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Luke 9:51 sn Taken up is a reference to Jesus’ upcoming return to heaven by crucifixion and resurrection (compare Luke 9:31). This term was used in the LXX of Elijah’s departure in 2 Kgs 2:9. Luke 9:51 tn Grk“he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation ...
3.On this point the Paraclete has to convincethe world.The rejection of Jesus was virtually the act of the race. Herod, &c., were not fiends but men. We can understand them because we are so much like them. All the vices that culminated in the Crucifixion are those of every generatio...
As such, an informed reading of the New Testament, especially for a believing audience, will involve pursuing three main questions:(1) On the historical side, how did Christianity begin, and why did it take the shape that it did? (2) The literary turn...
A man who disbelieved the Christian story as fact but continually fed on it as myth would, perhaps, be more spiritually alive than one who assented and did not think much about it.” So claimed C. S. Lewis in his 1944 essay “Myth Became Fact.” Lewis insisted that myth lies at the...
(FWIW, on the original Jesus Christ, Superstar record, Byrd did the, er, music for the crucifixion scene.) Since one of the typical tracks on the proffered album was “You Can’t Ever Come Down” opening with the repeated phrase “waiting to die”, the tape copy went away after a ...
What did the Jews do? The Jews started a race war. The Jews made the most backwards Blacks hate White people. What did the Jews do in America? Make the most retarded blacks hate white people. In the Jews’ Talmud Jews hate every non-Jew. In Jew Communism the Jews expanded the number...
Or go back before movies to literature-—Shakespeare, Greek tragedy—everybody can find some fall guy for why they commit some act of violence. You can say ‘My family insisted I learn about the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.’ That’s a violent act where somebody is impaled on a cross.”...