The language that God gave His only Son is one of a kind and unique. The motive was love, not God's anger. Christ died in our place and He bore the justice of God for our sins. That's what substitutionary atonement is all about.
The second of the Comfortable Words, John 3:16, demonstrates God’s desire and initiative to save his people. In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, and Bob Hiller unpack this familiar verse and consider its implications for how we think about salvation, fellow image-bearers, and our Christian freedom.