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What does substitutionary mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to substitution, or replacement.
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Not all sinners may accept the offer, but God is reconciled to all, in the sense that the substitutionary atonement of Christ covers all wrongfulness.
I could not be disrated, as I was only a cabin-boy, but a substitutionary penalty was invoked against me.
The substitutionary sacrifice of the incarnated Son of God as the sole and all-sufficient ground of redemption from the guilt and power of sin, and from its eternal consequences.
Finally, at age 48, on the authority of God's Word alone, by grace alone, I accepted Christ's substitutionary death on the Cross alone.
Evidently here is the notion of a substitutionary offering, although the reason given is not the true reason.
It affirms the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures, original sin, substitutionary atonement and justification by faith.

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