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Mar 29, 2024 · 1. Jesus’ death is significant because of who He is. It is not the purpose of this article to discuss the identity of Jesus in detail but His death would have little significance 2,000 years later if he was only an itinerant preacher who started his working life as a carpenter in Nazareth, a despised town in Israel.
Dec 14, 2023 · Jesus’ death on the cross is not just an event of historical significance; it’s a culmination of his life’s mission. This article delves into this momentous event's profound spiritual and moral implications, exploring its deep connection to Jesus’ teachings and their relevance in today’s world.
- Introduction
- Methods of Ancient Time Reckoning and Framework of The Crucifixion Day
- Proposed Views of Harmonization
- The Time of Jesus’s Death and Inerrancy
- Conclusion
The differences in the gospel record on the time of Jesus’ crucifixion have long been an enigma to Bible scholars. Mark 15:25 reads that Jesus was crucified at the third hour. Under a Jewish or common reckoning time system, which started the day at sunrise, Jesus was crucified at about nine in the morning. However, in the Gospel of John, John write...
In the modern age people reckon time in hours, minutes, and seconds with clocks, watches, or phones. But time reckoning in the ancient world was reckoned with hours of sunlight based on sundials. If a sundial was not available rough times were based on eyeing the sun or one’s own shadow or even just the shadow from a stick in the ground.4 Sundials ...
The proposed views of harmonization will be taken in the general order in which they developed over time.
The time of Jesus’ death has truly been a puzzle for anyone who has looked at this issue. All of the views for reconciliation have good arguments against them, but good arguments are not the same as decisive arguments. At least three resolutions (confusion of letters of gamma and digamma, Roman civil reckoning of John, and time approximation) in th...
In summary, inerrancy applies to the original autographs of the Bible, does not require “modern technical precision,” and is not negated by differences in parallel passages that have not been resolved. So, while the time of Jesus’ death as a case study does not prove the doctrine of inerrancy neither does it disprove it either. One area that could ...
Mar 6, 2014 · John Piper explains: “Jesus’s death is both guilt-bearing and guidance-giving. It is a death that forgives sin and a death that models love. It is the purchase of our life from perishing and the pattern of a life of love” (What Jesus Demands from the World, 266). 5. The death of Jesus reconciles us to God.
- God’s love is different than natural human love. God loves us when we’re utterly unlovable. When Jesus died, he died for the ungodly, for sinners,...
- The death of Christ was effective in its purpose. And its goal was not just to purchase the possibility of salvation, but a people for his own poss...
- Jesus’s death was substitutionary. That is, he died in our place. He died the death that we deserved. He bore the punishment that was justly ours....
- Jesus’s death wasn’t just an act of love, it defines love. His substitutionary death is the ultimate example of what love means, and Jesus calls th...
- Justification, propitiation, and redemption — all benefits of Christ’s death — have one great purpose: reconciliation. Jesus’s death enables us to...
His Sacrifice, Our Hope: How Jesus' Death Still Impacts Our Lives Today Jesus’ death left us with an eternal hope that outlasts and tragedy that we encounter.
Oct 24, 2024 · Through His life, death, and resurrection, Jesus reframed death not as an end, but as a transition. His teachings and, more powerfully, His own victory over death, offered a new paradigm. Death was no longer the ultimate enemy but a doorway to eternal life in communion with God. As He declared, “I am the resurrection and the life.
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While these J-Curves are all based on Jesus’s death and resurrection, our own dying to sin and being raised to newness of life is a J-Curve in its own right. Miller summarizes by saying, “Jesus substitutes himself for us, we substitute the pieces of our lives for others” (p. 30). The book is divided into five sections.
