What the first Christians believed about Easter

Episode 12 of the Faith Lab podcast, hosted by Nate Hanson & Shelby Hanson, titled "What the first Christians believed about Easter" was published on April 1, 2026 and runs 18 minutes.

April 1, 2026 ·18m · Faith Lab

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Summary

The hardest critiques of the cross target one version of the gospel. The earliest Christians were teaching something bigger.For a thousand years before penal substitution became the dominant framework, the church proclaimed something wider: that God entered into death to destroy it from the inside. Irenaeus, Athanasius, and Gregory of Nyssa all described it, and their version answers the questions that trip most of us up.🙏 Faith Lab is a listener-supported show. If these conversations are helping you, you can support the show at faithlabshow.com/support ★ Support this podcast ★

Episode Description

The hardest critiques of the cross target one version of the gospel. The earliest Christians were teaching something bigger.

For a thousand years before penal substitution became the dominant framework, the church proclaimed something wider: that God entered into death to destroy it from the inside. Irenaeus, Athanasius, and Gregory of Nyssa all described it, and their version answers the questions that trip most of us up.

🙏 Faith Lab is a listener-supported show. If these conversations are helping you, you can support the show at faithlabshow.com/support

★ Support this podcast ★

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