In Killing Jesus, Satan Cast out Satan
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this 3-Part series on how Satan casts out Satan, we learned that Satan uses violent religion to attack and kill the messengers of God, and thus, appear to be “casting out Satan”...
View ArticleJesus as the Divine Scapegoat
Yesterday we looked at the idea of God as a divine scapegoat. We pick up with this idea today, showing how Jesus also was a divine scapegoat. He not only revealed to us what God had been doing all...
View ArticleWhen the Fullness of Time Had Come
Some people wonder why Jesus came when He did. Why not earlier … or later? I have tackled this question in previous posts, but as I continue to research and write my book When God Pled Guilty, I came...
View ArticleGod is Not Angry With You
One of the reasons Jesus came was to reveal God to us. Among all the truths that Jesus revealed to us about God, one of the most critical truths in connection to the violence of God in the Old...
View ArticleWhy I Would Have Killed Jesus
One of the truths about ourselves that we learn from Jesus is that the violent portrayals of God in the Old Testament are really the reflections of violence that resides in our own hearts. Through...
View ArticleWe are of our father, the Devil
Yesterday we learned that if we had lived in the days of Jesus, we probably would have been among those calling for His death. The reason we do this is because we use violence to cover up violence, and...
View ArticleGod Takes on Our Violence
If it is on the cross that Jesus most fully reveals God, and it is on the cross that Jesus became sin for the world, then this means that in the Old Testament, God also was becoming sin for the world....
View ArticleJesus is the Elect One
Did it ever occur to you that Jesus was unregenerate? He never had to be regenerated by God because He never lacked eternal life. He always had eternal life. In fact, Jesus is eternal life (John...
View ArticleDoes Jesus Drown Babies?
Remember Andrea Yates? She is the mother who, in 2001, drowned her five children in a bathtub. She said that the devil had influenced her children, and so they needed to die. A few years later, another...
View ArticleWould Jesus waterboard His enemies?
I have a confession to make … I want to be waterboarded. Is that sort of twisted? I have real trouble believing that it is as bad as people make it out to be. In fact, I did a quick search, and found a...
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