Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7098 Substitutionary atonement is the teaching that Jesus died in the place of sinners, bearing what they deserved so that they need not bear it themselves. Add the word penal and you have the full claim: what He bore was not suffering only but penalty, the judicial consequence of sin under a righteous God….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7079. Physical healing as a guaranteed benefit of the atonement is taught confidently in a good many places, and the proof text is almost always the same. Isaiah says that with his stripes we are healed, Peter quotes it, and the conclusion drawn is that sickness in a believer indicates either unconfessed sin or…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3060. Ask about the appearance of Jesus and most people can supply an answer instantly: long hair, flowing robe, serene European features, perhaps a soft glow. Two thousand years of paintings, icons and films have fixed an image in the world’s mind. There is only one problem with it. Not a single detail of…