Lazar Puhalo And The Atonement
To reject the biblical doctrine of the atonement is to misunderstand the Gospel. Terms like "rationalism" or "scholasticism" are labels; and as one professor of logic said, "When you settle for labels, it shows you are not willing to think." Contrariwise, this is about intelligent theologians who disagree with your interpretation, and for good reasons. The following is not an exhaustive treatment covering this topic. Lazar Puhalo claims that the doctrine of the atonement is pagan. Such is not the case. Whenever I hear there is something pagan in Christianity, the liberal history of religions school of Anti-Semitic German theologians of the early 20th century comes to mind. Due to Anti-Semitism, these theologians sought to view Christ against the background of paganism, not Old Testament Judaism. Lazar needs to understand that the doctrine of the atonement must be understood against the backdrop of the Old Testament animal sacrificial system, and that thi...