Indeed, does not Exodus itself say, “Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty” (Exod. 23:7)? Some have responded at this point that the “legal fiction” objection presupposes a highly individualistic and atomistic understanding of human identity, a view of identity that other parts of Scripture might challenge or at least qualify.21 Or again, substitutionary atonement has been accused of being not only