"Substitutionary atonement" is a religious concept that suggests someone can take the punishment or consequences for someone else's wrongdoing. It is the idea that a person can be a substitute or sacrifice to make up for the sins or mistakes of others.
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I am still not persuaded to abandon
Substitutionary Atonement in favor of «Christus Victor» (because God is not only merciful, but also just).
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.
I grew up assuming that all sermons necessarily include a full exposition of our inability to make recompense for sin and of Christ's
substitutionary atonement for that sin on the Cross.
The abandonment that occurred at Calvary may not have been the great act of
substitutionary atonement wrought by God in Christ, De Vries suggests, but a fearful sign of God's perpetual truancy amidst human anguish.
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!!)
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.
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.
Ever since Michael Gungor and Audrey Assad went off against
Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA) on Twitter, I've been trying to learn about the various theories out there.
Themes such as God's supremacy and sovereignty, the depravity of man, God's wrath toward sinners, the redemption of the elect through God's irresistible grace, and the idea that God's holiness required a judicial,
substitutionary atonement in the form of retributive judgment.
A fervently religious child, with a pension for impromptu lectures to classmates
about substitutionary atonement and eternal security, this news came as a bit of blow, but I supposed I could find my calling elsewhere.
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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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.
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.
If a person does have to believe in
substitutionary atonement, what if that person holds the ransom to Satan view?
If a person must believe in the death of resurrection of Jesus, is it sufficient to believe in the historical facts of these events, or does a person also have to believe in
substitutionary atonement?
Meanwhile, Protestants / evangelicals have focused on justification,
substitutionary atonement (while folks in the pew have focused on a transaction, decision, etc to get others to invite Jesus into their hearts.
Substitutionary atonement is when God, out of His great love for us, allowed Jesus to became our substitute, and in Himself, defeat sin and death.
Bobby, Well, I am not denying the penal
substitutionary atonement, or the wrath of God.
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Designed to test Warren's doctrine on everything from the sovereignty of God, to unconditional election, to
substitutionary atonement, to homosexuality, the interview was seen by Piper as proof that Rick Warren was indeed a «doctrinally sound» evangelist.
You are, it seems, not a proponent of
the substitutionary atonement, but so far that is what I have believed.
You are right that I am not a proponent of
substitutionary atonement.
It is proud of its opposition to modern liberalism and its defense of the five «fundamentals» — the virgin birth, biblical inerrancy,
substitutionary atonement, and the bodily resurrection and imminent return of Jesus.
There is less emphasis on
substitutionary atonement, with greater openness towards pluralist views of salvation and a liberal view of morality.
It was about
substitutionary atonement, or as he called it, «the great switcheroo.»
(I was the first person to explain
the Substitutionary Atonement theory to one of our bishops, and at first he couldn't believe anyone could possibly believe that, and once convinced was appalled.)