[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by aron

Acts 2:24 (NIV)But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.

God delivered Christ from death. This is our hope, our faith, our strength. It is the central point of the NT. Without this, what do we have? Yet Lee couldn't, or wouldn't, see it.

Well it's good that Lee found certain verses. Please bear with the rest of us if we can also find Christ in certain verses. Like having clean hands, etc. Being righteous. Being delivered from the power death.

It seems more than passing strange that Lee read Christ so broadly, liberally, and generously elsewhere, but here read Christ so narrowly. You'd think it would be the opposite, if anything. Certainly the invitation via apostolic precedent was there. But no. The apostle has spoken. No Christ in God's delight, in clean hands, in obedience. . . so then who? Nobody, says Lee. None are good. If that is so, then who died on the cross for us?

Death was not the enemy David was speaking of.