Monday, 29 June 2009

  • Did Jesus ever say......?

    Mr. Darcy made an interesting observation to me about the substitutionary atonement (the idea that Christ died to pay a debt to God for our sins on our behalf.) It was that he couldn't remember anything that Christ said to God, either in His Last Words or in His great priestly prayer before His arrest, or other prayers, that said anything about paying our debt to God for us.

    He said things like 'I pray that "that they may be one, even as we are one." ' And 'forgive them for they know not what they do.' But not, for instance, "I go now to pay you the penalty for their sin and satisfy Your anger against them.'

    Can any of you find any of the conversations Christ had with the Father where He talked about paying our debt to God? Or anything that kind of sounds like it? I ask because I am a bit lazy, and also because I'm pretty sure it's not there, so why bother looking.

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