Roger Olson - Arminian Order of Salvation

Roger Olson may be the most able articulator and defender of the Arminian viewpoint out there.   I thought this was well done.

Here's the heart of how salvation works logically (not chronologically) from an Arminian perspective.

Penal Substitution and the Early Fathers

There has been a Lot of talk about the matter of "Penal Substitution" in recent years.   Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA) is the view that the death of Christ on the cross paid a penalty of guilt on behalf of others – hence “penal” and “substitution”.  The gist of the objection to PSA is that it allegedly makes God look like some sort of monster, since the penalty is paid to God and the “wrath of God” is satisfied, a point sometimes expressed forcefully in revivalist settings and/or among the neo-Calvinists.  Steve Chalke and others have used the term "cosmic child abuse", since God pouring out wrath on his own Son seems offensive to modern sensibilities. 

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