‘By “putting forward” the Son, as the apostle Paul wrote, isn’t the Father abusing the Son? Doesn’t substitution constitute another wrongdoing, this time against the innocent Christ?… The Father would be abusing the Son and committing divine wrongdoing – rather than taking away human wrongdoing – if Christ were a third party, beyond God who was wronged and humanity who wronged God. But he isn’t. He stands firmly on the divine side of the forgiving God, not between the forgiving God and forgiven humanity. …
‘No, there are not two Gods. The God who is One beyond numbering and yet mysteriously Three reconciled us by shouldering our sin in the person of Christ who is one of the Three. That’s the mystery of human redemption made possible by the mystery of God’s Trinity: The One who was offended bears the burden of the offense.’
- Miroslav Volf
‘The love of the Father and the Son, with the Holy Spirit, to lost sinners is shared, unanimous love. The tritheistic fantasy of a loving Son placating an unloving Father and commandeering an apathetic Holy Spirit in order to save us is a distressing nonsense.’
- J.I. Packer
That’s right. Don’t think you’re the only one who can pull out meaty quotes to celebrate the liturgical calendar. There’s more than one Reformed quasi-Catholic in this family.
Artificiality says : I absolutely agree with this !
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Unaccented.