Theologies - Clover

H. Death of Christ
1. Prominent theme :
Luke 24:27, 44-46
"And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them
what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself...
44 He said to them, 'This is what I told you while I was still with you:
Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses,
the Prophets and the Psalms.' 45 Then he opened their minds so they could
understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, 'This is what is written: The
Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,'"
2. Incarnational purpose :
Matthew 20:28
" just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve,
and to give His life as a ransom for many."
Hebrews 2:14 (NLT)
"Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and
blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human
being could he die, and only by dying could He break the power of the
devil, who had the power of death."
3. Gospel Centerpiece :
1 Corinthians 15:1-3 (NLT)
"Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good
News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you
still stand firm in it. 2 It is this Good News that saves you if you
continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course,
you believed something that was never true in the first place.
3 I passed on to you what was most important and what had
also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the
Scriptures said."
4. See also "Soteriology Part 1 : The Doctrine of Salvation"
(Session Seven)
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