JW Wallace introduced a meme that defeats his entire project of convincing you the Bible is true. The meme was initially introduced to explain why we cannot accept the uncanonized Gospels. Here it is simply repurposed and applied to JW Wallace’s arguments for the canonized Gospels. #jwarnerwallace
#445 | J Warner Wallace oddly claims that a judge giving a light sentence reflects penal substitutionary atonement, calling the actual serving of a criminal’s sentence “barbarism”, concluding “but [barbarism] isn’t the Christian story anyway”. How not? Please untangle this claim.
#444 | J. Warner Wallace claims the justice of penal substitutionary atonement is evidenced when judges jeopardize their reputations by giving criminals light sentences, “taking the brunt of it”. Is this painless brunt remotely close to the brunt of a crucifixion? And where is the atonement? (View the context)