A substitutionary atonement is a crank. The cosmic disciplinarian God of Sunday School is a lie. The dualism of an angry hateful God who will punish us eternally for our supposed sin, while being at the same time a God of love, is a description of God that is beyond redemption. Substituting the death of Jesus as a sacrifice to the angry Gods is a pagan belief system that has been around as long as we humans have walked this planet. When are we to grow up? The substitutionary Jesus factor is a slander against God.
Why, then, Jesus? To exhibit to all humanity, the heart of the real God, the God above our Gods.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
