Christian theories of atonement:
1. Moral Influence Theory: God sent himself to sacrifice himself by killing himself to positively influence humanity.
2. Ransom Theory: God sent himself to sacrifice himself by killing himself to either himself or Satan, whom he created, to ransom us from the sin he created.
3. Christus Victor: God sent himself to sacrifice himself by killing himself to defeat the sin he created.
4. Satisfaction Theory: God sent himself to sacrifice himself to himself to pay himself back for the injustice of sin, which he created, by killing himself.
5. The Penal Substitutionary Theory: God sent himself to sacrifice himself to himself by killing himself to save us from himself.
6. The Governmental Theory: God sent himself to sacrifice himself to himself by killing himself to punish himself for the sin he created, thereby propitiating himself.
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