Daily Archives: May 30, 2012

77 Questions about the Atonement (Q&A #4)

 4.     Weren’t our sins imputed to Christ at the Cross?

The Scriptures say nothing like this, and if they don’t teach it, we are not obliged to believe it.  They say that Jesus bore or carried our sins—a very different matter.  God surrendered him to the sins of his people to suffer their abuse and thereafter to receive an overcompensating reward for his heroism in this mortal combat that overturned Satan’s strategy in a sting operation on a cosmic scale.

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