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Jesus as the Son of Man

                                                              THE ARC OF THE BIBLE:                                                    FROM GENESIS TO JESUS AS THE SON OF MAN Jesus said:  “For the Son of Man himself did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”(Mark 10:45 .  Matthew 20:28).   Who is the Son of Man? Why is a ransom necessary? To whom is it payable, and in what currency? What is being held hostage, and why? The answers to these questions provide a lever to pry open the meaning of the Bible. Jesus perceived the arc of a storyline contained in the Old Testament, and he believed his destiny lay in the fulfillment of the Scriptures through his role as the Son of Man. The following is what I believe he understood about the teachings found in the Old Testament.            GENESIS   In Genesis, Yahweh God, the Judeo-Christian deity, created heaven and earth, planted a garden in Eden , and placed there the man (Adam) He had created to cultiv
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Design Arguments for the Existence of God

Design Arguments for the Existence of God Design arguments are empirical arguments for the existence of  God . These arguments typically, though not always, proceed by attempting to identify various empirical features of the world that constitute evidence of intelligent design and inferring God's existence as the best explanation for these features. Since the concepts of design and purpose are closely related, design arguments are also known as  teleological arguments , which incorporates "telos," the Greek word for "goal" or "purpose." Design arguments typically consist of (1) a premise that asserts that the material universe exhibits some empirical property  F ; (2) a premise (or sub-argument) that asserts (or concludes) that  F  is persuasive evidence of intelligent design or purpose; and (3) a premise (or sub-argument) that asserts (or concludes) that the best or most probable explanation for the fact that the material universe exhibits  F  is
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