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God Himself in the person of Jesus did not inflict pain on somebody else but endured the humiliation on the cross and died for the sins of the world. We are aware of some primitive deities who demanded their devotees’ flesh and blood to appease their fury. Jesus is God Himself who came in the flesh, and in the words of Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God, “offered His own lifeblood in order to honor moral justice and merciful love so that someday he can destroy all evil without destroying us.
Some might deny this theology of atonement, that the narrative of the cross is no longer necessary. All that it takes is just to teach about God’s love for justice, for the poor and for the environment. Without the cross, the narrative is without the God of love. For the parents among us, we gave up a great measure of our own independence and freedom in order to raise our children who were completely dependent on us in their growing years. We sacrificed our own comfort. We limited our free time.
Many Jews refused to believe because all those years since the prophets, they were expecting a reigning Messiah geared up to liberate Israel from the yoke of captivity. But Jesus, the true Messiah, had to come first as a suffering Messiah in order that the world, not just His chosen people, might be saved from their sins. When He comes for the second time, He would deliver the world from the forces of evil and darkness, and we, His saints, will reign with Him forever and ever .
Jesus’ resurrection is a solid story. It was evidenced by the empty tomb of Joseph of Arimathea with the folded linen used in Jesus’ burial, it was also corroborated by witnesses. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all narrated that the first who saw the risen Christ were women. At the time, women’s social status was rather low, and it would not help the cause of documentation if the witnesses were women unless they had truly seen the Lord. Their testimonies were not admissible in court.
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