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12 results for “Crucifixion”
Clear searchThe crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
Did Jesus Really Die? The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an Christianity and Islam cannot both be correct about the death of Jesus. The Gospel declares that Jesus was crucified under Pontius Pilate, di…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…h more than one ancient textual stream. Christians did not compose the prophecy after the crucifixion and insert it seamlessly into an otherwise unsuspecting Jewish Bible. The prophecy was already there. The disagreement concerns its interpretation, not a Christian invention of t…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…32. He identified the endpoint with Christ's presentation in Jerusalem shortly before the crucifixion. The calculation is ingenious and has rightly drawn attention to the remarkable messianic shape of Daniel's chronology. It should not be presented as though every premise were un…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
…own resurrection was physical and recognisable: He could be touched, He bore the marks of crucifixion, and He ate with His disciples. Paul does call the resurrection body “spiritual” (1 Corinthians 15:44), but the contrast is not between material and immaterial. A spiritual body…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…pels identify Jesus within the divine identity; the Qur'an denies His divine Sonship. The crucifixion is embedded in the earliest Christian proclamation and established by historical evidence; the Qur'an denies that Jesus was killed and crucified. The apostolic Gospel announces C…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…not the Word who was God and made all things. It can speak of His exaltation, but not His crucifixion, resurrection and worship. That is not confirmation of the Gospel testimony. It is a reconstruction of Jesus under a prior theological limit. The decisive question is therefore n…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…ly to Jesus? Where do they teach that another person was made to appear like Jesus at the crucifixion? Where do they identify the future Arabian prophet? Where is their continuous manuscript tradition from the apostles? Why should their rejection of Paul be treated as original wh…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…ng objection remains. Christianity confesses Jesus as divine, worships Him, proclaims His crucifixion as atonement, releases Gentiles from circumcision and dietary law, and gathers a multinational Church. Rabbinic Judaism rejects those claims. Does calling the New Testament Jewis…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…He can be contained within the category of prophet. We have considered eternal love, the crucifixion, divine justice, forgiveness and assurance. We have tested the transmission of the Bible, the missing Islamic Injeel, the Qur’an’s miracle claim, alleged prophecies of Muhammad,…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…n is harmless. If forgiveness required only a reassuring declaration, the incarnation and crucifixion become unintelligible. At Calvary, love does not redefine evil. It bears its judgement. The gospel summons sinners to repent and believe. Those reconciled to God are created unto…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…saiah 42. Muhammad is not. John 14–16: is Muhammad the Comforter? On the night before His crucifixion, Jesus promises His disciples "another Comforter". The Greek word is paraklētos, which can describe a helper, advocate or one called alongside. The Muslim claim Some Muslims argu…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…their narrated sequence easier to see. Matthew 21 occurs during the final week before the crucifixion. Several later sayings test the claim that Jesus had just cancelled Israel's earthly kingdom permanently. The Messiah remains David's Son and Lord After the vineyard controversy,…
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