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What We Get Wrong About the Blood of Jesus

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date April 14, 2019
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While it might seem gross and barbaric, all Christians confess that salvation is through the blood of Jesus (Eph. 1:7). But what does that really mean? Does God demand death? Is the blood a symbol of something else? Does it speak of a price paid? Or a gift given? And what is this price? This […]

Tags Atonement, Blood, cross, God, Jesus, redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation

The Evangelical Preaching of the Cross: The Blood

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date March 30, 2018
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Focusing on blood is tough for us modern people—especially sacrificial blood. We don’t really have any category for that. And yet, if we are to celebrate our redemption in Christ as we did in the previous post on the Evangelical Preaching of the Cross: Redemption, then we must affirm that—in some way— our redemption is […]

Tags Atonement, Blood, cross, Good Friday, Jesus, Sacrifice