Was Christ A Substitution For The Penalty Of Sin?

[RSS Robot]

LTRP Note: The emerging church teaches that the meaning of Christ’s death on the Cross wasn’t that He became our substitute for the penalty of our  sins, as a loving God would never send His Son to a violent death for the sins of others; rather, emergents say He was an example of “servant leadership” […]

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[1Timothy115]

Do you think there is a possibility discussing propitiation, reconciliation, and substitution might be too difficult for the 'emerging' religion crowd? If pressed by a student at a Christian college, do you think you could readily discuss these?

[MountainChristian]

The Professor says get out of my class and their tuition fees are lost, plus their time until they can find a new class next semester. 

[Gabrielle A]

Redemption: 1. the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil.

                     2. the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt.

 

Propitiation:  an action meant to regain someone's favor or make up for something you did wrong.

 

Remission:    1. the cancellation of a debt, charge, or penalty.

                     2. a temporary diminution of the severity of disease or pain.

 

Romans 3

²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴ Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵ Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶ To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

[1Timothy115]

Redemption: 1. the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil.

                     2. the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt.

 

Propitiation:  an action meant to regain someone's favor or make up for something you did wrong.

 

Remission:    1. the cancellation of a debt, charge, or penalty.

                     2. a temporary diminution of the severity of disease or pain.

 

Romans 3

²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴ Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵ Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶ To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

I like Webster's on propitiation...

PROPITIATION, n. propisia'shon.

 

1. The act of appeasing wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

 

2. In theology, the atonement or atoning sacrifice offered to God to assuage his wrath and render him propitious to sinners. Christ is the propitiation for the sins of men. Rom.3. 1 John 2.

[Calvary]

Romans 3 the word propitiation is a noun - it is not an action, it is a payment, a satisfaction. Christ PAID for our sins, he did not propitiate our sins, he was the propitiation, according to Romans 3

[1Timothy115]

Romans 3 the word propitiation is a noun - it is not an action, it is a payment, a satisfaction. Christ PAID for our sins, he did not propitiate our sins, he was the propitiation, according to Romans 3

Yes that's what the little n. after propitiation ("PROPITIATION, n. ") means. So when you read the definition and see 'propitiation', read it as a noun, it makes proper sense.