Jesus “died for my sins.” Does that make any of us feel better? Of course not! It destroys the goodness of God. It turns God into a monster, it turns Jesus into a masochistic victim and it turns you and me into grieving buckets of trembling, guilt-filled jelly. This was not originally, is not now and can never be the meaning of Christianity. Atonement theology must be abandoned if there is to be a Christian future. The repudiation of atonement theology is an essential step before Christianity can ever appeal to the emerging generation.
