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Straight From The Horses Mouth

Posted May 3 2010 by Jonathan Brink in  with 6 Comments

“This is one of the problems with—and I don’t mean the actual theory—but how it is popularly taken. It presents God as someone who never [really] forgives.

If you get off the hook, it’s because somebody paid for it.”

Dallas Willard on Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory

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  • http://www.adamlehman.us AdamLehman

    This dillema is something I'd struggled with my entire life. As a teenager growing up in a well-known parachurch ministry, I was trained in explaining to people that Jesus' death “paid” for our sins and that one must accept that gift or else God would still be mad at them.

    When I read Brian McLaren's “secret message of Jesus” 4 years ago, it was the first time I ever heard another person verbalize that Jesus' life might have had MORE puposes than to simply live for a while and then pay for our sins.

  • http://www.adamlehman.us AdamLehman

    This dillema is something I'd struggled with my entire life. As a teenager growing up in a well-known parachurch ministry, I was trained in explaining to people that Jesus' death “paid” for our sins and that one must accept that gift or else God would still be mad at them.

    When I read Brian McLaren's “secret message of Jesus” 4 years ago, it was the first time I ever heard another person verbalize that Jesus' life might have had MORE puposes than to simply live for a while and then pay for our sins.

  • http://jonathanbrink.com Jonathan Brink

    I've spent the better part of three years collecting responses to the traditional theories of atonement, and for the life of me I've never heard this one. And it seems so simple. The tension is in the idea that God is not willing to do what he requires us to do. Dooooooh!

  • http://jonathanbrink.com Jonathan Brink

    I've spent the better part of three years collecting responses to the traditional theories of atonement, and for the life of me I've never heard this one. And it seems so simple. The tension is in the idea that God is not willing to do what he requires us to do. Dooooooh!

  • http://www.whateveryoudo.tumblr.com David

    tweetable!

  • http://www.whateveryoudo.tumblr.com David

    tweetable!

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