Signposts: “Is Penal Substitutionary Atonement Immoral?”

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Christianity Today, Russell Moore

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 14 April 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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For thousands of years, Christians have taught that on Good Friday, Jesus bore the wrath of God for our sins. But is this an immoral belief? Can we worship a God who would pour out wrath on His Son? In this episode of Signposts I consider the doctrine of substitutionary atonement and explain why God is good, and not evil, to lay our sins on Christ. Listen to Signposts below, and subscribe to get new episodes automatically when they publish. Transcript coming soon. The post Signposts: “Is Penal Substitutionary Atonement Immoral?” appeared first on Russell Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.0	co-dot UK. I have a question that came in from a reader asking about
1:04.3	penal substitutionary atonement and if you don't know what that is
1:08.3	penal substitutionary atonement is the biblical I believe idea that Jesus died in our place that's what the
1:17.4	substitution is died in our in place of us and that he took upon himself the consequences of our sin, that he bore the judgment
1:28.6	of God on the cross.
1:30.6	That's what the penal, penalty comes from. And this reader says that he struggles with that
1:36.8	because he's heard people say that this idea of penal substitutionary
1:41.6	atonement is itself immoral.
1:44.1	And so he's wondering how one could hold to that idea of what happened on the cross
1:51.8	without turning God into someone that we would consider to be immoral.
1:59.5	We wouldn't treat one another this way.
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