the-verdict-is-ours-not-god-s

The temptation is to move the violence onto God, as though the Cross were a cosmic settling of accounts. But if the gospel's heart were divine violence it would only repeat the old logic. The verdict is ours, not God's; we are not judged from above but by what we have done to Him. Rests on: [[the-cross-exposes-the-scapegoat-mechanism-instead-of-enacting-it]]