The doctrine of substitution is like many doctrines, that rely primarily upon popularity and antiquity of belief RATHER than upon scripture as the proof of orthodoxy.
It is not true that Jesus died in your place. He did not substitute for you.
He died in His place!
If He substituted for anything it was a substitute for the innocent animals that were sin-sacrifices.
A big problem with the doctrine of substitution is that it makes sinful man interchangeable with Jesus. Have you ever heard someone say, "Jesus was sinless, so He was the only one that could die in my place." What a haughty boast! Are you so sinless that only Jesus qualifies to be interchangeable with you? Would you say that Einstein is so smart that only he could take the physics exam in your place?
The other big problem is that if it was our place to die, then that posits mankind with real life, because only the alive can be put to death.
Another big problem is that the dynamic-interchange is corrupted in the doctrine of substitution. Where innocent life was offered to correct guilt, you replace that to assume that guilty life could be offered (us) but instead of us, Jesus died. In reality it isn't guilty life that could be offered at all. We cannot atone for our own sins, because we are not innocent. It isn't our place to begin with, it is the Lord's place, and before He came on the scene WE were NOT considered interchangeable, but an innocent life of an animal without blemish died in that place.
Another big problem with substitutionary atonement theology is that Jesus was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, so it could only be His place way before Adam and Eve were even around much less given the chance to sin.
While it is very true and biblical that Jesus died FOR us ... it cannot be that Jesus died in my place. He did not substitute for me. We are not interchangeable. It was His place where He died, and it never was our place. We could not die, because we were already dead.
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