There Are Five Atonement Theories, Not One. Here's Why That Matters
Christianity has produced at least five major theories of what the cross accomplished — Ransom, Christus Victor, Sacrifice/Access, Moral Influence, and Penal Substitution — spanning 2,000 years, and no ecumenical council has ever declared one of them "the" answer.
Rome Killed Jesus. God Did Not Require It. Here's Why
Jesus was executed by the Roman Empire on political charges ("King of the Jews"), by Roman soldiers, using a method reserved for slaves and rebels — and he asked God to stop it ("remove this cup from me"), which makes no sense if God required the death.
America Is Not in the Bible. Here's Why That Matters
he Bible was completed approximately 1,681 years before the United States existed — it says nothing about America, democracy, constitutional republics, or capitalism, and every verse cited for American exceptionalism is about ancient Israel, not a modern nation-state.**
The Bible mentions Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. It does not mention America. It could not, because the United States did not exist for another seventeen centuries after the last biblical text was written.