justice, while providing merciful redemption for sinful man. Thus, Christ becomes man to teach us the good news of God’s love, and to suffer for man the punishment that God’s justice legally (in a divine sense) demands. By virtue of His death and Resurrection, a human being can, by faith, have his personal debt to God cancelled. This transaction allows God to graciously and justly accept that individual into His Kingdom. To my great surprise, I discovered that the Apostles and the early Church did