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| What is happening here? |
The Reformed View:
- God the Father poured out His wrath on Jesus for every sin that you and I have ever committed
- Jesus literally took upon himself our sin
- Therefore, the crucifixion was a just act. Jesus was as guilty as a prostitute, murderer or thief and deserved death in lieu of Him being imputed the guilt for all the sins of the elect.
On the Reformed view, Christ received the wrath of the Father as the sacrificial lamb.
The Catholic View:
- Christ offered himself to the Father as the perfect sacrifice for our sins.
- Jesus literally became the sin sacrifice for us.
- Therefore, the crucifixion was an unjust act. Jesus was not guilty yet he suffered like he was guilty.
On the Catholic view, Christ "shut off the spigot" of God's wrath -- so to speak -- because he was the perfect sacrificial lamb. In other words, His sacrifice was sufficient for all of our sins -- past and present -- because it was a perfect sacrifice.
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God's wrath is appeased, but not because the torture of Christ was somehow the quantitative sum of all of the torture deserved by you and I. No. God's wrath was appeased because in Christ -- our Paschal Victim -- God received the perfect sacrifice that could atone for our sins. That perfect sacrifice was Himself.
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| And even death cannot hold Love in the grave |
