Excerpts from;
An Essay on Jesus and Substitution
If it was God’s will that the innocent Jesus should be punished for guilty man’s sins instead of man, why does man yet remain under condemnation after Jesus died? If this transaction was on condition of man’s repentance, then it should not have been before man repented, and it would also mean that those who never repented before the death of Christ, were not included in this substitutionary benefit of Jesus’ death; this plainly means that Jesus did not die for all men. This clearly shows the falsehood of this teaching. It was the will of God that innocent Jesus should be
punished with the punishment man had to face for this guilt of sins, but this was to give man a
display of the horribleness of sin so that the right penitent condition would be created in man’s mind to receive divine forgiveness.
Jesus’ punishment was not intended to replace the sinner’s punishment, but to cause the sinner to escape his own punishment by the merciful forgiveness of God, once the once the conditions were met.
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