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SALVATION BY THE MERCY OF GOD, AND NOT BY PENALTY SATISFACTION (Rom.3:5-7)

Salvation in it's entirety is by the mercy of God, so the aspect of salvation which deals with penalty due to past sins committed (this is forgiveness in the investigative judgement or the aspect of salvation which occurs in the investigative judgement) is not accomplished by someone other than ourself (a penal substitute) being punished or paying the penalty in place of us. God forgives the past sins by His mercy or forbearance (See Rom.3:25 below) and as such the penalty is removed, if someone else must take the penalty for sins instead of us, for us not to receive penalty, then it is not forgiveness, neither is it mercy. So that God would not really be merciful after all.
Rom.3:25
--Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare (Greek - the enshowing of) his righteousness for the remission (Greek - passing over) of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God-

The mercy of God in extending forgiveness for past sins so that penalty is removed is shown only to those who hearts are converted to love Him, as we are told he shows mercy to thousands of them that love Him and keep His commandments, but visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children of them that hate him - Exodus 20:5,6
Humans are known to have some mercy in forgiving injustices done to them by another human without penalizing them or somebody else, thus it is far beyond the way of our most merciful Savior and God to punish in order to forgive.
The gospel of the bible shows a God that is interested in the sinner turning from sin than in finding someone to punish. He is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Once repentance is met he forgoes the punishing of the sinner by His mercy, and as such does not punish the sinner or anybody else for that matter.
Note: You would not find one sermon preached by the apostles where the listeners were told to believe that Christ died in place of them. What was generally taught is what we would find in Rom.10:9-10 - "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus (to be the Messiah), and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Now consider the following which I obtained from Wikipedia for what it's worth on the history of the penal substitution view or the Christ died in place of us view:
"In scholarly literature it has been generally recognised for some time that the penal substitution theory was not taught in the Early Church.[1][2][3][4][5][8][9][11] The ransom theory of atonement in conjunction with the moral influence view was nearly universally accepted in this early period.[12][13][14] Christian theologians, particularly from the fourth century AD onward, began to hold a variety of other atonement ideas in addition to this view, particularly the Ransom theory of atonement.[ embroiled in controversies on the Trinity and Christology as a result.
...There is general agreement that no writer in the Early Church taught penal substitution as their primary theory of atonement."
So reader do your research and don't think because a doctrine is popular means that it is true. Christ is coming soon and he seeks worshipers that will worship Him in Spirit and in truth .

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