"Jesus had to be God to Atone for Sin", Really?
Audio podcast here or here . 1. The claim “Jesus had to be God to atone for sin” is non-biblical, philosophical speculation. The claim is not something argued or presented in the Bible. 2. The Bible declares something completely different. The Bible says that Jesus had to be a man, a human being, not God and not just a human nature, to bring about God’s plan of redemption for humanity. God was at work in and through the man Jesus of Nazareth. Who the man Jesus was and is - and what he did - was necessary, sufficient and acceptable to God. This article/podcast focuses on #1 above, showing some of the dead-end inconsistencies and contradictions that the non-biblical speculation “Jesus had to be God to atone for sin” leads to. For comments about what the Bible does in fact declare, see “ Jesus had to be a Mere Man, the Bible Tells Me So ”. What deity of Christ folks are claiming with the “Jesus had to be God” claim is a kind of penal substitution theory of atonem