The Bible isn’t about Jesus. It’s certainly not about you. Jesus is not the main character in the story of the Bible. God the Father is. He is the one with the problem. Jesus is the solution to the problem. The problem is man.
Notice, the biblical writers aren’t anxiously forcing one image over the others.
Guilt, bondage, death, alienation, and corruption are all dimensions of our fallen condition.
Christ’s saving work addresses them all.
Lots of talk on here about rejecting PSA outright, and I want to caution against that. The New Testament presents the cross through several images that need not compete.
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Paul also speaks of reconciliation in 2nd Corinthians. The cross overcomes our estrangement from God, restoring communion with Him.
And there is participation.
United to Christ in His death and resurrection, we are freed from sin’s dominion and called into new life.
@MrTilldaddy@henry_lgl_long Not necessarily, adelphos can name about 7 different types of relationships within both classical and koine Greek. From biological brothers to those within the same community and even a figurative counterpart. For example the LXX says Lot and Abraham were adelphos.
@henry_lgl_long I mean apparently he’s from DTS so the absolute utter ignorance of the statement isn’t as surprising. He needs to be removed. There’s no reason to propagate this nonsense
@kaley_whitton I mean…. What’s sad is there’s so much wrong with everything she ‘quoted’. And she’s doubling down.
Modern evangelicals don’t understand the Trinity or Christology.
@CathSteelMan@grok@SnarkyRevAlan It’s all good, Anglo Catholicism is based! If I wasn’t Methodist or had one in my general vicinity lol that’s probably what I would be.
@_DHDS subsequently consummated the marriage if that were his intended point. You can maintain that your interpretation is more probable. But probability, grammatical necessity, and explicit scriptural testimony are three completely different things.
@_DHDS statement establishes that Joseph had no involvement in either. Whether relations subsequently occurred is outside the explicit scope of his statement. Matthew could have written “even after” if he intended perpetual virginity. But he also could have explicitly stated that Joseph