N.T. Wright on Atonement Theories

This is a clip from a lecture at Wheaton College. Full video below:

[drummera]

It amazes me how our western cultures find it so hard to comprehend the sacrifce of Jesus as an act of love, forguiveness, justice (not retributive justice), mercy, restoration and reconciliation rather than enforcing wrath, punishment, payment, death, penatly and debt. Our sense of justice based on the roman law has distorted the meaning of God's work on the cross through Jesus.

Jesus is fulfilling all the jewish tradition had spoken about the Lord's day in which God would begin a new creation (in Luke 4 Jesus acomplhishes Isaiah 61).

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

How can we distort and turn the good news of God's favor into some bloody killing sacrifice required to satisty his wrath. We lost something along the way. We have gone too far away from the concept of justice demonstrated through the hebrew tradition.

[dr.k.t.varughese]

If you claim to have the power of tongues or holyspirit, can you feed 5000 or more with 5 loaves and two fishes like Jesus did?

[raeveth]

3:48 incorrect. Jesus is the appropriate saviour because He’s perfect and was sent by the Father (Jesus willingly obeying). He fulfilled all criteria and prophecy. Furthermore, there was a progressive revelation about Him because had the powers fully known God’s plan, they never would have crucified Jesus

[ianhall]

Christianity has colossal problems in claiming that "Jesus is alive" " He lives". If that is so, Jesus is guilty of allowing two thousand years of religious disputes, often ending in wars both within Christianity and between Christianity and other religions, without making any attempt to peaceably resolve these disputes.

[ianhall]

One man dies on a cross. Not before hundreds of innocents babies had to be slaughtered by Herod before Jesus was even born, in order to "fulfil prophesies of Scripture".