Christ's cross did not arrive at Calvary without preparation. Before Christ was crucified outside Jerusalem, God was training his people to understand his eternal plan for what would happen on that Friday afternoon. God prepared his people through images of blood, through priests, through altars, through the repeated and irreversible death of innocent animals in … Continue reading The Sacrifice That Answers the Problem: How The Garden Sacrifice, Leviticus, and Isaiah 53 Prepare Us For the Cross
Month: May 2026
The Covenantal Framework of Atonement
Why Representative Headship Is the Key to Understanding the Cross Many modern misunderstandings of penal substitutionary atonement arise from a failure to grasp the Bible’s covenantal and representative logic. Contemporary Western individualism often assumes that persons exist as isolated moral units whose actions belong to themselves alone. Yet Scripture regularly presents humanity in corporate and … Continue reading The Covenantal Framework of Atonement
What is Atonement?
What is the atonement? What is penal substitutionary atonement?
Donnie's Dogmatics 