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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...

Nadab and Abihu, God’s wrath is seen plainly.26 By showing us what happens in such cases, Leviticus reveals the problem is being successfully dealt with the rest of the time.27 Consider the analogy of our drinking water. Most of the time it is perfectly safe to drink, but it would be wrong to infer from this that dirty water could never be a problem. On the contrary, our tap water is drinkable only because the purification systems are working properly. If pranksters were to break into the treatment
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