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The Crucifixion

Undeceptions with John Dickson

CHAPTER

The Crucifixion

"It's perplexing to me still why the crucifixion itself is not more arresting for people," he says. "There isn't anything like this ever in the human story that God should give himself up, not only to be incarnate in the mess of human existence." People go to art galleries and see pictures depicting Christ's death, most of them very sanitized, but they look at them and say, 'Oh yes, that's Jesus on the cross' It's just astonishing to me that more people are not asking what is happening here.'

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