Sometimes I wonder whether our discomfort with penal substitution is part of a larger discomfort with materiality itself. We would prefer salvation to happen in the realm of ideas. We like it when Jesus teaches, inspires, and models love, and all of those things are wonderful and true. But Christianity insists on something stranger.
A body hangs on a cross.
Blood pours down.
Death takes our Lord.
Nic Babarskis
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