This aspect must be a first principle for it alters the entire plan of salvation. Consider just in what we have gone over so far, that bro. Stone teaches that the devil is sin, in the sense of transgression. We believe that the devil is human nature. Bro. Stone teaches that the flesh, by itself is not an evil thing. We teach that in the flesh dwells no good thing. Bro. Stone teaches that sin is only symbolically condemned in the sacrifice of Christ. We teach that it is actually condemned. Bro. Stone teaches that when we see God exhibited as right and just in requiring Christ to go up on the cross, we are seeing a symbol. We say, that if Christ was not actually made sin for us, in being made sin nature; then what we would see on the cross was an innocent man, one not subject to the death he died, (for the wages of sin is death, if there was no sin in Christ, his death was wrong) being required to do so by God. This would be an exhibition of injustice, not justice. Paul says that this exhibition is the basis for the forgiveness of our sins. This must therefore be not only a first principle, but the first principle upon which all others hinge. Hence bro. Roberts called it the hub of the wheel.