The Resurrection and the Blood - Part 3
Our Western mindset usually conceives “sacrifice” only as some kind of loss and not as something ceremonial. For instance, if a man chooses a lower-paying job in order to take care of an ailing wife, we think of that as sacrifice. The Word defines sacrifice quite differently, which means that we must adjust […]
The Resurrection and the Blood - Part 2
In order to accurately understand Jesus’s mission and John 19:30, we must address the issue of Paul’s shorthand. As Christians, we usually use shorthand terms like “atonement” to represent entire narratives about Bible issues. N.T. Wright explains it this way,
In Christian theology, such phrases regularly act as ‘portable stories,’ that is, ways of packing […]