Tag: Sin
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Rethinking Jesus (15) My (current) Conclusions …
Firstly, there is the Jesus of History. I’ve had to acknowledge the fact that he had a view of the world which is different from mine, including beliefs I don’t share. For example, being a Jew, he believed in circumcision, in observing the sabbath day, (even if not in the inflexible, box-ticking way of others),…
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Rethinking Jesus (13) A Saviour from Sin?
Jesus earliest followers most likely believed that he was the promised Jewish Messiah, who would become the king of a restored Israel after the imminent, cataclysmic arrival of the earthly Kingdom of God. Let’s try, then, to grasp their traumatic shock and potential despair, when he was arrested, cruelly humiliated, and crucified. That was the…
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The Gospels (9) ‘Causing a Stir’
The 3rd “sign”, (in John 5), introduces us to a number of problematical issues. We’re told about a pool in Jerusalem, close to which lie “many sick, blind, lame and paralysed people”. It has a strange feature. Every now and again, for no discernible reason, “the water is stirred up”. Most modern translations omit an…
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Not so good ‘Good Friday’
Good Friday, in the Gospel accounts, is the day on which Jesus of Nazareth died. What many people don’t know, or don’t care to know, is that in John’s Gospel, he died on the Thursday. Confusingly for the rest of us, the Jewish day runs from sunset to sunset, so Friday begins on what you…
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