Where, O death, is your sting?’ ” (1 Cor. 15:22, 55). So while sin remains, evil has been vanquished because of Christ’s actions in the world. This theory, too, looks to be correct in what it claims, but it has also been criticized for being an incomplete account of atonement. For example, some are concerned that it fails to include the role of a human response of faith. Moreover, the ransom theory says very little about exactly how the human condition is remedied—how is it that our sins have been