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What Did the Cross Achieve: The Logic of Penal Substitution

What Did the Cross Achieve: The Logic of Penal Substitution

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  • J. I. Packer

The biblical way of thinking about the atonement is to think of it as penal substitution. In arguing this point this article points to the nature of knowledge required to comprehend this. This kind of knowledge is faith knowledge that rests on God's Word. It explains the idea of substitution and how it relates to Christ death being penal.

Source: The Highway. 22 pages.

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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners, and the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous. Blaise Pascal
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