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#137 Atheist asks: Was Jesus’ death just a ’bad weekend at human camp’?

Ask NT Wright Anything

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I Was Very Sinful, Now I Get to Go to Heaven

I've always felt that that's sometimes where the missing link is, is simply the fact that it's God himself on the cross in this sense. And that's the heart of all the mystery of the gospel and its source of endless wonder. The Greek word hamartia sin means missing the mark, shooting an arrow at a target and missing. What is genuine humanness? It's reflecting God's image. Jesus dying for our sin releases the grip of the powers. That's the central thing. If after the 20th century you can't acknowledge this, how stupid are we?, he says.

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