Recent content by Dirkthelurk

Thank you all for the replies. It did not even occur to me that the cross may not have been a matter of penal substitutionary atonement but something else. I will need to pray and study this more.

Thank you for the wecome. The reason I'm posting on here is because I am trying to get a deeper understanding of salvation beyond the basic Sunday school textbook answers. I fear the answers to many of my questions are "it's a mystery" or "no one knows the full extent of the mind of God"...

Does scripture give any indication as to why Christ's physical execution on the cross was seen as a satisfactory substitution for an eternity in hell for all humanity? Even from the sinless and perfect Christ, physical death doesn't seem, to me at least, match up with the severity of eternal...