Jesus' crucifixion is the central demonstration of God's love. The four gospel writers uniformly present our Savior's death as the climax of his entire ministry on earth, the final goal of his mission. To downplay the significance of the cross, therefore, even to the slightest degree, is to strip the Gospel of its
We cannot legitimately deduce this form a mere contrasting of the idea of evil with the idea of good. But we can say it in the light of the fact that in Jesus Christ, in His death (the meaning of which is shown in His resurrection to be His victory and the liberation of man), we see evil overcome and indeed shattered
A third notable feature of Paul's introductory talk of the gospel in Romans is his immediate use of earlier Christian tradition. In Rom. 1.1-4 he continues to disrupt the normal epistolary greeting by inserting what most regard as a pre-Pauline formula (1.3-4):
For a long time already scholars have emphasized that the biblical texts are really to be considered as God's Word - as the living voice, the viva vox - only when they are preached, only hen presented in the oral fashion. To support this, words by Luther such as the following have been cited:
But is it fair to blame human beings for their misconduct? Are we really responsible for our actions? Are we not more often victims of other agencies than free agencies ourselves, and so more sinned against than sinning? A whole gamut of scapegoats is ready at hand - our genes, our chemistry (a temporary hormonal
If in sin-bearing or curse-bearing terms, and both linked this fact in sin-bearing or curse-bearing terms, and both linked this fact with the verses in Deuteronomy about being hanged from a tree, is it not reasonable to suppose that already in their Acts speeches, in which they called the cross a tree, they had