Why do you need forgiveness? Beware of all the bad answers, warns John Piper. https://t.co/pTvKipIAIV
— Desiring God (@desiringGod) May 18, 2016
The link leads to an essay, where you find this:
So, as God looks down and sees hearts that prefer other things to him, he doesn’t just get angry, he says: I am going to fix that. And the first thing I am going to do is put my Son as perfectly righteous, who never came within one width of exchanging my glory for anything else, I am going to put my Son out there to take their place and bear that anger that I feel so strongly towards their idolatry. And I put him in that place, and I am going to pour out my wrath on him.
Now, step down one post and read Bertrand Russell’s remarks on Christian ethics.