Thus, penal substitution is most problematic because it makes God’s response to sin too much like our own. It is a sort of recasting of God in our own image, as opposed to allowing the divinely inspired Scriptures to speak for God’s motives.
This is a point that needs more time. Our conception of how punishment and sin are handled is not the same as how god handled our sin. We are not Christ. We cannot be God the Father in a penal substitutionary metaphor.
