Sentences with word «substitutionary»

God is not just feeding a bigger and better victim into this machinery to get a bigger pay off, as the theory of substitutionary atonement might seem to suggest.

Third, I am not a fan of the Penal Substitutionary theory of the atonement.

When Bell undertook a speaking tour titled The Gods Aren't Angry, he was widely seen as abandoning the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement.

Not needing forgiveness would only mean changing our view of Jesus» death as substitutionary atonement.

The orthodox substitutionary doctrine of the atonement has a little trouble dealing with the fact that Jesus must bear, in our stead, the punishment due our sin.

No no no, God is love and therefore, substitution can not be the traditional penal substitutionary idea of St. Anselm and John Calvin, but the propitiation is the wrath of our anger and the wrath of Satan and Demons, and God turning His back on Jesus / Sin as He forsook him, because He had to give him over to us and the demons.

Only through substitutionary atonement can you have both justice AND grace simultaneously: justice because the sins of the world were atoned for by Christ (that was the WHOLE symbolic point of the OT sacrifice system!!)

That: the cross of Jesus is something that changes humanity's view of the Divine rather than (as the older substitutionary theories go) changing the Divine's view about humanity.

Absolutely there is a vision of God's protective hand over those where the blood is present, prefiguring the atoning substitutionary death of Christ, but there seems to be a clear indication that in this event (as in the ultimate culmination of judgement) it is God who is striking down the first born of the Egyptians, rather than God being an observer to an event outside of His control.

To present substitutionary atonement as cosmic child abuse makes a mockery of the gospel and completely disregards the holiness of God.

* But in the Bible, sacrifice is never about substitutionary payment for sin.

Jesus» prayer, «Father forgive them for they know not what they do», not a legalist substitutionary theory of the Atonement, is the biblical Revelation.

We read substitutionary atonement and the sacrificial system into Genesis 3:21 at our own theological peril.

I am still not persuaded to abandon Substitutionary Atonement in favor of «Christus Victor» (because God is not only merciful, but also just).

Let the atonement be a dollars - and - cents substitutionary transaction between an aloof, righteous judge of a God and sinful humanity or else a mythical Christus Victor military coup.

Anthony Quinn plays the thief who literally incarnates substitutionary atonement.

Not so with other substitutionary models where, for instance in the Christus Victor theory, Jesus» death sets us free as ransom or heals us as cure.

That sounds an awful lot like substitutionary atonement to me.

You have written elsewhere that the so - called Christus Victor view was the * earliest * and predates Substitutionary Atonement.

There is a truth to the «substitutionary sacrifice» theme, but it is not juridical and extrinsic - not just «paying a price».

Then he has a chapter on how the Penal Substitutionary view of the atonement leads to some bad theology about God and our sin.

If you have some extra reading time this week and are curious about N.T. Wright and the New Perspectives on Paul, check out this lengthy (and older) article by Wright that clarifies his position on substitutionary atonement.

Have you written on the Christus Victor view or the Penal Substitutionary view?

From the rituals in Leviticus, we learn that every sacrifice involves both sin - bearing and glorification, both substitutionary death and transfiguration.

Much coverage was given to the controversy around Steve's views against penal substitutionary atonement theology («Cross Purposes», September 2004) resulting in a symposium by the EA.

He has focused on the tendency of substitutionary ideas to set God, as the one who requires an expiatory death, over against Jesus, the one who suffers it.

If a person does have to believe in substitutionary atonement, what if that person holds the ransom to Satan view?

The substitutionary atonement of Christ on the cross (This is a must) Now I have some Orthodox friends who consider any person who is not Eastern Orthodox a Heterodox Christian while they view people who do not believe in the fundamentals as heretics.

The weight I place on the substitutionary atonement in my ministry and personal experience of life is full and has not shifted one inch.

Was it an «unlimited and substitutionary atonement»?

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Moreover, the atonement has to be substitutionary, to use the classic language, or I fail to see how it can ensure the being forgiven.

The Bible portrays the Cross as a substitutionary atonement, an atonement made without conditions.

Moreover, substitutionary atonement has to be imputed.

Grace is imputed in full on the basis of and as a result of the substitutionary atonement of Christ crucified for my original sin and that of the whole world.

The language of substitutionary atonement embarrasses our post-Enlightenment sensibilities.

Substitutionary atonement, where one suffers in place of others and clears them by bearing the penalty that they deserve, is in view of modern ideas of justice to the individual an immoral outrage.

A couple years ago, however, I began to find other Christians (throughout church history) who have not held to the substitutionary atonement view of Christ's death.