman and I have done is present Scripture without additions.

Your theory (what you say Scripture "teaches") is not actually in the Bible. They are additions.

Why should they be believed as they fail the test of Scripture?

 

You are asking me to prove a negative. Can you show any post where @agedman and I dud avoid it? No, of course not. You are just trying to obscure the issue.

Christ is the Propitiation for the sins of the world. In Him we escape the wrath to come. All Judgment has been given Him (in Him there s no condemnation). It is appointed man once to die and then the Judgment. We must die to the flesh and be made alive, recreated, reborn in Christ.

The issue is not whether we have dealt with God's wrath but how Scripture (not your theory) actually deals with God's wrath. And here you have denied Scripture in favor of revised Roman Catholic Doctrine.

 

You have not been insulting and I have enjoyed our conversation. I love talking about our redemption. I am not here to change anybody mind but hope that people (including myself) will constantly look at their understandings against the Bible.

How does God deal with human sin? God's wrath is set against the wicked. They are condemned.
Under the Law they must die. But God is just and the justifier of sinners. How? Men must be made new creations. We must die to the flesh....all flesh must die...and be made alive in Christ. The guilty man must perish - must be born again. Those mot born again, not in Christ, will suffer God's wrath at the Judgment.

What did the "atonement" (the reconciliation) accomplish? Man was reconciled to God by Christ's death and men are saved by His Life.

 

Yet this is false.

God's wrath is against the wicked. @agedman and I never denied this

The Biblical word for "atonement" (at-one-ment) is "reconciliation". It is not a pagan sacrifice but man being reconciled to God.

There are no passages that present Christ as our substitute. Christ died for us ("on our behalf) which means "in our intrest" or "as a representative" He is "the Last Adam".

We are purchased with a price. Neither @agedman nor I have even discussed this yet (which proves you are obscuring the topic). The price for our redemption is the "blood of Christ". He ransomed us by offering Himself as an atonement for our sins.

Where we depart is we have rejected your theory as not only foreign to Scripture but opposed to it.

I notice you have not acknowledged passages stating that sins will not be transfered and that God will not substitute the just for the unjust. Why? Because you reject those passages to follow the men who "tickle your ears".

 

I never said you give RC teaching. I said you hold RCC doctrine once removed, reformed RCC doctrine, and revised Roman Catholic Doctrine. You claim the doctrine when you claim Penal Substitution Theory (do you not understand what "reformed" means?????).

 

Yet no member, thus far, has provided ANY passage that teaches Christ suffered God's wrath instead of us.

Don't you find that fact odd? You say it is in Scripture but can't find it in even one passage without adding to that passage.