Christians often say, “Jesus paid the penalty for my sin”.

But we will be hard pressed to find that declaration in the Bible. Is such a declaration

In this episode Kevin George, author of Atonement and Reconciliation: A Search for the Original Meaning, Contrasted with Penal Substitutionary Atonement, explains

https://www.amazon.com/Atonement-Reconciliation-contrasted-Substitutionary-Atonement/dp/B0CHDKFWCC

George explains how the focus of atonement is a restored relationship between God and humans based on a covenant made by God through Jesus, not on a legal substitutionary payment. The covenant is a blood covenant (proving loyalty to death) for the release of sins, not a “blood payment”.

If salvation is a gift of God, why did Jesus or anyone else have to pay for it? 

Did God clear the guilty by accepting a payment from someone else? Is that a bribe?

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