[Blogger]

Denial of Christ's Penal Substitutionary Atonement is indeed another gospel. It is a key truth of Christianity. Without the understanding that Jesus died to pay the penalty for MY sins, how can one be saved?

[Mad Dawg]

Your Bloggerness:

I am fast getting the notion that RCs use one kind of language about the atonement, EO's use a similar one, and among the other groups or non-groups represented here there are lots of other approaches.

Does that sound correct?

Here's a rerun of the bunch I put up earlier:

1. "Classic": Stomping the Devil
2. "Sacrificial": Making a new Union by His Sacrifice
3. "Satisfactory": Paying the debt of Sin
4. "Exemplary": Revealing God to us who do not Know Him.

Clearly this is as sketchy as can be. But I'm thinking that what some here are saying doesn't fit (or isn't seen by them to be fitting) this list. My impression is that none of these is adequate, all are to some extent true, are SOME aspect of a WAY greater mystery. Until this thread I never thought I disagreed with any significant bunch o' folks about the Atonement. Now i'm wondering.

Any clarification or comments?

[P-Marlowe]

Without the understanding that Jesus died to pay the penalty for MY sins, how can one be saved?

Doing Pennance.

Gal 1:6-7.