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Over at The Gospel Coalition Canada, Pastor Paul Carter recently wrote a blog on the atonement. In it, he attempted to distinguish between what can be known about the atonement and what remains mystery. I remain grateful for many of the things he clarified in this post, but I want to comment on one statement
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My pastor, Jacob Reaume, has recently said that “penal substitutionary atonement is central to the Christian gospel” and that “to deny penal substitutionary atonement (PSA) is to deny the Gospel.” I wholeheartedly agree. Without Christ’s penal substitution, there remains no saving gospel. There was no other way for the penalty of our sins to be
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On the cross, Jesus Christ paid the penalty for sin, fully bearing and satisfying God’s wrath toward the sins of his people. He was punished in our place as our substitute. He is the propitiation for our sins. This biblical truth is known as penal substitutionary atonement and is central to the gospel message. Without
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On the cross Jesus Christ suffered excruciatingly, and He became the propitiation for our sins. Propitiation is a theological word that means He completely satisfied God’s wrath towards our sin and turned God’s wrath away from us. As I recently explained, the Gospel is a Gospel of propitiation. That God’s wrath was turned away from
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Why did Jesus die on the cross? That the cross is central to Christianity makes the answer to that question crucially important. Central to all aspects of His crucifixion is that on the cross Jesus paid the penalty for sin. His payment fully satisfied God’s wrath so that His death turned God’s wrath away from us. On the cross he suffered the wrath we deserve…
Jesus died and suffered on the cross, but beyond that what did the crucifixion accomplish? “Atonement” is the term used to describe what Christ accomplished through His crucifixion. With millennia of church history behind us we should not be surprised by the vast attempts to explain the atonement. Some call the many explanations, “atonement theories.”
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Some think that if we believe in a theory of the atonement we believe a good-enough theory of the atonement. After all, atonement theories are just theories. So just pick a theory, and you’re as doctrinally astute as Jesus. At least that’s the thought pattern. Further, to disagree is to be divisive. Saying one theory
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Jesus Christ is the propitiation for our sins. That means He fully satisfied God’s wrath towards our sins, and turned God’s wrath away from us. I recently explained that the Gospel is a Gospel of propitiation, and to deny propitiation is to deny the Gospel. That Christ propitiated God is very very very good news.
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