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Since it was God who put Christ to grief and made His soul an offering for sin, and the Lord Jesus who willingly obeyed, you are unwise to call His death unjust. Also, PSA does not view the cross as making reconciliation possible; it views the cross as making reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18).

I interpret it in the same way as the Lord Jesus does. "Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.' We should always look to find Christ in all the Scriptures.

Well then, I don't think you understand it. The question is: 1. Did Christ take and bear our sins, God laying them on Him? 2. Did He so take them as to undergo the punishment due in respect of them? 3. Did He do this in our stead? I think we are agreed on No.1 in the affirmative. I'm sure you...

I think the way to look at this is to recall the Scapegoat in Lev. 16, esp. v.22. 'The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land....' In the same way, the Lord Jesus bears away our sins. Our sins, or the guilt of them, are transferred to Him and He, having paid the...

How then do you account for 1 Peter 2:24? Isaiah tells us that the Lord laid our sins upon the Lord Jesus, and Peter tells us that He bore them in His own body, on the tree. The reference to a tree (c.f. Gal. 3:13) tells us that He also bore the curse of our sins. He bears our sins, but we...

In the Preface of the Translators to the Reader, the translation committee of the KJV wrote, ‘We do not deny, nay, we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English set forth by men of our profession……containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God.’ I could...

Fascinating! So what do you think Isaiah 53:6c means? 'And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.' How is that not God 'transferring our sins from us and laying them on Jesus'? And 1 Peter 2:24? 'Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree.' How is our Lord bearing...

I am interested to know exactly how you reconcile these two statements. I think it would be very helpful for me and @DaveXR650 to understand that. The first seems totally to negate the need for the cross; the second seems to be the doctrine of penal substitution -- not your theory of PSA, but...

I have no experience of witnessing to Buddhists, but generally the best way to introduce the Gospel is to speak of the Lord Jesus -- of His miraculous birth, His perfect life, His love towards sinners, His atoning death on their behalf, His glorious resurrection, His acension into heaven and His...

No. We disagree on how your theology misuses the text. I am absolutely certain that unless Christ has paid in full the penalty demanded by God for our sins, we shall have to pay the penalty ourselves. But praise God, He has satisfied God's wrath against sin, so the point is moot Whether or not...

Well, do you know of a passage that states that God forgives sins apart from Christ crucified? If silence is all you require, I could offer Romans 3:25-26 and Isaiah 53:10-11, but in fact, as we all know, faith and repentance are both necessities, as is Christ crucified. I can agree with that...

A fair question. @DaveXR650 has answered very well. Perhaps I can add just a few things more. I think the key text is Romans 3:25-26. 'Whom God set forth as a propitiation.....' A propitiation is a an offering that takes away wrath. Puritan and other writers speak of a 'satisfaction' to...

You are right, of course. This is the deadly danger of basing one's theology on one verse or one chapter and not taking in to account the rest of the Bible. @JonC is very prone to do this. For example, if one reads Acts 2:37-38, it appears that Peter has nothing whatsoever to say about faith...

Beware of what? Of Roman Catholicism? You bet! What seems to be happening in the UK is that many people, having lived their lives without any moorings, have found out that that way of living doesn't really work amd are looking for something with authority to cling to. Unfortunately some of...

I don't think that's so. Acts 2:21. 'And everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.' The calling on the name of the Lord comes first, then the salvation. But nor I do believe that dead people can believe, or, indeed, do anything else. God must first open the eyes of a sinner...

Surely the essence of discipleship is obeying the Lord's commands (Matt. 28:19; Luke 22:19)? The Quaker meeting house in Exmouth UK is the most liberal 'church' in the town, which is saying something. Whether or not they are growing, I am not aware. So far as I can discern, the growing...

I don't think I do. So the entire New Testament, since it is in Greek, is useless in understanding the atonement. Is that what you're saying? Now the word that you are being so precious about is nepes or nephesh (Strongs 5315 in case anyone is interested). In appears almost 800 times in the...

I think perhaps you ought to make up your mind. Leviticus 17:11. 'For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.' Hebrews 9:22. 'And according to the law almost all...

i Samuel 16:7. 'For man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.' Having written that, I regret that so many Pastors today dress like yobs in the pulpit. If speakers want people to listen to them, I think they would do well to look resectable. Whenever I preach, I...

I'm not sure that 'the soul that sins shall die' is a secular judicial philosophy. The good news is that the Lord Jesus has willingly taken upon Himself our sins and the punishment due to us (Isaiah 53:5 etc.) and that as a result we are indeed reconciled to God (Romans 5:6-9).