Christ, died for our sins. The Father did not die for our sins. The Holy Spirit did not die for our sins. It was the Father who gave the Son to die for our sins. And it was the Father who put on the Son the penalty that we deserved for our sins. Erickson is aware that in attributing an action of any person of the Trinity to “the entire Godhead,” so that “those passages that speak of the Father predestining, sending, commanding, and so on should not be taken as applying to the Father alone but to
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