A better term for PSA—the Simple Atonement.

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Our Lord Jesus Christ suffered death to ransom-purchase us for God. Death is our Father's judgment for sin, and our Father out of loving grace sent His own Son to die for our sins. In doing so, God shows that He is righteous for justifying everyone who believes in Jesus Christ, and only by believing in the death of Jesus Christ for our sins can one's consciousness of sin be cleansed so that he can approach God without guilt.

God loved us and sent His Son to save us from His wrath for sin. He did not show any retribution to His own Son. He showed loving grace towards us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. By God's grace, our sins were applied to His death, as our Lord said upon giving up His spirit, "It is finished".

What punishment does one deserve for sin? According to our God, it is death. What did the OT sacrifices do? Died for the sins of the people. What did our Lord do? Die for the sins of all everyone.

Did God kill His Son? No, according to our Lord, "Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

And according to Peter in Acts 2, he preached to the Jews, "Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death"...“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

Did God condemn His Son or just our sins in His sacrificial death? According to the Apostle Paul, "God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh".

God did not expend any wrath or retribution at His Son. This line of thinking is nowhere to be found in the bible.

God Bless

Ransom Theory. Many years ago when I first started reconsidering my theology based upon where I had been guided by peers and family, I dug into the various "Atonement Theories" that were recognized at the time. Since then, much of this has been "revisited" in certain circles.

In the context of the "Ransom Theory", I couldn't reconcile the context of payment associated with the teaching. We must first, I believe, start with the idea of a "cost".

Removing the context of "money" (which I believe is very meaningful in how mankind/Satan judges value) what establishes the context of "cost"

This isn't intend to be a post relative to criticizing anyone. Just looking to really "unwrap" this for others.

The context of "sin" having "value" that would "cost" Christ... His bodily life, is foreign to my way of constructing my theology. At least that is where I'm at in all of this relative to the "ransom" theory.

Thanks

 

[Joe]

Ransom Theory. Many years ago when I first started reconsidering my theology based upon where I had been guided by peers and family, I dug into the various "Atonement Theories" that were recognized at the time. Since then, much of this has been "revisited" in certain circles.

In the context of the "Ransom Theory", I couldn't reconcile the context of payment associated with the teaching. We must first, I believe, start with the idea of a "cost".

Removing the context of "money" (which I believe is very meaningful in how mankind/Satan judges value) what establishes the context of "cost"

This isn't intend to be a post relative to criticizing anyone. Just looking to really "unwrap" this for others.

The context of "sin" having "value" that would "cost" Christ... His bodily life, is foreign to my way of constructing my theology. At least that is where I'm at in all of this relative to the "ransom" theory.

Thanks

Hi Brother,

I agree sin has no value that would cost the life of our Lord, but it is us who were enslaved to sin and under the judgment of God for sinning that God valued. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life.

Our Holy Father ransomed us-paid the expense necessary by giving His Son to free us from the tyranny of sin, and from death and the grave that came as a result of our sinning. And by the blood-death of our Lord, He has freed us from being held to a performance based righteousness that fueled sin, and now we are under grace to a faith based righteousness where sin has no dominion over us only God's Spirit. He has freed us from death and the grave when Jesus our Lord offered His life up to die for our sins that we committed, and resurrected from the grave to newness of life that He shares with us eternally. The record of sin has been pardoned and no longer remembered, and we are united-one with God now and forever! Praise the Lord!

The expense necessary to ransom-redeem us was the sinless blood of our Lord.

God Bless