Christ’s Atoning Death was NOT “Divine Child Abuse” Many feminist and womanist (and other) theologians claim that traditional atonement theories, including any and all that consider Jesus’s death on the cross part of a divine plan, constitute “divine child abuse” and wrongly justify human abuse of children and women. This is simply absurd. Why? Because, Jesus was God voluntarily becoming human to, among other things, die as a sacrifice for the sins of humanity. When I hear or read a... Read more