This is the gospelSince there are different views is all the more reason we should study the scriptures on this. Personally, I believe it is obvious Jesus suffered God’s wrath in our place. I believe scripture teaches it throughout. And there are times when these debates really cloud up some very obvious points, and make it difficult to reason out such simple things.
Sometimes we reach for the stars so to speak. It’s as if we have to figure out the Trinity or the HU in order to prove PSA one way or another.
And that’s where we start to reason out the simple truth in the word in the mysteries, sadly. As there will always be mysteries with the Almighty.
There is not a man alive that can understand and explain the Trinity or the HU, though we could have a fair understanding.
Yet, from those doctrines, we try to reason out the PSA.
I believe the gospel is simple, so simple that a young child can understand it. He or she does not have to be dragged through the doctrine of the Trinity or the HU to understand and believe what Christ went through and had to endure for our salvation. It they had to be brought through those doctrines before they could understand “the simple gospel” they would be just as, if not more confused as many of us adults are that take that route before they can reason out the gospel.
1 Corinthians 15:1-11 (KJV)
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
PSA is not a part of it