more familiar terms, we recognize that God is just and that human sin must be punished. After all, as the apostle Paul teaches, “the wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23). The only way for sinners to be redeemed from this penalty of eternal death is for a perfect sacrifice to be offered, and Jesus as the God-man is this perfect and all-sufficient sacrifice for sin on our behalf as he took upon himself the penalty that we deserve. Thus Christians have rightly sensed that Jesus Christ must be exactly