The Atonement Theology in the Gospels

Jesus Bar Abbas represents a rebel Israelite who tries to confront Rome and what would normally be coming his way, which is to get killed by the Romans for being a rebel. But instead, the guilty Jesus Bar Abbas goes free and Jesus of Nazareth, who's innocent, takes his place and goes to his death. This recently struck me that that scene with Barabbas is actually close to the heartbeat of the atonement theology in the Gospels. It's amazing. So Jesus is experiencing God's anger here. He drinks the cup. What doesn't mean is God's anger at me and so he just like takes out his anger on me and kills me. And so he experienced that