Not an angry God for sure.
Not an angry God for sure.
The term ransom was well known (and well used) in those times. The pagan bandits roaming the hills, as well as Roman political intrigue all used kidnapping and ransoming regularly. I believe that the term was used advisedly and deliberately and it meant the same then in Greek as it does now in English.
Not an angry God for sure.
May I offer something to this conversation? Satan was expecting the ransom.
"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that THROUGH DEATH HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM THE HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE DEVIL." Heb. 2:14.
Satan's rights are recognized in Scripture..He is the god and prince of the world who had the power of death and hell before his defeat by atonement.
We all know that the wages of sin is death, and sin is the failure to keep the law. Satan kept mankind sentenced to death, as no one could fulfill the law perfectly. Until Jesus Christ. Yet Christ's death on the cross was Satan's finest hour. He did not know the reason that Christ had to die. Why?
"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory; Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would NOT HAVE CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY." 1 Cor. 2:7,8.
Had Satan realized that the death of Christ would pay our ransom, he would have never conspired to have Christ killed. So the question is, how do we know the blood of Christ paid our ransom in full?
"Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in ONCE into the holy place, having obtained ETERNAL REDEMPTION FOR US." Heb. 9:12.
The fact that God the Father raised Jesus Christ from the dead tells us that the ransom was paid in full. If there had been a single sin not paid for at Calvary, God in his justice, could NOT have raised Him. The empty tomb says it all.