“To deny the wrath of God was poured out on Jesus at the cross reveals a basic misunderstanding of God’s holiness/love & sin’s gravity/cost,” Akin tweeted.įor Akin and others, it’s not an either/or proposition it’s that God’s love and His wrath both are vital elements of the cross.
8, adding, “Baptist should be embarrassed by this!” In a subsequent tweet, Akin indicated that Terry was saying Jesus didn’t satisfy the wrath of God “after misrepresenting what is meant.” In a second tweet, Lance wrote, “I especially love the lyrics affirming substitutionary atonement.”Īkin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, tweeted a link to Terry’s column Aug. Keith Getty co-wrote the song, and his wife Kristyn sings it. 9, Lance wrote, “I love the Gettys! I love ‘In Christ Alone.’ I believe in the substitutionary atonement of Christ!” and he linked to a video performance of the song. Lance and Killian, pastor of Maytown Baptist Church, affirmed the lyrics of the hymn In Christ Alone and wrote, “As Alabama Baptists seek to be true to Scripture, we affirm the essential and historic Christian doctrine of substitutionary atonement.” They offered their prayer support to Terry and the newspaper’s staff “and we call on all who have expressed concern to pray as well.” 9 in response to the editorial, noting, “We share the expressed concerns of many who have disagreed with the article.” Lance, along with Alabama State Board of Missions President John Killian, released a statement Aug. To me this does not properly recognize God’s love expressed in the incarnation….” Some emphasize God as angry and vengeful. In a clarification posted above the original column, Terry said the editorial was not about atonement but “about what has been called ‘the mindset of God’ at Calvary. That is why I prefer to focus on His love evidenced at Calvary rather than on His wrath.” “Sometimes Christians carelessly make God out to be some kind of ogre whose angry wrath overflowed until the innocent Jesus suffered enough to calm Him down.” “Yet there remains a question about whether God was an angry God at Golgotha whose wrath had to be appeased by the suffering of the innocent Jesus,” Terry wrote. In his editorial, Terry wrote that the Bible “speaks clearly about the wrath of God and warns that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God.” 12 in which he wrote that some of the controversy could relate to “different meanings of the word ‘wrath.'” Terry’s editorial prompted numerous reactions on Twitter from concerned Southern Baptist leaders, including Daniel Akin, Hershael York, Chad Brand and Jason Duesing, as well as an official statement from Rick Lance, executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, and a clarification by Terry.Ī clarification by Terry was issued to the media Aug. “That is not how I understand the Bible and that is why I do not sing the phrase ‘the wrath of God was satisfied’ even though I love the song ‘In Christ Alone.'” “Some popular theologies do hold that Jesus’ suffering appeased God’s wrath,” Terry wrote. 8 editorial, paralleled the angst expressed by a Presbyterian Church USA hymnal committee in rejecting the song “In Christ Alone” because of the line “Till on that cross as Jesus died/The wrath of God was satisfied.” Substitutionary atonement refers to the belief that Jesus died in the place of sinners, taking on Himself the wrath of God that they deserved.īob Terry, editor of The Alabama Baptist, in an Aug.
NASHVILLE (BP) - The centrality of the doctrine of substitutionary atonement is being emphasized by Southern Baptist leaders after a state newspaper editor wrote that he does not sing certain words of a popular hymn due to its mention of God’s wrath.
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