Timothy Renfro

Timothy Renfro

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Christian. Atonement theology nerd. Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/timothyrenfro/p/introduction-weve-got-the-gospel?r=2p6ob5&utm_medium=ios

48 Followers 243 Following 53 Posts Joined Nov 2025
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Step-by-Step Guide to Forgiveness (Part 5): Forgiving Yourself Is "forgiving yourself" even a real thing?

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Step-by-Step Guide to Forgiveness (Part 4): When it's Complicated The relationship is a mess and there is probably wrong on both sides. Now what?

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Step-by-Step Guide to Forgiveness (Part 3): When You Have Been Wronged How do we forgive as God forgave us in Christ Jesus? But, like, really though?

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Sin De-Creates; Jesus Re-Creates (Part 1) What we can learn about sin as de-creation from the opening of Genesis

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Step-By-Step Guide to Forgiveness (Part 2): When You Are the Wrongdoer When you have done wrong, how do you seek forgiveness?

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The Power of Remorse (Part 8): Justification and Forgiveness How is remorse related to the ideas of justification and forgiveness?

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The Power of Remorse (Part 7): Jesus Forgives Paul Notice the parallels between the repentance of Paul and the death of Stephen

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The Power of Remorse (Part 5): Nathan Confronts David Forgiveness is a different process than what penal substitution teaches

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Sin De-Creates; Jesus Re-Creates (Part 5) What happened to Adam and Eve when they ate of the fruit?

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The Power of Remorse (Part 4): Joseph Forgives His Brothers Joseph's story teaches us so much about forgiveness in Christ

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3 months ago
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The Logic of Hell Doesn't Support Penal Substitution Believe it or not, hell is not introduced in the Bible as a punishment from God

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The Sacrificial System Doesn't Support Penal Substitution (Part 1) The sinner slays the sacrifice, the blood purifies from corruption

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3 months ago
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WATCH MY DEBATE: Is Penal Substitution Biblical? I debated the question "Is Penal Substitution Biblical?" on Sips With Serra

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The Power of Remorse (Part 3): Esau forgives Jacob What can Esau, of all people, teach us about forgiveness?

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3 months ago
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Abraham's Covenant Cutting Ceremony Doesn't Support Penal Substitution What is going on in Genesis 15 with the smoking oven, flaming torch, and bloody path?

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The Power of Remorse (Part 2): Baptism and Remorse What really is baptism, and does it have anything to do with remorse?

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The Logic of Hell Doesn't Support Penal Substitution Believe it or not, hell is not introduced in the Bible as a punishment from God

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The Power of Remorse (Part 1): What is Remorse? This film has one of the most insightful and powerful depictions of remorse I have ever seen

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3 months ago

Through our sin, we deceive ourselves, dissatisfy ourselves, and deform ourselves. We uncreate ourselves. But remember that through the seven stages of creation, we see God illumine the darkness (Day 1), form the formless (Days 1-3), and fill the emptiness (Days 4-6).

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Atonement According to Jesus: A Ransom For Many Wait . . . so who paid what to whom?

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Atonement According to Jesus: The Glorification of God Why does Jesus say his death is the glorification of God?

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Atonement According to Jesus: The Path of the Holy Spirit Why did Jesus die? So that the Holy Spirit would come to us.

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3 months ago

If by "Divine Command Theory" you just mean "Divine Reward/Punishment Theory" then really you just have an subjectivist-authoritarian framework that you have shoved God into.

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3 months ago

Everyone who votes for any law or politician is trying to impose their morality on everyone else. That is the way laws and democracies work.

The only thing the government does is legislate some view of morality.

Legislation is not sufficient to make a person moral, but that is a different argument

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Romans 8:3 Doesn't Support Penal Substitution What does it mean that God "condemned sin in the flesh"?

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Atonement According to Jesus: Laying Down One's Life Greater love has none than this: that a man would lay down his life for his friends

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4 months ago
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Atonement According to Jesus: Passover and Exodus Jesus Says His Death and Resurrection is the Passover and Exodus

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4 months ago
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Is Sin Self-Destructive? Yes. Sin is destruction, and sin is self-destruction.

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The Offering of Isaac Doesn't Support Penal Substitution The offering of Isaac is a parable of resurrection from death

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The Sacrificial System Doesn't Support Penal Substitution (Part 1) The sinner slays the sacrifice, the blood purifies from corruption

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