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The Legal and Vital Work of Salvation Part 21: What Made the Cross an "Open Shame"?
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Why did the Jewish leaders insist on crucifixion instead of the lesser penalty of stoning? Dr. Abel Damina explains that under the law, "he that is hanged is accursed of God" — so crucifixion, not stoning, made Jesus "a cause," an accursed and defiled thing to be rejected by both Jew and Gentile. Drawing on Deuteronomy 21, Galatians 3, and 1 Corinthians 1, he shows why the cross was "unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness." In this message from Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion, you'll see the cross the way its first witnesses actually understood it — and why that makes what happened there even more significant.
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