CONTINUITY OF THE CROSS
Carey Charles Newman writes: “The earliest Christian confession ‘Jesus is Lord’ is essentially a claim for continuity. Or as the book of Acts emblematically puts it, ‘Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.’ (Acts 2:36). The continuity could not be stated in any stronger terms. It was the crucified Jesus whom God made Lord.” “We read the Gospels with a luxury. We bask in the light shed by the revelatory powers of the resurrection. We see things about the historical Jesus that the first followers didn’t and couldn’t. We now see clearly than the historical Jesus was more than a prophet, the one who came to call Israel to repentance. We now see clearly that he was more than the Messiah, the one who came to embody, literally, Israel’s destiny. Because of the resurrection, we now know something that was true all along–that Jesus…
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