John Stott writes:
"God himself 'presented' (NIV) or 'put forward' (RSV) Jesus Christ as a propitiatory [anger removing] sacrifice (Rom. 3:25). It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins (1 Jn. 4:10). It cannot be emphasized too strongly that God's love is the source, not [merely] the consequence, of the atonement . . . God does not love us [merely] because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us. If it is God's wrath which needed to be propitiated, it is God's love which did the propitiating."
From John Stott, The Cross Of Christ (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1986), 174.
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