Here is an example of a lying wolf dressed in the clothing of a lamb who is tickling the ears of his unwitting audience...
In Christ you are forgiven - YouTube
His entire foundation is premised on the PENAL SUBSTITUTION LIE which teaches that Jesus swaps track records with you. By clear implication you can go out and murder someone, under this doctrine, and you would be ALREADY FORGIVEN. Yet alone lie, cheat, steal or be a sports idolator etc. What kind of nonsense is this? Why is it that so many believe it? Jesus NEVER taught ANY SUCH THING ANYWHERE!!!
In Christ you are forgiven - YouTube
His entire foundation is premised on the PENAL SUBSTITUTION LIE which teaches that Jesus swaps track records with you. By clear implication you can go out and murder someone, under this doctrine, and you would be ALREADY FORGIVEN. Yet alone lie, cheat, steal or be a sports idolator etc. What kind of nonsense is this? Why is it that so many believe it? Jesus NEVER taught ANY SUCH THING ANYWHERE!!!
Penal substitution is our justification.
Being conformed into the image of His son is sanctification throughout our life.
Then glorification
Your heartburn comes from not understanding the program, or the meanings of the doctrine.
they conclude from their misunderstanding that penal atonement is contra-Biblical.
So they seek to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
However, it is not penal atonement that is contra-Biblical, but their misunderstanding of its meaning.
The meaning of all atonment is found in the OT sacrificial regulations of Leviticus.
And the particular sacrifice which shows the meaning of Christ's atonement is the sin offering of Lev 4.
So following are brief comments on relevant verses from (chapters) Lev 4, 5, 6, and Nu 15, 28 on the sin offering.
It is there that we learn sacrificial atonement is penal.
The whole chapter is presented so that the context may be examined.
LEV 4 - Sin Offering
- mandatory for specific unintentional sin, as well as for
- confession of sin, forgiveness of sin and cleansing from defilement of sin
- priest and community offering differed from leader and member (most holy) offering
- blood applied to different altars; sacrifices consumed differently
- most holy, whoever touches will become holy (6:17-18) - see 2:3
- animal must be without defect (no stunted, deformed or blind, injured, maimed, diseased, or cut), because offering is mandatory (22:22-24)
v. 3 - The sin of the priest brought guilt on the people
- their spiritual well-being depended on the faithfulness of their High Priest
- the spiritual well-being of those who believe in Jesus Christ depends on the faithfulness of their High Priest, Jesus Christ (Heb 4:14--5:10)
vv. 6, 16-17 - blood of the sin offering for priests or community taken into the Holy Place and sprinkled seven times before the shielding curtain
- complete and perfect atonement of the blood of Christ
- Christ's blood was taken into the Most Holy Place when he ascended into heaven (Heb 9:11-12)
- Holy Spirit is called the finger of God (Lk 11:2, see parallel Mt 12:28), who applies the blood of Christ to our sin through faith
- incense burning on altar can represent prayer ascending to God (Rev 5:8, 8:3-4)
- our prayer must be cleansed by the blood of Christ,
because even the prayer and praises of a sinful people (1Jn 1:8-10) are defiled (Ex 28:38; Is 64:6)
- BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE:
- The only basis for prayer is the shed blood of Christ.
- Christ was sacrificed on the altar of the cross, where his blood was poured out at its base (Jn 19:34, 37)
- our inner part, the heart, given to God
- fire consumed the sacrifice
- outside the camp where their sin had been put away, never to rise up in judgment against them
- Christ was crucified outside Jerusalem (Heb 13:10-11)
- The sacrifices only covered sin (Ro 4:7; Ps 85:2), they did not remit (take away) sin (Heb 10:4, 11), so
- because the blood of the true sacrifice (Christ) was not yet taken into the true (heavenly) sanctuary (Heb 9:12, 10:24) to purchase forgiveness (remittance) of sin (i.e., salvation), the sinner could not yet participate (1Co 10:16), through eating of the sacrifice, in the benefits of remission (but only the benefits of covering)
- BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE:
- The OT priest could not eat the flesh of the altar if the blood was taken into the Holy Place,
but the NT priest (believer - 1Pe 2:5) can eat the flesh of the altar (Lord's Supper) because the blood (of Christ) has been taken into the Most Holy Place (heaven).
- to remove guilt, and poured out at base of altar
- if they did not forsake their sin, the blood of the sin offering applied to the horns of the brazen altar
remained as a witness against them (Jer 17:1)
- received sin of people into themselves (fed on them) - 10:17
- Christ our priest and sin-bearer received our sin (2Co 5:21; 1Pe 2:24)
- the atoning work of Chrst is a delight to the Lord
- NT parallel - Heb 10:29: the blood of Christ must not be treated as an unholy thing
- the most holy Christ, our sin sacrifice, was defiled by our sin which he bore (1Pe 2:24)
- failed to speak up when he hears a public charge to testify
- touched anything ceremonially unclean
- touched human uncleanness
- thoughtlessly took an oath (5:1-5)
- BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE:
- Ignorance does not excuse from responsibility and guilt of sin (Lev 5:17, 4:13-14).
- the sinner is held responsible, he must bear his own guilt, because there is no sacrifice to bear it for him, he dies in his guilt, with his sin unforgiven (Lev 19:8, 20:17, 24:15-16, 7:18, 20, 25, 17:16)
- points to sin of unbelief/rebellion (Heb 10:26-27; Jn 3:18)
- note the exacting justice of God (Mt 5:25-26, 18:32-35)
- BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE:
- How do we satisfy the exacting justice of God? . .Jesus has done it for those who believe in him (Jn 3:18).
- our sin sacrifice, Jesus Christ, was without defect, pure, perfect, sinless (Jn 8:46; 2Co 5:21; Heb 4:15, 7:26; 1Pe 2:22)
- BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE: Our confession of sin should be specific, to show
- realization of our sin
- awareness of God's holiness
- willingness to turn from (repent of) the sin
- God's response to sin is punitive (Lk 12:47-48; Ro 2:8)
- principle of penal atonement
- must not be pleasing to the taste (oil) or smell (incense), as sin is not pleasing to God
- "Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin." (Heb 9:22)
- the blood sacrifice was the base (basis) of atonement in the grain sin offering
The sin offering shows us something about:
1. nature of Christ - both holy and defiled, as the sin sacrifice, and the altar (chp 1)
2. work of Christ
- as priest, would offer himself as a substitutionary sin sacrifice to pay the penalty for sin - as the priest offered the substitutionary sin sacrifice to pay the penalty for sin
- outside Jerusalem - as the sin sacrifice was burned outside Jerusalem
- where his blood would be poured out at the foot of the cross - as the blood was poured out at the base of the brazen altar
- making complete atonement - as the blood sprinkled seven times before the shielding curtain to make atonement
- prayer must be cleansed by the blood of Christ to be acceptable to God - as the gold altar of incense (prayer ascending to God) had to be cleansed by the blood
- the blood of Christ removes the guilt of the believer, but judges the guilt of the unbeliever - as the blood applied to the horns of the brazen altar removed the guilt of the repentant, but increased the guilt of the unrepentant
So penal atonement is Biblical.
What is not Biblical is that it clearly implies a licencse to sin.
God never provides a license to sin.
What is contra-Biblical is the ridiculous notion that God's provision of substitutionary penal atonement in the sacrifice of his Son (Ro 3:25) is a license to sin.