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20 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 →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…ss brings the conflict to its climax. If incarnation offended the philosophical instinct, crucifixion appeared to confirm its worst judgement. Here was flesh exposed to pain, a body stripped and wounded, a man publicly humiliated and overcome by death. What could look less like d…
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 →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…rdinary man and that “the Christ” descended upon Him at baptism, then departed before the crucifixion. Theodotus was reported to have regarded Jesus as a man who received a unique divine power or status at baptism. The details were not identical, and ancient heresiological report…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…peak of the cross. The Son of God truly suffered and died; Christians must never turn the crucifixion into the suffering of someone other than the Son. Yet He suffered and died according to the humanity He had assumed. The divine nature did not become mortal or cease to sustain c…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…corporate belonging. Christ is publicly preached. Peter announces Jesus of Nazareth, his crucifixion, resurrection, exaltation, and lordship. The message is not a clue to the hearers' forgotten divinity. It concerns what God has done in history through the particular man whom Is…
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 →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…d Israel’s final trouble be presented as divine retaliation against Jewish people for the crucifixion of Christ. Daniel presents the final week as a period in which God completes His declared purposes for Daniel’s people and holy city, while the prophets repeatedly join Israel’s…
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 →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…d extraordinary privileges. Both failed the Lord during the darkest hours surrounding His crucifixion. Both experienced intense sorrow afterward—and yet their stories moved in very different directions. Judas descended into despair and death. Peter was brought through brokenness…
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 →The brothers of Jesus, the sons of Mary, and an argument of strong plausibility
…s applied to Christ in Romans 15:3. The gall and vinegar of Psalm 69:21 correspond to the crucifixion narratives. Psalm 69:25 is applied to Judas in Acts 1:20. These are not scattered similarities imposed upon an unrelated poem. Taken together, they establish Psalm 69 as an impor…
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,…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…ons remain about the full scope of princes, the point is clear: participation in Christ’s crucifixion did not entail recognition of the divine wisdom being accomplished through it. People can act against a reality whose significance they have failed to recognise. Their failure do…
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