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Jesus and the Victory of God
Gustav Allein argued strikingly that actually that's not the center at all. In the cross God won the victory over the powers of darkness and so he polarized substitution and christmas victor Christ as vanquisher of forces of darkness. Ever since then people on both sides of the equation have assumed that those two are antithetical yes. John makes it quite clear through the narrative rather than theological theory that it happens through Jesus taking the place of the sinner whether it's barabbas or peter or whoever it is.