5/7/2023 0 Comments Another gospel alisa![]() ![]() ![]() This was exciting to me because progressive Christians love to say that the idea of Jesus dying for my sins or bearing my punishment is totally unbiblical. In fact, there is even payment language in that chapter, where it says that his righteousness will essentially be put into our account. In that prophecy, Isaiah reveals that “it was the will of the Lord to crush him,” so that he could bear our sins and transgressions. ![]() When I first began to study Isaiah 53 and to see it as an amazing prophecy about the messiah who would come as a suffering servant, it totally came alive for me. In his bestselling book The Universal Christ, progressive theologian Richard Rohr claims that the doctrine of original sin was invented by Augustine and that the Bible actually teaches the “inherent goodness of human nature.” So what are the implications of this view on the way progressive Christians think about salvation in general and the atonement in particular? Shane Rosenthal discusses these questions and more as he continues his conversation with Alisa Childers, author of Another Gospel: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity. ![]()
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