What Jesus’ Crucifixion Accomplished For Us: A Theological Examination of the Purpose and Meaning of Jesus’ Death
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Overview
Everyone knows of the crucifixion of Jesus, the most significant event in human history. But how many know the true purpose and meaning of his crucifixion? Why did the Father send his Son to the cross? Why did Jesus have to die? What did his death accomplish? This book answers these and other questions. Imagine bearing the weight of every sin committed by every person who has ever lived. Or think of how Jesus’ death restored our severed relationship with God. And his death accomplished something truly amazing. It was the deciding blow against Satan, ending his long war with God. These and other reasons for the Savior’s death may not be the usual theology textbook reasons, yet each one explored is both biblical and personal. Readers will find themselves in these pages, just as they find themselves in God’s redemptive story that played out one Friday at a place called Calvary.
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- Explains the biblical and personal reasons behind the Father sending his Son to the cross.
- Details how Jesus’ death restored the severed relationship between humanity and God.
- Describes the crucifixion as the deciding blow that ended Satan’s long war with God.
The historical event of the crucifixion is of enormous importance, and the reality of the resurrection even more so. But why? Why was the death of Jesus so important? And what did it mean? Jesus died on a Roman cross, to be sure, but what changed? What did it accomplish? Kroll probes this question in a deeply satisfying way, first by defining the biblical concept of atonement and then inquiring into what at first strikes us as a strange teaching: the curse of the cross. Why is being hanged on a cross (or tree) a ‘curse’? What does that mean? And how can Jesus becoming a curse benefit humanity in any way? . . . Readers will appreciate the theological nuance combined with perceptive exegesis that makes every effort to be fair to the sacred text. Kroll’s wealth of knowledge, formed over decades of study and teaching, is in evidence on every page.
——From the foreword by Craig A. Evans