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Relatedly, 21st century stories are FILLED with extraordinary / fantasy (arguably a key component of human stories throughout time) though my theory is that people who are especially drawn to this are those who know there must be something more to this life. Who seek miracles but do not know where to look. Misplaced search for the God who created heaven and earth; unfathomable; One beyond human understanding.

People’s disbelief about Jesus’ resurrection to the point of making theories to try to “explain” it. Why follow a God who can only be “explained” by human logic and reality.

Jesus’ last words on the cross
- John 19:26-30
- Luke 23: 29-46
- Mark 15: 33-34
- Matthew 27: 45-46

Scapegoat

““You have to get up every day and seek to live in such a way as to be worthy of that kind of effort and sacrifice” (Major Duckworth on her fellow soldiers saving her). That is the power of sacrificial love. And that is exactly what the cross of Christ is meant to inspire us to do. We are to look at the cross of Jesus and say, “I have to strive to live in such a way as to be worthy of that sacrifice.”"

“Our whole culture is moving in one direction and we find ourselves drawn in doing things we know are not right. Things we know are against God’s will.”

“In a country where you will never be arrested for being a Christian, where you will never be put to death for following Jesus, are you willing, in the face of peer pressure, to be counted as one of His followers?”

Mark 14:62
- “I am”: also a reference to Exodus 3:14 (Moses inquires of the burning bush and God answers “I am who I am”
- “…Son of Man.. coming with the clouds”: Daniel 7:13-14
- “…right hand of Power…”: Psalm 110:1-4(Jesus as prophetic heir of this promise; also Melchizedek)

And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.” - Mark 14:62

“Not my will but Yours be done.” Luke 22:42