What Dostoyevsky’s Prostitute Can Teach Us About the Cross | CT

 

This article is by Mark Galli compares and contrasts the love of God and wrath of God in the work of Christ on the cross.  KS

 

The 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 to its deeper biblical meaning nor to the very nature of God who hung there.  For the rest of the article go here