To Consider *ALL* the Atonement Theories (#6) - a podcast by Dan Koch

*How exactly* does Christ's death and resurrection make people right with God? Author and journalist Bonnie Kristian walks Dan through 5 of the most popular and historic answers to that question. Many of us (especially Baptist/Calvinist/Reformed Christians) have been told there is only one such Atonement theory -- Penal Substitution -- but that isn't the case. Bonnie and Dan discuss Christus Victor, Satisfaction Theory, Moral Exemplar, Penal Substitution, and Scapegoat Theory.

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Discussion Questions:
- What theory of the atonement is most familiar to you? Which one did your Sunday school teachers tell you?
- Which do you find most appealing and why? Which do you find most convincing and why? (If those aren’t the same, why?)
- How would you explain to someone totally unfamiliar with Christianity how Jesus is dying means that we can be saved?
- Which theory makes the most sense in our current culture?

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