To put it bluntly and
plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a
condemned sinner. If my sins and my
guilt are not transferred to Him, if he did not take them upon Himself, then
surely they remain with me. If He did
not deal with my sins, I must face their consequences. If my penalty was not borne by Him, it still
hangs over me. There is no other
possibility.
--Leon Morris, The
Cross on the NT
It is an outstanding
merit of the substitutionary view, then, that it does not gloss over the
past. It recognizes it for the serious
and significant thing that it is. But it
affirms that Christ has taken care of our past as He has taken care of every
aspect of our need. He has paid the
penalty. He has wiped out the sin.
-- Leon Morris, The Cross on the NT
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