Sentences with phrase «cross as judgment»

Is the notion of the cross as judgment simply mythology?

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We weren't demythologizing the Bible or playing down the blood or the cross of Jesus or the judgment of God (as Mark's logic would suggest these are interrelated with the ordination of women as pastors).

... While the Principle of Redemptive Withdrawal is focused on the abandonment Jesus experienced as he experienced the Father's judgment on the sin of the world, it is nevertheless grounded in the truth that the cross is the definitive expression of the self - giving, mutual indwelling agape - love that defines the triune God throughout eternity (p. 778).

For without a sense of sin, we end up with the situation described so well by H. Richard Niebuhr as early as 1937: «A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.»

Announcing to them their judgment is imminent, as he had just come from the victory on the cross.

Although in Pinnock, the Supreme Court gave the lie to exceptionality as the criterion (exceptionality is the outcome, not the criterion), the judgments in Pinnock and Powell are nevertheless littered with references to it being the exceptional case which will cross the proportionality threshold.