The Curse of Galatians 3:10-14 and Penal Substitution

JonC · Mar 17, 2018

Martin Marprelate said: ↑

Your last sentence is right up there with the pope being Catholic and what bears do in the woods. The point is
1. God is a righteous Judge.
2. God is angry with the wicked every day (NKJV).
3. There is none righteous, no, not one.
Therefore God is right to be angry with the wicked every day, and that is why there is a curse upon sinful man. that is all the use I make of Psalm 7:11.

The only use of this passage that I made in my post was verse 6: 'But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.' It may be helpful to reprise what I actually wrote:

Christ became a curse for us (Galatians 3:13) thereby redeeming us from the curse of God's law. The curse is the outworking of God's wrath or righteous anger against sin and sinners (Psalm 7:11). Christ was made sin for us (2 Cor. 5:21), had all our sins laid upon Him (Isaiah 53:6) and thereby endured God's wrath, not against Him as Christ, but as Him made sin for us (Romans 1:18; 3:25-26).

God's way of salvation is to make the sinless Christ to be sin for us. How does that happen? By God placing all the sins of His elect upon Him. Therefore God's wrath and His curse against sin and sinners are no longer directed towards us, but towards Christ, and He bears them (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24).

This is perhaps your most egregious error.
1. The wrath of God is revealed against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men i.e. sin.
2. Christ is made sin for us.
Therefore the wrath of God is revealed against Christ on the cross and we become the righteousness of God in Him. Simples!

I think you'll find it does. God is 'by no means clearing the guilty.' If God is to be just and the justifier of the one who believes in Jesus, someone must pay the penalty and bear the curse which is due to guilty sinners who believe.. that someone is Christ.

The ECFs rejected your faulty theory of P.S. because it said nothing about Christ being made a curse for us. Justin Martyr, Eusebius and Hilary of Poitiers all based their support for the Doctrine of Penal Substitution, which is as I described it in the O.P., on Christ being made a curse for us.
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I know what the fox says, but what do bears do in the woods?

Martin Marprelate · Mar 17, 2018

JonC said: ↑

I know what the fox says, but what do bears do in the woods?
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I think I'll leave you to wonder. I thought it was an American expression since there are no bears in Britain, but perhaps it's Canadian.

JonC · Mar 17, 2018

Martin Marprelate said: ↑

I think I'll leave you to wonder. I thought it was an American expression since there are no bears in Britain, but perhaps it's Canadian.
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Ours are smarter than the av-er-age bears. They eat pic-a-nic baskets in the woods.

Eating pic-a-nic baskets.

That's my final answer.

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