Daily Meditations on the Bible / We stand with Israel
… through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Summary: Paul’s expression of being “crucified” to something is unusual. The reason he uses this linguistic framework is because our flesh is like a drug.
Continue reading “Galatians 6:14b – Experiments”
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross…
Experimenting is an age-old way of testing something to see if it is true. For example, when somebody says, “Try this, you’ll like it!” you might believe them or you might not. When I was twelve, my uncle handed me an oyster and gave me that line. It tasted terrible! “Try it again,” he said. I did. It didn’t taste any better the second time. So he took the oyster, tried it, and spit it out. “No wonder,” he said, “it’s rotten!” So I still don’t know if I like oysters or not, but I do know that I don’t like rotten ones.
There is another kind of experiment that can be helpful. It is called a thought experiment. In this kind of experiment, we imagine a situation and then ask ourselves questions about what we see. I think it might be helpful to do an experiment like this to help understand today’s passage.
Continue reading “1 Peter 2:24 (a) — Innocence Found”