On the contrary, according to the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion, Judas Iscariot had to indicate to the soldiers whom Jesus was because they could not tell him apart from his disciples. Further clouding the question of what Jesus ...
The drama is a supernatural drama taking place in the soul of man. In the beginning of time, the crucifixion took place. That’s when God became as we are that we may be as he is. God became man that man may become God. And that was in the very beginning of God. That was the ...
Effective Permission of Sin Cause of the Fall How did the Fall of Satan Happen? . . Intro It is often wondered how the first human sin came into the world. How did sin come from Adam’s holy soul? Did he have free-will in the matter, or was he necessitated to do what he did?
“If Saul was chosen, why would God abandon him? Why does the Holy Spirit depart from Saul?” It’s clear that the Holy Spirit’s departure for Saul is the divine judgment, since Saul gets an evil spirit from the Lord afterwards. The New King James says the word is “distressing” in...
(AD 14-37), which concurs with the NT (Lk. 3:1). (3) Tacitus’ reference to the “extreme penalty” is surely an allusion to crucifixion. The Romans considered crucifixion to be the most shameful death imaginable.[11](4) An “immense multitude” of Christians had sprung up in Rome ...
Do you happen to know something about this domain? Who are the authors I could or should be reading? Who are the lawyers that specialize in not only workers’ rights, but advocate for workers’ quality of life? Anna Thomas’ Grand Tour ...
The Roman Empire was known to keep meticulous records, but we have no records of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. (Perhaps the records did not survive, but that raises the question of why the church did not preserve them.) The politics of the era also probably helped to shape the ...
But I had learned to obey Jesus no matter what, and so I put my sword away and stepped back to see what would happen. Maybe he was going to call down fire from heaven and incinerate the soldiers and he wanted me out of the way. This was going to be a sight to see. ...
So now we come back around to the flood. The flood event is extremely violent, and the text blames this violence on God. This fact invites us to read the flood through the lens of the crucifixion. And when we do, we realize that the flood account of Genesis 6–8 sounds like the exp...
Did you know that for centuries ahead of time, God held a “dress rehearsal” for the crucifixion of Jesus the Messiah every single year in the exact city where it would happen and on the exact day it would happen? It is called Passover, and you can read more about it inLeviticus 23...