Can another creature—any at all— pay this debt for us?
Text: CRC/RCA 2011 · Read it at the source
No. To begin with, God will not punish any other creature for what a human is guilty of. Furthermore, no mere creature can bear the weight of God’s eternal wrath against sin and deliver others from it.
Scripture proofs
- 1
- Ezek. 18:4, 20; Heb. 2:14-18
- 2
- Ps. 49:7-9; 130:3