East Ridge Pres

Romans 3:25 Christ Jesus whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood. Propitiation means Christ spilled his blood to placate or satisfy the wrath of God. Most people don’t like this idea. Many churches have cut it right out of their doctrine and thrown it away. Though it is the teaching of the Apostles. “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound doctrine, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,” 2 Timothy 4 Tertullian, said in the second century, there were teachers who said that “a better god has been discovered, one who is neither offended nor angry nor inflicts punishment… he is merely kind.”  H. Richard Niebuhr (neeboor) said many churches taught “A God without wrath brought man without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.” People love a religion where God does not judge. Where they are treated as good people and offered only wisdom on how to do even better. Everyw