9/8/08 YOU NOTICE MOUW IS CRITICAL OF SOCRATES FRIENDLY PERCEPTION OF DEATH BECAUSE MOUW DOESN'T BELIEVE IN SOUL. MOUW'S MISCONCEPTION OF JESUS' AGONY ON THE CROSS as DEATH BEING A THREAT OF DESTRUCTION OF THE WHOLE PERSON..".....and, sweats drops of blood in Gethsemane as he pleads with the Father to allow the cup of suffering to pass from him. And then on the cross he cries out in agony over his experience of abandonment. The underlying issue here, says Cullmann, has to do with radically differing conceptions of the meaning of death. For Socrates, death is the welcome release of the spiritual from the physical. For Jesus, death is an enemy that threatens the destruction of the whole person..."
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“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us…”