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Category: Penal Substitution

  • Response to Bryan Cross on Penal Substitution

    Bryan Cross has provided a significant number of posts in a comment box at the GreenBaggins blog, suggesting that somehow the doctrine of penal substitution is inconsistent with orthodox Trinitarian theology and/or orthodox Christology. Bryan’s argument was provided a variety of different ways with many different tangents, but Bryan’s premises can be reduced to this:…

  • The Necessity of the Atonement

    One thing that differentiates genuine Christianity from some counterfeits, such as Islam, is that the Living and True God is too holy to simply ignore sin. Instead, God’s holiness and justice demand satisfaction for sin. There are a number of ways that this can be seen in the Scriptures, both of the Old and the…

  • The Law Justified Christ

    Someone going by “Todd” (profile not available) wrote: Your first counterargument is that “Christ fulfilled the law. The law didn’t condemn Christ, it justified Him.” I’m going to ignore the bizarre phrasing that the Law justified Christ, which hints at all sorts of problems. But more to the point, you seem to completely miss who…

  • Sola Scriptura in Cyril of Alexandria’s "Against Those Who are Unwilling to Confess that the Holy Virgin is Theotokos"

    The Orthodox Research Institute has published an English translation of Cyril of Alexandria’s work, “Against Those Who are Unwilling to Confess that the Holy Virgin is Theotokos.” It’s not a huge tome, weighing in at about 50 pages of English text. Nevertheless, I think it serves to illustrate the Sola Scriptura approach of Cyril. Most…

  • Scriptural Doctrine of the Atonement Defended – against John Martin

    John Martin has also responded to another of my previous posts (link to post, his comments are in the comment box there). I had written: “The Christian position is that Christ is our substitute.” JM responded: “If Christ is our substitute and we are impute a legal righteousness, even though the Father knows we are…

  • The Apology of Claudius of Turin and His Commentary on Galatians

    I have previously remarked how the icon-favoring council of 787 overthrew the precedent of the similarly sized council of 754, which condemned as idolatry the worshiping of God by images. Some folks have tried to suggest that the iconoclastic controversy was exclusively an Eastern issue. Some have even gone so far as to try to…

  • Athanasius to Marcellinus: How Sufficient are the Psalms?

    Athanasius wrote a letter to Marcellinus regarding the Psalms (full text). Athanasius wouldn’t have fit into post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism very well for a lot of reasons, but one reason is his comment in this letter: “the knowledge of God is not with [the heathen and the heretics] at all, but only in the Church.”…