Salvation and atonement
What salvation requires and how traditions account for it.
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Interfaith Discussion on Atonement Theories w Jimmy AkinArjuna argues that atonement theories collapse unless they locate the problem the cross solves in us rather than in God or the world, and Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin largely agrees — rejecting penal substitution as unjust and unscriptural, offering sacrifice-as-gift as the primary model, and denying both the necessity of the crucifixion and Christian exclusivism.Jimmy Akin · Lecture · 1h 1m· Nov 2024
Atonement Theories God's Anger ProblemIn a casual solo video, Arjuna sorts Christian atonement theories into three categories and argues penal substitution fails because it splits into two divine choices — forgiving us and punishing Jesus — the second of which is gratuitous unless God is subject to an external legal code or has an anger problem. · Lecture · 12m· Oct 2024
Philosophy of Religion & Some Politics w Michael HuemerAgnostic philosopher Michael Huemer argues to host Arjuna (Alex Gallagher) that original sin, penal substitution, and eternal hell violate the self-evident principle that nobody deserves punishment for a crime they did not commit, while Arjuna answers with the Hare Krishna alternative — karma as fitting, reformative punishment with unlimited chances — and defends spiritual practice against Huemer's unfalsifiability charge.Michael Huemer · Lecture · 2h· Jun 2023
What Makes us Saved Christian vs Vedanta SoteriologyCatholic apologist Jimmy Akin and ISKCON guru Howard Resnick (Hridayananda das Goswami), hosted by Arjuna, argue that Christian and Gaudiya Vaishnava soteriology converge on love of God, grace, and post-mortem purification, and diverge only where revelation — resurrection and atonement versus reincarnation and karma — settles what philosophy cannot.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Jimmy Akin · Lecture · 1h 55m· Jun 2023
Atonement Theories on Trial Interview with Joshua R. FarrisArjuna (Alex Gallagher) presses Christian theologian Joshua Farris on why an all-good God cannot simply forgive sin without a blood payment; Farris disowns penal substitution's popular 'Christus odium' extreme as picturing a petulant God and retreats to an Anselmian debt-of-honor theory, which Arjuna argues still fails.Joshua R. Farris · Interview · 2h 10m· Feb 2022