Every day you wake up in a cold, damp cave, trapped in a lie disguised as success. With a mask of self-sufficiency, you step out into a world that demands pretense, while inside there’s only loneliness and emptiness. But what good is it to gain the whole world if in the end you lose your soul?
In the previous entrance, we analyzed the reality that the Jews held a specific expectation regarding the figure of the Anointed One and what the Old Testament says about anointing and those who were anointed. Now, we will seek to understand specifically what the prevailing idea was at the time of Jesus’ arrival, and how
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We have become accustomed to calling our Lord “Jesus Christ,” which is not bad at all. However, in doing so, we have lost sight of the meaning behind what we are saying. It might seem strange, but Christ was not Jesus’ last name. When Peter says to Jesus, “You are the Christ…” (Matt. 16:16), he
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