Passages:
Leviticus 4:27–31
Psalm 49:5–12
Matthew 27:15–26
Romans 8:1–8
Here’s the thing about debt. Someone has to pay it. It doesn't just go away. In Scripture, our sins are the debts, we are the debtors, and God is the one whose justice must be satisfied. This situation raises several questions, and we find the only sufficient answer in a doctrine called penal substitutionary atonement.
