{"id":2809,"date":"2007-04-06T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2007-04-06T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T19:00:00","slug":"penal-substitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"Penal substitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of fuss about Jeffrey John’s comments around at the moment; see Ruth Gledhill’s blog here <\/a>– I’m very disappointed in Ruth, she displays a startling ignorance of Christian theology. As it happens, I preached on the topic today – in a way virtually identical to JJ – and at the end I was complimented on my sermon, which was apparently so unlike JJ’s, as his was barely Christian….<\/p>\n

A few basic points:
– there is no credal necessity for believing in the theory of penal substitution;
– the evidence for it being in Scripture is marginal (not non-existent – but there are much clearer reasons to reject it);
– it can’t be understood without a proper understanding of OT sacrificial ritual – this is where Margaret Barker is so exciting;
– it is wrong to call penal substitution the ‘traditional’ teaching, for it is practically unknown before Calvin (I suspect unknowABLE); and
– the fact that it ties in so strongly with Modern philosophy makes it a good candidate for being a ‘doctrine of men’.
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Lots of fuss about Jeffrey John’s comments around at the moment; see Ruth Gledhill’s blog here – I’m very disappointed in Ruth, she displays a startling ignorance of Christian theology. As it happens, I preached on the topic today – … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tbte","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Jj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}