Well, anybody with an English Bible can refute that assertion.

Paul says in 1 Corinthians 153 that Christ died for our sins

and accordance with the Scriptures.

Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast. I'm so excited to bring you this discussion today with Dr. William Lane Craig.

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I'm so thrilled and honored to welcome Dr. William Lane Craig to the podcast today. He's just a brilliant philosopher, apologist and author of many books.

He was recently named by the best schools as one of the 50 most influential living philosophers. And I think there were only about three Christians on that list. So that was quite an honor.

And so Dr. Craig, thanks so much for being on the podcast today and for taking the time.

I'm glad to do it, Alisha. Good to be with you.

Oh, great. Well, I've been such a fan of your work in so many different areas having to do with apologetics and philosophy, but I've been particularly thankful for your work that you've done recently on the atonement.

So the idea that Jesus died on the cross for our sins in a substitutionary sense and even more specifically in a penal substitutionary sense is an idea that's come under a lot of criticism lately, not just from non Christians or atheists.

But from many who would identify themselves as Jesus followers. And so your latest book called Atonement and the death of Christ and exogetical historical and philosophical exploration deals with this doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement.

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