THE SCREAM OF THE DAMNED…WAS JESUS REALLY DAMNED BY GOD FOR OUR SALVATION?
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 17, 2008 in Current Issues, Theology
Apprising Ministries thinks this is an interesting question. Steve Camp writes:
I have listened now several times to two messages from the 2008 Resolved Conference by CJ Mahaney and John Piper. The shocking phrase they both chose to use to describe Jesus’ finished work of redemption on the cross for the elect was, The Scream of the Damned…
The Lord Jesus Christ the Righteous now called: The Damned. This is unthinkable. Those words not only stunned me, but it did stir my interest afresh to go back and study again the atoning work of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross with those provocative words in mind…
In all of my research, I haven’t been able to find anyone who referred to Jesus’ suffering on the cross as “the damning of Jesus”; and not one early church father that referred to Jesus as “The Damned” when speaking of the cross and substitutionary atonement…
You can read the rest of Camp’s post here.