What if everything you were taught about sin was designed to keep you afraid instead of free?

In this episode of Whiskey and the Writings, I sit down with my longtime friend Andrew Miller (Impact Campus Ministries) to dig into atonement theory, the doctrine that's supposed to explain how Jesus's death and resurrection actually fix our relationship with God. Except once you start looking, you realize there isn't just one answer. There are at least eight.

We walk through three of the major atonement theories (recapitulation, Christus Victor, and penal substitutionary atonement), and why the "chasm between you and God, bridged by the cross" image most of us grew up with isn't the only lens Christians have used for 2,000 years.

But before we can really talk atonement, we have to ask a harder question: what is sin, actually? Not the  ...