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Why Did Jesus Have to Die? The Perspective of Jesus of Nazareth, Part 5
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Mark D. Roberts
The Last Supper: Megalomania or Mission? In my last post I discussed Jesus’ statement that he came, as Son of Man, to give his life as “a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). Here we begin to grasp Jesus’ sense of destiny. He sees himself as the Son of Man (from Daniel 7) who fulfills the…
Typewriters are Coming Back!!
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Mark D. Roberts
Yes, that’s right. Typewriters are making a comeback among digital generation folks. The New York Times reports a wave of interest in even manual ones, in “Click, Clack, Ding! Sigh . . .” by Jessica Bruder. I’m not surprised about this, actually. It’s just the beginning of a major wave that’s coming, in which non-digital…
Why Did Jesus Have to Die? The Perspective of Jesus of Nazareth, Part 4
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Mark D. Roberts
A Ransom for Many In my last post, I discussed the statement of Jesus: “For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). I talked about how this idea of the serving Son of Man was radically inconsistent with first-century…
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