Substitutionary atonement is sometimes caricatured as an angry father abusing his own son. The son placates the father and brings him around to an attitude he doesn’t want to have…
Carl Trueman explores the implications of Christ’s presence at the right hand of the Father and demonstrates the unity and harmony of the Trinity in all aspects of salvation:
…there is always a temptation to see the Father-Son relationship in salvation in an adversarial fashion, as if the Son somehow has to persuade or cajole the Father to be gracious to his people. Most often theologians make this criticism with reference to the penal substitutionary view of the atonement where an angry Father is, perhaps against his own better judgment, appeased by the work of the Son; but it is easy to see how the same kind of criticism could be extended into heaven itself, as the Son makes intercession there for his people. Does he sit there are try, hope against hope, to get an angry Father to calm down and look with grace and mercy on a poor and sinful people?
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