Interesting thought, Kate -- check out 1 Peter 3:18-22 (http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&passage=1+Peter+3%3A18-22&version=NIV) for a New Testament flood/Christ parallel.
In response to infinitarian, nobody in the Bible, including King David (Psalm 22) and the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 53), thought of the Crucifixion as an accident.
As Peter said in the book of Acts, it may have been done by the hands of evil men, but it was God's will and purpose that Christ should suffer and die for the sins of the world.
Also, without the Crucifixion there could be no Resurrection, and it's the Resurrection most of all that was the beginning and is the great hope of the Christian faith. As Paul said, "If Christ has not been raised, you are still in your sins..." and according to him Christians are "more to be pitied than all men" for clinging to a dead leader and a dead faith.
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Date: 2004-11-15 05:07 am (UTC)In response to
As Peter said in the book of Acts, it may have been done by the hands of evil men, but it was God's will and purpose that Christ should suffer and die for the sins of the world.
Also, without the Crucifixion there could be no Resurrection, and it's the Resurrection most of all that was the beginning and is the great hope of the Christian faith. As Paul said, "If Christ has not been raised, you are still in your sins..." and according to him Christians are "more to be pitied than all men" for clinging to a dead leader and a dead faith.