Crushed For Our Iniquities - by Justin Huffman

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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The author explains the Calvinist/Reformed belief that the Father punished Jesus for our sins. We reject this repulsive and pernicious doctrine. We will explain below.
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He was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).

At the heart of the gospel — at the heart of what happened on the cross to Jesus Christ — is substitution. It is Jesus taking the place, (This is utterly false. There is no verse in the Bible that tells us Jesus substituted for us. It's just not there. Check it for yourself, dear reader.)

and therefore the punishment, (This also is utterly false. There is no Bible verse that tells us the Father punished Jesus. 

Notice the previous verse: 

Isaiah 54:4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 

Isaiah starts with a truth statement [Surely he took up our infirmities], then tells us we contradicted it by our false understanding [yet we considered him stricken by God]. Dear reader, we need to be clear about this, Isaiah was correcting the way "we" considered the situation.

That's were the author picks up, at verse five. After Isaiah corrects our false thinking in verse four, he once again tells us the truth in verse five, that Jesus was pierced, crushed, and chastised. But Isaiah is clear, Jesus was not stricken, smitten, or afflicted by God. 

That is, Isaiah is essentially saying, "don't blame God for what men did to Jesus.")

of sinners who deserved God’s wrath. At the cross, Jesus got what we deserved. Isaiah 53:5 gives us this clear insight into Jesus’ death. (Waaait. Read the verse. There is nothing in it about the Father inflicting these things on Jesus. It was all done by the Roman soldiers and Jewish leaders.

The Father did not punish Jesus. 

Jesus' sacrifice is presented in the OT via typology. The OT animal sacrifices were pictures of Jesus' greater sacrifice. The OT animals were not punished, they were not regarded as guilty, they did not substitute for the sacrificer. 

The spilled blood was the purpose: 

He. 9:22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. 

There is no need to punish Jesus, because His blood is sufficient. His death was sacrificial, not substitutionary.)

What a dreadful catalog of misery-words we find in Isaiah 53: despised, rejected, sorrowful, grieving, stricken, smitten, afflicted, crushed, chastened, wounded, oppressed, slaughtered, stripped, imprisoned, judged, cut off, travailing, poured out to death. Think on that, Christian believer! Jesus was, at the cross, enduring what you deserved, in your place. (The author repeats himself, adding no new information.)

But Jesus did not just bare (sic) this grief for us — he successfully bore it, (Isaiah uses the word "bore" in verse 12:

Isaiah 53:12 ...For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

The Hebrew word for "bore" is nasa', which means to lift or carry. The same word is used here: 

Nu. 11:14 I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.

Jesus did not bear our sin in the sense of "bearing up" under punishment. When He bore our sin, He carried the burden like someone taking out the trash, nailing it to the cross [Colossians 2:14].)

in our place, so that we are therefore healed through his substitutionary suffering: “with his wounds we are healed.” We are healed because Jesus was slain. (The author wants this to be a swap, but that isn't the case. Again, Jesus' death was sacrificial, not substitutionary.)

May the sorrow of the cross, and the joy of your redemption, lead you to a heart full of praise to your Savior every day.