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- What Was God Demonstrating at Calvary?
At Calvary, was God demanding satisfaction—or demonstrating something about himself? This article argues that the cross was not the moment God became willing to forgive, but the moment he answered the oldest accusations against his character in public.
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- The Story of Micaiah and Ahab
A heavenly council, a lying spirit, and a king who marches to his own death: 1 Kings 22 looks like the story of a God who kills by proxy. Read closely, it's actually the story of how far he'll go before he lets you go.
Articles
- Why Did Jesus Die?
Did God need blood before he could forgive? Was somebody required to be punished before mercy was legally permitted? Or have we been reading the sacrifices backwards for a very long time?
- Why all this blood?
From Abel to the temple courts, Scripture is filled with sacrifice. But if the blood of animals could never take away sin, what was God trying to communicate?
- Why Was There a Tree at All?
Why did Adam need fruit? A question about one strange detail in Genesis, which turns out to run through the clotting of blood, a bronze snake, a shipwreck off Malta, and the last page of Revelation.
- The Story of Micaiah and Ahab
A heavenly council, a lying spirit, and a king who marches to his own death: 1 Kings 22 looks like the story of a God who kills by proxy. Read closely, it's actually the story of how far he'll go before he lets you go.
Fragments
- Why the Sabbath?
Of all the commandments, there is perhaps none that seems, on its face, more arbitrary and demanding than the fourth commandment—the…