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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...

the subject, it means ‘to forgive sin’ (e.g. Num. 14:18). Where a sinful person is the subject, it usually means that he bears his own guilt (e.g. Lev. 7:18). Leviticus 16:22 is a rather different case, for an animal is the subject of the verb, and the judicial fate of the Israelites is transferred to the animal in such a way that they do not bear it themselves. The natural reading in this case is that the animal bears the sin and guilt of the people in their place and they are thereby released from
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