Sergio DeSoto
Sergio DeSoto The Counterintuitive Podcast
Why Penal Substitution Does Not Fit the Text
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Why Penal Substitution Does Not Fit the Text

The framework behind the altar call is medieval, not biblical.

Where did the idea come from that God had to punish someone before He could forgive? Part two of the Berean study follows that framework back to an eleventh-century archbishop — not the Hebrew text — and walks through five places the text simply doesn’t support it. Check every claim against your own Bible as you go.

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