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Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution is unavailable, but you can change that!

The belief that Jesus died for us, suffering the wrath of his own Father in our place, has been the wellspring of hope for countless Christians through the ages. However, with an increasing number of theologians, church leaders, and even popular Christian books and magazines questioning this doctrine, which naysayers have described as a form of “cosmic child abuse,” a fresh articulation and...

This takes us to another question: On what basis are we to believe anything about God? Why should we believe God is good, or loving, or holy, or our Creator? The simple answer is that he has told us. It is worth reminding ourselves of this. It is not our instincts or our feelings or our most sophisticated thoughts that tell us the truth about God. Rather, as Hilary of Poitiers insisted in the fourth century, God is the best witness concerning himself.2 It might be asked why we should trust God’s
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