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Hi...love your blog.

Wouldn't the resurrection of Jesus Christ have caused a more epistemological crisis than the crucifixion? The crucifixion of a disruptive leader was rather common in that time and place as was the idea of sacrifice for sins. But the resurrection of an influential spiritual leader would have brought on a radically different way of knowing the world, no?

2 Co 5:16 definitely comes to life for me from that perspective.

The cross, a very cruel yet highly significant way for Christ to die, was still necessary for resurrection to happen (...unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds, John 12:24).

Maybe this idea is a little too experimental?

-Wilfred Ferwerda

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