How to Kill Sin Now
Lots of people struggle with sin. They long to break free but don't know how. They hear the promise of scripture that there's freedom in...
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Matt O'Reilly
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Penal Substitution as Trinitarian Love: A Response to Frederick W. Schmidt
Rublev’s famous icon depicts the other-oriented love of the God who is triune. Is God a violent monster? If you think Jesus embraced the...
Matt O'Reilly
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Eternally secure; provided that
“Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men...
Matt O'Reilly
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Written Before the Foundation of the World? Translation Matters
The ESV renders Revelation 13:8b like this: “everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of...
Matt O'Reilly
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Substitution not Abandonment: A Response to Dan Wallace
Dan Wallace thinks so as well, if not more so, and recently wrote a response to Hsu criticizing him for going soft on a penal...
Matt O'Reilly
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A Narrative Theology of Penal Substitution
“For an instant, Barabbas seemed to comprehend that this innocent man would be nailed to the cross in his place. Barabbas would be the...
Matt O'Reilly
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Theory or History? The Difference is Important
It’s one thing for this to be the language of professional academic guilds, but I hope this language doesn’t work it’s way into the...
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Penal Substitution: Theological Innovation or Ancient Doctrine?
Is the penal substitutionary understanding of the atonement a novel idea held mainly by the Reformers and their theological offspring?...
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