Well, yes, He did, but — and this is a gigantic but — certainly not in the way many Christians have been taught to believe: that the Son of God became man and died on Calvary to satisfy divine justice and pay for humankind’s sins.

“That’s heresy.” So said leading Filipino theologian Catalino Arevalo of the Jesuit-run Loyola School of Theology about the widespread teaching that God would not have forgiven humankind’s sins if Jesus Christ did not suffer and die for us.