Thank you for joining us on hashtag STR Ask.

Greg, are you ready to get going?

Yep.

I don't know why I ask you that.

Of course you are.

Of course you're ready. That's a way to half hour. You. I don't know why I ask you that. Of course you are. Of course you're ready.

That's a way to half hour. You're not sitting here for nothing. Whether I'm ready or not,

let's rock and roll. Okay. Here is a question from Todd from Burbank. All right.

For perfect justice, doesn't the penalty have to actually be paid by the one offending rather than by someone else or even the offended person?

I ask this as a Christian thinking about a potential objection that I may have to answer about Christ paying our penalty.

Sure.

Bill Craig has addressed this in his book on the Atonement, and the answer he gave, I think, is a fair one, all right. All that has to be

satisfied is the, what's the best way to put it, the desire or sensibilities, if you will,

of the one offended. Now, that's really key. It isn't like

there's perfect justice kind of hanging out there kind of in the ether, the moral ether somewhere,

and God is obliged to obey the law of perfect justice that's out there that applies to everyone,

including him, and that entails the concern that was just mentioned by Todd.

The issue is the offender, the offended one, and whether the one who is offended is satisfied with the payment.

Justice requires a payment be made.

But if you think about even crimes in our community, in our culture, and our jurisprudence, our legal system,

those crimes have punishments associated with them.

And the punishments are meant to be commensurate with the crime so that justice is done.

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