{"id":3515,"date":"2013-12-21T23:51:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T03:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2013-12-21T23:56:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T03:56:56","slug":"for-our-sins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3515","title":{"rendered":"For Our Sins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people begin rethinking atonement, salvation, and the eucharist along these lines, they often wonder, &#8220;What then does it mean to say that Jesus died for our sins?&#8221;  They assume the <em>for<\/em> in that statement means &#8220;as a penal substitutionary sacrifice for.&#8221;  It is far more natural, I think, to interpret the <em>for<\/em> more simply.  Consider, for example, these two sentences:  &#8220;I took medicine for my disease,&#8221; and &#8220;I got a ticket for speeding.&#8221;  In the former sentence, the word <em>for<\/em> does not mean &#8220;as a sacrifice to appease my disease.&#8221;  <em>For<\/em> means &#8220;to help cure my disease.&#8221;  So we understand that Jesus&#8217; death intervenes in human history to have a curative impact on our hostility and violence, to turn us toward the ways of peace.  And in the latter sentence, <em>for<\/em> doesn&#8217;t mean &#8220;to pay for.&#8221;  It means &#8220;because of.&#8221;  Because I was speeding, I got a ticket, and similarly, because we are hostile and violent, Christ died.  God didn&#8217;t torture and kill Christ; <em>we<\/em> did.  And that tells us something essential about both God and ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brian D. McLaren, <em>Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?<\/em>, p. 212<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people begin rethinking atonement, salvation, and the eucharist along these lines, they often wonder, &#8220;What then does it mean to say that Jesus died for our sins?&#8221; They assume the for in that statement means &#8220;as a penal substitutionary sacrifice for.&#8221; It is far more natural, I think, to interpret the for more simply. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}