

No power of hell, no scheme of man, Can ever pluck me from His hand Till He returns or calls me home, Here in the power of Christ I'll stand. No guilt in life, no fear in death, This is the power of Christ in me From life's first cry to final breath. There in the ground His body lay Light of the world by darkness slain: Then bursting forth in glorious Day Up from the grave he rose again! And as He stands in victory Sin's curse has lost its grip on me, For I am His and He is mine - Bought with the precious blood of Christ. In Christ alone! who took on flesh Fulness of God in helpless babe! This gift of love and righteousness Scorned by the ones he came to save: Till on that cross as Jesus died, The wrath of God was satisfied - For every sin on Him was laid Here in the death of Christ I live. What heights of love, what depths of peace, when fears are stilled, when strivings cease! My Comforter, my All in All, here in the love of Christ I stand.


As I understand the Bible, it was because 'God so loved the world' that He was willing 'to crush Him and cause Him to suffer.Godly Woman Daily - " In Christ Alone " song by Famous Christian Artists : ❤ Newsboys -> ❤ Keith & kristyn Getty -> ❤ Booth Brothers -> ❤ Philips, Craig, and Dean - > ❤ Kristian Stanfill -> ❤ Lou Fellingham of Phatfish -> ❤ Stuart Townsend -> ❤ Natalie Grant -> ❤ Brian Littrell -> ❤ Owl City -> ❤ Anthony Evans -> ❤ Travis Cottrel -> In Christ alone my hope is found, He is my light, my strength, my song this Cornerstone, this solid Ground, firm through the fiercest drought and storm. At the end of the day, the cross itself is the stumbling block, and that is why the PCUSA cannot abide by this hymn." Meanwhile, Bob Terry of The Alabama Baptist wrote that he agreed with satisfaction theory, but "if the meaning of 'wrath' is that God is vindictive and took joy in punishing His Son then that is not how I find God described in the Bible. The cross is not an instrument of God's wrath." Timothy George, the dean of Beeson Divinity School, criticized the decision in an online column titled "No Squishy Love" and claimed that it "fits into a wider pattern of downplaying parts of Christian doctrine that are offensive." Boyce College professor Denny Burk took a view similar to George, stating that "When wrath goes, so does the central meaning of the atonement of God: penal substitution. PCUSA minister Chris Joiner of First said that while many in his congregation liked the hymn, he agreed with the decision because "that lyric comes close to saying that God killed Jesus. The committee's decision to exclude the song triggered a larger debate across denominations and within the Presbyterian Church USA itself. Critics of the committee's decision pointed out that the hymnal included other hymns endorsing satisfaction theory and the penal substitution model of atonement, including "O Sacred Head Now Wounded." According to committee chair Mary Louise Bringle, the decision to exclude "In Christ Alone" centered not on the word "wrath" but rather on "satisfied." In 2013, a 15-member committee of the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to exclude the song from a new church hymnal after Townend and Getty refused permission to alter the controversial line to "the love of God was magnified." Members of the committee to compile the hymnal had discovered the alternate lyrics in a Baptist hymnal from 2010, causing them to assume that the change had been authorized by the copyright holders. This line has hence made the song a subject of criticism by opponents of satisfaction theory. The second verse of the hymn contains the line, "Till on that cross as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied," which adheres to the satisfaction theory of atonement.

Mannbradmusic I suspect this explains it (excerpt from Wiki):
