In the last few weeks there's been a flurry of on-line activity over John Mark Comer's comments on Instagram concerning Andrew Remington Rillera's book "Lamb of the Free", writes Dr Dan Strange, Director of the Crosslands Forum.
Comer posted: "One of the most important academic books I've read in years. Next I'll read rebuttals, but this seems to be the final Biblical / exegetical knock out blow to PSA [Penal Substitutionary Atonement]."
In 2005, and in the context of similar denials, I gave the annual public lecture for The Evangelical Library which was on the anniversary of a number of classic defences of PSA: James Denney's The Death of Christ (1905); Leon Morris' The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross (1955); Jim Packer's Tyndale Lecture "What did the Cross Achieve" (1975), and John Stott's The Cross of Christ (1986).
Trust and obey like Joshua
Back in the sultry, sunny days of the summer just gone, I spoke at an event that is an annual …