Jesus was no whipping boy or scapegoat. There’s far more going on here than punishment which happened when He took away our sin (which was both the offense and the point source of all our guilt and shame). Here’s the key: we don’t just start with a clean slate, as good news as that is. […]
Now, whether you look at the Hebrew language or the Greek language of the Bible, the very same word for sin is, at times, also translated sin offering. Doesn’t make sense, right? From a purely human perspective, sin cannot be a sin offering. But from God’s viewpoint, all our iniquity (sin) was laid upon Jesus […]
As I continue to ponder whether Jesus experienced shame, there is no denying what the Apostle Paul was careful to describe: “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) Jesus had no sin. That’s the easy part. […]
There will never be such a lasting and consequential failure as that of Adam and Eve in Eden when a single bite of fruit from the forbidden tree plunged all humanity into guilt and shame. Nothing we can do will be able to cover our guilt and relieve our shame because it all goes back […]
