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Atonement: Was the Crucifixion Child Abuse? | Pastor Krist Norsworthy | Aug. 30, 2026
Isaiah 52:13–53:12
Why did Jesus have to die? Some people call the cross "cosmic child abuse." How can it be loving for an innocent person to be punished for someone else?
Hundreds of years before Jesus, Isaiah described a servant who would be crushed for our sins, by the will of the Lord, and who would willingly lay down His life. We talk about what penal substitutionary atonement means, why God's holiness, justice, and love all meet at the cross, and why the cross was never plan B.
The cross isn't abuse. It's the Son willingly taking our place to bring us back to the Father. That means we…
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