 Substantiary Atonement Theory, which was first recorded in the 16th century, that a debt had to be paid for your sins, so Jesus had to die. And from that, we gathered, you are terrible. Someone had to die because you are so gross and yet. Doesn't that make you feel terrible? And it perpetuates hate. Hold up, wait a minute. In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree that we might die to sin and live to righteousness by his wounds. You have been healed. Without the bad news that you have sinned or guilty and deserving of God's wrath, the Gospel makes no sense. The truth is that the Gospel is offensive to those who are perishing and we need to approach people with truth in love and leave the rest to God. Not water down the Gospel like so many do.