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Mark D. Roberts
Why Did Jesus Have to Die? The Perspective of the First Christians, Part 2
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Mark D. Roberts
The Means of Reconciliation In my last post, I examined one of the very earliest Christian statements of the purpose of Jesus’ death. According to the tradition encapsulated in 1 Corinthians 15, Jesus died “for our sins in accordance with the scriptures” (15:3). Yet this text doesn’t explicate further the way in which the death…
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