atonement for Christ for human forgiveness” (Forsyth, Atonement in Modern Religious Thought, p. 84). Christ’s death does not mean a placation of God, for God was already desirous of forgiving sin, but because He loved holiness at least as much as He loved man, it was necessary for him to maintain His own moral nature and the moral order of the universe while forgiving man. It is necessary to maintain, then, that the atonement is both penal and substitutionary, in spite of the fact that these terms