"if Jesus is the Son of God, then God changed—you could say that God converted.
The distant, unnameable, vengeful Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible becomes
the approachable “Father” who washes away all our sins. As both Jack
Miles and Harold Bloom have suggested, the Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible
cannot also be the father of Jesus Christ; either Christ represents an
almost incomprehensible break with that world or Yahweh committed
suicide on the Cross."
The Radical Origins of Christianity:Emmanuel Carrère’s “The Kingdom” explores how a tiny sect became a global religion.
James Wood
The New Yorker
July 10 & 17, 2017
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