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"... he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." (v. 26) James Stewart writes: "I am deeply concerned that no one should imagine that this answer -- the Christian answer to man's desperate predicament -- is just archaic language, doctrinal theorizing, vague, rhetorical, irrelevant. In point of fact, it is the most terrific thrust of absolutely shattering realism this world has ever seen. All our words and theologies stagger before the mystery of the Cross; but that is because the Cross itself is the eternal word, dynamic and explosive enough to turn the world inside out and set its cosmic dislocation right. It is more than a word -- it is the supreme deed, God's deed, the dramatic breakthrough of the world beyond into this world of time and history. If you call the Cross history's blackest crime, the trumpeting triumph of concentrated naked demonism, you will be right; but God has got his hands on that demonic thing, and by a superb divine irony -- like David using Goliath's own sword to behead the giant -- has turned it into the devil's irrevocable defeat."
-- Anton
"... he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." (v. 26) James Stewart writes: "I am deeply concerned that no one should imagine that this answer -- the Christian answer to man's desperate predicament -- is just archaic language, doctrinal theorizing, vague, rhetorical, irrelevant. In point of fact, it is the most terrific thrust of absolutely shattering realism this world has ever seen. All our words and theologies stagger before the mystery of the Cross; but that is because the Cross itself is the eternal word, dynamic and explosive enough to turn the world inside out and set its cosmic dislocation right. It is more than a word -- it is the supreme deed, God's deed, the dramatic breakthrough of the world beyond into this world of time and history. If you call the Cross history's blackest crime, the trumpeting triumph of concentrated naked demonism, you will be right; but God has got his hands on that demonic thing, and by a superb divine irony -- like David using Goliath's own sword to behead the giant -- has turned it into the devil's irrevocable defeat."
-- Anton