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When God speaks through the prophets about sacrifice he treats it as the expression of a human need he tolerates rather than as anything he desires.

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Our online study of Fleming Rutledge’s The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ continued last night in my absence. I have had her book at the front of my mind as I travel through Turkey on pilgrimage. From the Hagia Sophia to the carved-out churches of Cappa…

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