A woman emailed me with questions about a recent homily. Inquisitive and reflective, she wrote:
Every single paragraph of today’s piece hit the right note for me, but these two sentences hurt: “What God would not ultimately ask of us, God freely gives. The Father sacrifices his son Jesus, his only son, the one whom he loves.”
I would love to see you address the awful atonement issue. Jesus did not die to appease an angry God, nor, through his torture and terrifying death, to atone for sin, unless the Father is just that bloodthirsty?
My correspondent rightly rejects the notion of God the Father angrily demanding the death of God the Son.
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