(2) While what is said above was the outward side, there was also an inward side to Christ's death. He suffered for sins to bring us to God (1 Peter 3:18). See also Psalm 22. Under the Mosaic law making atonement involved much more than simply the shedding of an animal's blood (see Leviticus) and so did the antitype, which is the death of Christ. Although we can rightly say that Christ taking the sinner's place on the cross as a malefactor is the central fact, his death involved a good deal more which it would be beyond the scope of this article to go into.

March 2001