The Old Testament prophets served as God’s mouthpieces, routinely giving voice to His Will. One of His more memorable declarations came through the pen of the prophet, Isaiah.: “My Thoughts are nothing like your thoughts. My Ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.”<\/p>\n
I can’t argue. Let’s take for an example, the precious gift of salvation. Who would have ever concocted such a plan wherein everybody since AD 1, with no exceptions, must believe in the seemingly absurd? We’re asked to trust in some self-proclaimed Offspring God, Whom just a fraction of people ever met and Who got stapled to a cross, that His Death could somehow procure for us, new and eternal life! Ludicrous! Even the Bible acknowledges this absurdity: “We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.”<\/p>\n
It was John the Baptizer who introduced this would-be-Savior-on-a-cross with this rather bizarre announcement: “Look! The Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world.” Really? Jesus was a man, not a Lamb; unless, of course, JB was preaching metaphorically.
\nWhy not come this Good Friday evening as we probe the mystery of this enigmatic proclamation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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