We continue our Lenten series on Fleming Rutledge’s outstanding book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (2015).
We are continuing within chapter 4 on ‘The Gravity of Sin’ and, in particular, Rutledge’s discussion of what Sin actually is.
That ‘Christ died for our sins’ (1 Cor. 15:3) is the core of the gospel.
But what is Sin? And why did Jesus have to die to somehow ‘deal’ with Sin?
This is a big chapter. Again, it’s worth repeating that these blogs only give a flavour of the book and do not do justice to Rutledge’s prose and argument.…
