Death: Our Enemy and Teacher
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Death: Our Enemy and Teacher
In Christ and the Meaning of Life, German theologian Helmut Thielicke tells the story of a young [soldier] who reached out to pick a bouquet of lilacs and uncovered the half-decayed body of [another] soldier beneath the bush: "He drew back in horror, not because he had never seen a dead man before—he drew back because of the screaming contradiction between the dead man and the flowering bush."
Thielicke notes that the soldier's reaction would have been different ...
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- Adam
; - Atonement;
- Calvary;
- Christ;
- Christ, Anointed One;
- Christ, death of;
- Christ, sacrifice of;
- Christ, substitute for humanity;
- Christ, suffering;
- Christ, Suffering Servant;
- Cross;
- Cross of Christ;
- Crucifixion;
- Death;
- Easter;
- Eve;
- Fall of Humanity;
- Funerals;
- Good Friday;
- Good news;
- Gospel;
- Grace;
- Hope;
- Jesus Christ;
- Love of Christ;
- Mercy;
- Messiah;
- Nature;
- Peace;
- Redeemer;
- Redemption;
- Resurrection;
- Resurrection of Christ;
- Salvation;
- Savior, Christ only
- Genesis 3:15
; - Isaiah 9:1-7;
- Isaiah 52:1-53:12;
- Matthew 26:17-28:20;
- Mark 14:12-16:20;
- Luke 22:7-24:43;
- John 3:16;
- John 11:25-26;
- John 14:1-6;
- John 14:7-11;
- Romans 3:21-26;
- Romans 5;
- Romans 6;
- Romans 7;
- Romans 8:35-39;
- 1 Corinthians 15;
- 2 Corinthians 5:1-10;
- Ephesians 1:3-14;
- Ephesians 2:1-10;
- Philippians 2:1-11;
- Colossians 1:15-23;
- Colossians 2:6-15;
- 1 Timothy 1:15;
- Hebrews 1:1-4;
- Hebrews 2:5-18;
- Hebrews 4:14-5:10;
- Hebrews 7:1-8:13;
- Hebrews 9;
- Hebrews 10;
- 1 Peter 1:3-12;
- 1 Peter 2:4-12;
- 1 Peter 3:13-22;
- 1 John 2:1-2
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