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Originally Posted by CarolinaCalvinist  Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie Rutherford held a number of things that were unbiblical - such as denying the absolute necessity of the atonement[...] | What?? |
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Chris can probably highlight some materials on the PB to substantiate this. However, if you look at John Owen's
A Dissertation on Divine Justice, in volume 10 of his works, he takes issue with Rutherford and William Twisse for teaching that God
could (not
did) have devised some other means for the redemption of sinners other than the death of Christ. This is nonsense, because how could God's justice be satisfied apart from Christ's atoning work? The answer, as Owen demonstrates, is that it could not; and so due, to the death of Christ, God saves sinners in a manner consistent with His justice. Hence Paul could say that God is "just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus" (Rom. 3:26).