I recently spent a fair bit of time speaking to an Anabaptist pastor about our various theories of the atonement. An atonement theory seeks to answer the essential question: what did the cross of Jesus Christ accomplish? What did it do? How does it change things? Historically Anabaptists have answered that question in a variety of different ways, however, as well known Anabaptist scholar Greg Boyd explains here, most modern day members of that community are gravitating towards the Christus Victor view of the atonement, which is the idea that:
Can God “Just Forgive” Sins?
