| What Dostoyevsky’s Prostitute Can Teach Us About the Cross
Crime, punishment, and Christ's easy yoke.
Mark Galli
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cross of Christ has sometimes been compared to the electric chair or
other forms of execution, meaning we are wise to remember that it was an
instrument of death in the ancient world. The cross is also often used
to prompt us to give ourselves sacrificially for him and others. But
comparisons to other forms of execution can miss the deeper biblical
teaching about the cross. And the cross is much more than an object
lesson in how we should live. It’s very shape, it turns out, is not
incidental ...
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Monday, March 26, 2018
Crime, punishment, and Christ's easy yoke
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