The Cross Under Question
Progressive teachers often reject the teaching that Christ bore the penalty for our sins, calling it cosmic child abuse or a medieval invention, but Scripture shows a willing Son who gave Himself, and a God who is both just and the justifier.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
State the main progressive objections to penal substitution fairly and in their own words
Grant what those objections see rightly, including the misuse of the cross against victims of abuse
Answer the charge of cosmic child abuse from John 10:18 and the unity of the Father and the Son
Show from Isaiah 53 and Romans 3:25-26 that substitution is older than Anselm
Explain what is lost if Christ did not die in our place