Reconstructing Faith: The Meaning of Easter

What was “the work of the Cross,” and does it matter?

Eric Sentell
Backyard Church
Published in
3 min readMar 29, 2024

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Jesus dying on the Cross doesn’t make sense if you think about it. Why did God need to subject His son to a torturous death to forgive our sins? Why couldn’t God have simply said, as Jesus often did, “Your sins are forgiven”?

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