Penal substitutionary atonement

doctrine · 14 episodes

242Baptism and Rebirth 6 Jul 2026 16:00¶ 67 “The heart of Isaiah 53 of course is substitutionary atonement. Here is a man who is suffering for sins that are not his. “For…” 12:57¶ 53 “The passage itself – obviously we know it fairly well as we’re talking about it. We look back at it as one of the…” 13:27¶ 54 “That was one of the things pointed out recently, maybe in one of my husband’s sermons, that when sheep are slaughtered, the normal meaning…”

221On the Mount of Olives 21 Jul 2025 6:34¶ 18 “I was going to add one thing that had just sort of come to me that I hadn’t thought about before in this verse.…” 7:15¶ 19 “I was just thinking there’s a double meaning that I hadn’t thought of before in the sense that Jesus is going to take that…” 7:54¶ 20 “He becomes the greatest of sinners on the cross, bearing the full wrath and curse of God. So yes, we have two choices. We…”

177The Story 22 Jan 2024 5:48¶ 22 “We’re not told that God explained any of this, that the seed of the woman and the sacrificed lamb are the same person, and…” 6:49¶ 26 “So that’s what we’ve got and that’s what they had, but God did give them around 900+ years to meditate on it and think…” 7:15¶ 27 “You mean as a substitute?”

150Doing the Right Thing 26 Dec 2022 11:01¶ 37 “Secondly, the idea of substitutionary atonement and therefore justification by faith made no moral sense. “How can God punish someone else for my sins?…”

139The Suffering Servant of Yahweh 10 Oct 2022 22:59¶ 66 “A sin offering, so yes, in case we missed it, we’re talking the language of blood atonement. We’re talking sacrifice. We’re talking reconciliation upon…” 23:20¶ 67 “How can God deal with sin? How can he receive the sinner and punish the sin? By punishing it in someone else. Someone has…” 12:02¶ 30 “That sounds pretty substitutionary to me.”

109Absalom 14 Mar 2022 42:39¶ 150 “That’s not the biblical doctrine of repentance. Biblical salvation comes because Jesus bore our sin. He bore our penalty. The penalty was not washed…” 37:35¶ 138 “It is. Why does God put all this in? Why do we care about a footrace? Because there’s more going on here. We’re used…”

77Achan's Sin 2 Aug 2021 42:02¶ 144 “Also just as a rebuttal to that idea, it’s the common phrase “cosmic child abuse.” I think that’s what David Bentley Hart calls it,…” 44:50¶ 151 “So when you talk about the sacrifice of the Son, 1) it’s the same God, and 2) it’s not the Son as held at…” 40:02¶ 135 “No, so that brings us back again to what we were talking about, the American Gospel, the second one, where the people who are…”

57The Economics of Sacrifice 31 Jan 2021 10:44¶ 31 “Sacrificing is a different thing. It’s God portraying, and we keep coming back to this, that God portrays in the sacrament that he set…” 31:52¶ 105 “Jesus, the Messiah, the Lamb of God, he dies for me and takes away my sins, the penal substitution. He bears the just penalty…” 5:45¶ 14 “The reason that sacrifice means death is because that’s what the altar means. Things have died and then they’re placed on the altar. Before…”

56The Sociology of Sacrifice (Part 2) 24 Jan 2021 16:20¶ 54 “I’ve recommended American Gospel Part 2: Christ Crucified, and you can hear lots of voices within the progressive and emergent church who are just…” 17:15¶ 56 “The animal sacrifice from Adam and Eve to Abel and on shows that God always had the same idea. It’s always the same gospel.…” 15:50¶ 52 “There are people in our age who think that’s absolutely horrible. What kind of God would demand the death of an animal? What he’s…”

55The Sociology of Sacrifice (Part 1) 17 Jan 2021 14:04¶ 42 “This is really, really important because the worshiper is confessing that it is his sin that has brought about the death of this substitute,…” 14:55¶ 44 “So we’re back to God has a message. The message is about penal substitution. God will provide a sacrifice from the midst of his…” 22:37¶ 70 “What? It’s the blood of the sacrifice! I have no idea what was going through his head at that moment. It blew anything he…”

42The Metaphysics of Life 18 Oct 2020 28:47¶ 92 “It’s also not loving to disrespect your parents or to not observe the Sabbath. These are loving towards God, to respect and honor the…” 29:17¶ 93 “If he could do that, Jesus didn’t have to die.” 29:23¶ 95 “Yeah, that’s a counter-gospel. As Emily said, then Jesus didn’t have to die and the whole gospel is a very sad joke on God’s…”

17Mythmaking 26 Apr 2020 34:21¶ 91 “There’s absolutely no similarity between that and Christianity. Christianity says, “You’re a creature. You’ve ethically rebelled against a holy God. You deserve to go…” 33:19¶ 89 “There’s no resemblance here between the Christian idea of the death and resurrection of our Savior as a penal substitute, his physical victory over…”

11Guilt and Self-Atonement 15 Mar 2020 29:28¶ 96 “When the Bible points us to Jesus as the penal substitute for our sins, as the sin-bearer, the guilt-bearer, the one to whom God…” 29:45¶ 97 “The problem is, in order to claim that substitute, to lay hold of that mercy we have to admit our guilt. Then we have…” 30:24¶ 98 “The most vicious enemies of the gospel have always been those who’ve risen from within the camp of the faithful. Cain was Abel’s brother.…”

3Chaos, Order, and Origins 19 Jan 2020 36:39¶ 95 “This God-man went to the cross and died a penal substitutionary death in the place of sinners so that those who trust in him…” 35:41¶ 93 “It is the second Person of this Trinity – the second Person of the Godhead, the Son – who in the Father’s good will…”