To suppose that by our disobedience we have taken something away from God, in the loss of which He suffers, for which He requires satisfaction, and that this satisfaction has been made to Him by the cross sacrifice (as if doing wrong were incurring a debt to Him, which somehow must be paid, though it matters not by whom), is so infinitely derogatory to His majesty, to every idea which I can form of His nature, that to believe it in any such sense as this confounds and overwhelms me. In the strength of my own soul, for myself, at least, I would say boldly, rather let me bear the consequences of my own acts myself, even if it be eternal vengeance, and God requires it, than allow the shadow of my sin to fall upon the innocent.


Letter X - The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

James Anthony Froude Quotes

To suppose that by our disobedience we have taken something away from God, in the loss of which He suffers, for which He requires satisfaction, and...

To suppose that by our disobedience we have taken something away from God, in the loss of which He suffers, for which He requires satisfaction, and...

To suppose that by our disobedience we have taken something away from God, in the loss of which He suffers, for which He requires satisfaction, and...

To suppose that by our disobedience we have taken something away from God, in the loss of which He suffers, for which He requires satisfaction, and...