Victorious Substitution - A Theory of the Atonement (Paperback)

The New Testament presents the suffering and death of Jesus as a soteriological necessity. Its necessity is affirmed by Jesus himself with emphasis before his death, "The Son of Man," he said, "must suffer many things, and be rejected by the Elders and the Chief Priests, and Scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again" (Mk. 8:31). And again afterwards: "Behooved it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?" (Lk. 24:26). The question is wherein that necessity lay; why did he have to suffer and die in order that the world might be reconciled to God.