No, Jesus did not have to die. He didn’t have to do anything, especially something as human as death, because Jesus was the Word, and “what God was, the Word was,” John 1:1. Does God have to do anything? No, he’s God, he’s utterly free to choose. So then is the Word. He’s just as free [...]
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Did Christ die to suppress or appease God’s anger? But that’s a horrible picture of God. What kind of God would take out his frustrations on his Son? Imagine how the newspapers would treat that today if a human father was so incensed with anger that he had his son tortured to death. It would [...]
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Easter takes us back to the secret of our future. It’s Jesus Christ, because it’s through him and him alone that God adopts us as his children, Ephesians 1:5 - ”In love God predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ.” But how does God adopt us through Jesus Christ? Romans 6:5 – [...]
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There are two steps in the process of our adoption as God’s children. The first one was Christ’s death, because, as Paul writes in Colossians 1:21 – “you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour.” Jesus died to remove a huge obstacle that stood in the way of [...]
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Easter answers the question “What happens to us in the end?” because it takes us back to the time when “the end” was decided. It was decided before our world began, Ephesians 1:4-5 – “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In [...]
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Easter for the most part is a farce. It’s the same old nonsense every year. Tons of chocolate will be consumed, children will hunt for hidden eggs, and there’ll be much mention of rabbits, but with no clear reason why any of it is being done, or even caring why. Easter in our sophisticated but [...]
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