C. Unscriptural Theories Concerning the Death.

“Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures” (Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob). Anything that is not of the Scripture is false.

1. The Death of Christ Was a Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob. “In this He died to show us that Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob.” How does the child of God meet this argument? Simply by the following: Why didn’t Christ say so? Why didn’t Paul say so? Why didn’t Peter say so? And why didn’t John and Luke say so? If Christ had died a martyr’s death, why didn’t the apostles say, “Believe on Stephen’s death and be saved, for Stephen was a martyr?” If Christ died as a martyr, why didn’t the Father Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob as He has done others down through the centuries? But He cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

2. The Death of Christ Was Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob. By the above statement critics mean that He was the Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob. This we know is not true, for He was Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob. Seven times in the Gospel of John He speaks of “mine hour,” which was in the future, and which was Calvary. He need not have died. Nails did not hold Christ upon the cross, but His will. “Come down from the cross, if thou be the Son of God,” cried the mob; but Christ did not come from heaven to come down from the cross.

3. The Death of Christ Was a Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob. This theory holds that a drunkard has only to think on Christ and he will improve. To refute this we ask, “Why didn’t it improve the ones who crucified Him?” If Christ’s example is for the Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob, then Christianity is a failure. Why not look upon the cross of Peter, as he was crucified downward? Man needs more than improvement.

4. The Death of Christ Was an Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob. In other words some people think that God’s displeasure with sin is pictured on the cross rather than in hell. If the preceding statement is true, why the Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob? Why not crucify a plain sinner, instead of the best Man who ever lived?

5. The Death of Christ Was to Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob. God does love man, and the Cross does show that God loves him, but the death of Christ was not only to show God’s love.

6. The Death of Christ Was the Accidentalcomfort Him at His deathconscious of His future deathDeath of a CriminalExhibit of God’s Displeasure with SinI Cor. 15:3bimprovement of the worldincarnationMartyr’s DeathMoral ExampleShow Man That God Loves Himtruth is worth dying forvictim of a mob. Can it be possible that one could hold to this theory? The answer is “yes.” And we refute this theory by stating that Pilate found no fault in Him. A study of the trial, as found in the Gospels, will disprove this theory.