It seems to me that there are two irreconcilable attributes in the heart of God:
1) Justice; which requires that the exact punishment be meted out for crimes committed;
and,
2) Mercy; which desires that less than what is deserved be meted out as punishment.
Justice and mercy meet at the Cross.
Jesus, dying in the place of us, took the penalty for our sins in order that justice might be satisfied and mercy also might be given; for He took the due penalty for our sins.
This is what is preached as THE GOSPEL by many who are included in the orthodox branch of what is termed Christianity today.
If it is not really the gospel, then these preachers are guilty of misleading the majority of those who have become Christians.
If this is not the gospel, then I would ask you, what is?
There is going to have to be something that is going to fill the vacuum that is left when you strip away what is commonly referred to as the gospel by saying that it is false doctrine.
So, anyone who denies the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement, please, by all means, preach to us what is THE REAL GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST that replaces what has been preached as the gospel by the majority of evangelists for the past 4 centuries at least.
I hope that you have something that you define as the real gospel to replace it?
Because if you don't, then you are asking us to accept the idea that there is NO REAL GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST which we are to believe in unto salvation.
I would say to you unequivocally that such a thing is unacceptable.
1) Justice; which requires that the exact punishment be meted out for crimes committed;
and,
2) Mercy; which desires that less than what is deserved be meted out as punishment.
Justice and mercy meet at the Cross.
Jesus, dying in the place of us, took the penalty for our sins in order that justice might be satisfied and mercy also might be given; for He took the due penalty for our sins.
This is what is preached as THE GOSPEL by many who are included in the orthodox branch of what is termed Christianity today.
If it is not really the gospel, then these preachers are guilty of misleading the majority of those who have become Christians.
If this is not the gospel, then I would ask you, what is?
There is going to have to be something that is going to fill the vacuum that is left when you strip away what is commonly referred to as the gospel by saying that it is false doctrine.
So, anyone who denies the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement, please, by all means, preach to us what is THE REAL GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST that replaces what has been preached as the gospel by the majority of evangelists for the past 4 centuries at least.
I hope that you have something that you define as the real gospel to replace it?
Because if you don't, then you are asking us to accept the idea that there is NO REAL GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST which we are to believe in unto salvation.
I would say to you unequivocally that such a thing is unacceptable.