tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5581050.post1305616975799502954..comments2024-03-21T05:10:57.134+00:00Comments on Mustard Seed Shavings: Substitutionary AtonementSteve Tilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17400505989949096631noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5581050.post-58977711509979293992016-08-23T14:46:22.992+01:002016-08-23T14:46:22.992+01:00I was struck recently, as I read Romans, by the wa...I was struck recently, as I read Romans, by the way that when Paul wrote about the cross and Jesus dying, he always linked it to the resurrection. Now, I'm no biblical scholar, but it seemed to me that a possible point from this is that it wasn't the death alone that did the at-one-ing but the death and resurrection.... that sin leads to death and it is only as death is defeated that we are one with God.<br /><br />I was struck, more recently, by the difference between Hebrews and Romans... I have decided, with almost no evidence to back me up! :-) that Hebrews was written by Apollos before he met Priscilla and Aquila... <br /><br />oh crikey... there are some readers of st's blog who know what they're talking about here...:-O I'll go and get some teaCaroline Toohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04751846730467721675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5581050.post-18376829868476258402016-08-23T07:34:54.637+01:002016-08-23T07:34:54.637+01:00With respect I think they've framed the questi...With respect I think they've framed the question the wrong way.<br /><br />If you frame it in terms not of me, but of the covenants made by God (that there is such a thing as right and wrong, and that there have to be consequences to doing wrong for right and wrong to be meaningful), then I have no issue with substitutionary atonement. I can distinguish a difference between wrath and anger: God's wrath ultimately is justifiable, human anger is not.<br /><br />But I'm also with you on the last question: God is God, and who are we to tell him how to run his business?Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09194881271051758232noreply@blogger.com