The central Christian problem in this lecture is why Jesus had to die: Paul ties it to original sin and forgiveness, but the later doctrine that Jesus is God makes divine self-sacrifice conceptually puzzling.
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Crucifixion
The central Christian problem in this lecture is why Jesus had to die: Paul ties it to original sin and forgiveness, but the later doctrine that Jesus is God makes divine self-sacrifice conceptually puzzling.
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Dante's answer, as Jiang presents it, is that God sacrifices himself because every other path falls short of justice: the self-sacrifice both proves love and teaches humans remorse.
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"What did God create us? What is our responsibility to God? Okay? And the last question is, how can we best worship God? Meaning,..."
"And because we disobeyed God, God had no choice but to banish us from the Garden of Eden. Okay? And so, why did Jesus..."
"time of a man named Tertullian, who lived about the second century, he argued for the Holy Trinity, which is that God, Jesus, and..."
"the power to offer satisfaction by himself we want to kill God that was the original sin we wanted to eat that fruit become..."
"so i'm going to use a metaphor to explain this idea it it's a very it's not a great metaphor but i think this..."
"eve i don't really love her it doesn't make sense that's a paradox here that's a conflict and so what i choose to do..."
"...thing we know. The third thing that we know is the crucifixion, okay? So we know that the Romans crucified Jesus. We don't know..."
"...all right so uh this is an ai depiction of the crucifixion crucifixion of jesus jesus is in the middle and as you can..."
"...is Plato's Allegory of the Cave. The second story is the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. The third story is the second coming of..."
"crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, it's interesting because it is actually a reimagining of Plato's Allegory of the Cave because Jesus was this truth..."
"...power of these three stories, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the crucifixion of Jesus, the second coming of Jesus, it's really helping us answer..."
"...talk about is, if it is true that this story, the crucifixion of Jesus and the second coming, is such a powerful story, then..."
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