poll: what Christian denomination are you?

[civplayah]

Raised Unitarian Universalist. Doesn't reflect my beliefs, though.

 

[_random_]

What is less legalistic about Orthodoxy?

For starters, you'd be unlikely to find a blog post quoting this passage from most Catholic or Protestant ministers.

And how can you possibly deny penal substitution Biblically? (Unless you mean something else by Penal Substitution than what I think it means.)

The language of satisfaction is used in the Scriptures, but to think of it exclusively oversimplifies the mystery of our atonement. If we reduce the death of Christ to a convoluted anger management exercise, then the remarkable love of God that underlies our redemption is under-minded.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Penal substitution dictates that Christ is in Hell, do you think Christ is in Hell?

No... I didn't think anyone thought that...

Satisfaction theory of atonement vs. Penal substitution

Not sure what you mean. I was taught that Jesus was so perfect he could pay an infinite penalty in a finite period of time.

Raised Unitarian Universalist. Doesn't reflect my beliefs, though.

I
actually mistook you for CivPlayah!

For starters, you'd be unlikely to find a blog post quoting this passage from most Catholic or Protestant ministers.

What have this do with mercy?

The language of satisfaction is used in the Scriptures, but to think of it exclusively oversimplifies the mystery of our atonement. If we reduce the death of Christ to a convoluted anger management exercise, then the remarkable love of God that underlies our redemption is under-minded.

I don't think anyone makes it an "Anger-management exercise." The point is that God is so just he can't let a sinner into his presence unless the Sin is paid for. I see nothing immoral about this theory.

 

[onedreamer]

other: I am "Pagan" (a Christian denomination).

 

[timtofly]

I don't think anyone makes it an "Anger-management exercise." The point is that God is so just he can't let a sinner into his presence unless the Sin is paid for. I see nothing immoral about this theory.

God had 4000 years to manage His anger. Not that He had any though. Justice is not a demand for equality. Justice is the penalty of an action. If there are two sides to an issue sometimes both are not absolute dogma. It is possible that they are just viewed from different perspectives. Has something to do with human error creeping in.

 

[sophie]

I was baptized Unitarian, although that was more because the Midwestern Branch of my family wouldn't shut up about it. My parents are such great trolls.