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May 2023
26m 26s

Why Did Christ Die?

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On the cross, Jesus fully satisfied the demands of God's justice. Today, R.C. Sproul outlines the biblical doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement and conveys the magnitude of Christ's death.

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