Most of us were handed a courtroom: a holy God, a guilty defendant, a debt that had to be paid on a substitute so the books would balance. Millions have loved Yeshua sincerely inside that frame, and I am not here to question their love. I am here to question the frame, because it is not the story the Hebrew Scriptures actually tell. The Hebrew story is not first a courtroom. It is a Garden, a rupture, and a long walk home.
This week I published the longest and most important piece I have ever written for the Table. It follows one thread from Eden to Revelation. The Garden was direct relationship, a Father walking with His children in the cool of the day. The Fall broke it. Every covenant after pointed back toward it. And the Hebrew Savior came to restore it, because only He could.
Along the way it names, simply and by name, the frameworks that buried the story: Augustine’s stain in the blood, Anselm’s feudal ledger, Calvin’s courtroom, Darby’s ticket to heaven. Not one of them is in the text. They were all man made overlay’s. And what is laid over needs to be lifted off.
It also says the one thing that took me several years to find the exact words for.
You cannot have the New Covenant of Jeremiah 31 unless God Himself comes down and takes the human side of it. The incarnation is not Greek metaphysics bolted onto a Hebrew text. It is the only way the covenant could ever be cut.
Both. Because the covenant required both.
Read the whole thing.
It is the piece the rest of the Table now organizes around.
Read He Did It Himself:
https://sergiodesoto.com/posts/he-did-it-himself
Always be Berean.
Sergio
Have you ever had the quiet, persistent sense that something is just beyond your fingertips? You know it’s there, yet no matter how hard you look, you can’t quite see it. Sergio, this comment/question needs no response.