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- From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
- Subject: Re: What did Judas betray?
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.160423.29721@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:04:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.061549.983@netcom.com> sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
- >Well, if you think that a "crucified Messiah" is a problem, a "Messiah
- >hanged on a tree" is a complete impossibility.
- >
- > "for anyone hung on a tree is under God's curse"
- > -Deut. 21:23
- >
- >How can somebody possibly be the Messiah if they are under God's curse?
- >But change the story a bit, blame it on the Romans, and THIS problem
- >nicely goes away!
-
- The cross is explicitely interpreted as a tree in the New Testament,
- and Messiah's hanging on the tree is shown to be redemptive and
- substitutionary - he became acursed for our sakes, that we might be
- redeemed from the curse which we were under (Galatians 3:13).
-
- No attempt is made to dodge this issue in the scriptures. You are
- barking up the wrong tree. ;^)
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