 the cross."</b></font></blockquote>
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Notice how carefully the apostle links together the reconciling work of
Christ and his deity. Jesus had to be God to do what he did! At the Chicago
Conference on Biblical Application which I mentioned last week I was
thrilled to hear Dr. Bruce Waltke make an impassioned plea that we who are
working with these great themes of Scripture find some way to reduce these
theological statements to contemporary terms, because, as he put it, "the
world is lost without a sense