Session 5 - REVELATION AND RECONCILIATION: Jesus’ Good News From the Cross скачать в хорошем качестве

Session 5 - REVELATION AND RECONCILIATION: Jesus’ Good News From the Cross

Summary: Many Christians understand what happened at the cross as a transactional, legal event where Christ paid for all our sins in order for God to forgive us. In this session, it is proposed we stop seeing Calvary as a separate legal transaction in which an angry God is appeased by the cruel death of His Son into forgiving humankind, and instead, we see it as the climactic act of a panoramic drama that is played out in the history of Israel. The truth is Jesus did not die from God’s punishment on Calvary; He suffered fallen humanity’s rejection of God’s self-revelation in the flesh. God didn’t punish Jesus on the cross. Instead, God offered Himself through His own Son as the scapegoat for humanity’s rejection of the true image of God. At the end of His atonement work on earth, Christ took on the apex of evil within the hearts of sinful humanity – injustice and violence – and suffered the ultimate curse of sin – death. At the cross Jesus overcame evil and death through forgiveness and grace.