Preaching the cross

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Preaching the cross

What is the teaching or preaching of the cross? [1] A typical short answer is: Jesus died for your sins.

You can already discern, in the context of the discussion on teaching, that there is something missing here. It does not answer the question of "How does the preaching of the cross reveal the invisible Father? Remember, man is separated from God by ignorance: Elohim.

How does the death of Jesus make the Father known if no one learns who Jesus is? [2] [3] How will they know of the culmination of the teaching if they don't learn of the cross? [4] Without the teaching or preaching of the cross, the cross was pointless.
Jesus told his disciples to go into all the world teaching... [5] If you are not making the invisible Father known, then what is your point? What have you decided is more important?
  1. ↑ 1Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
  2. ↑ Joh 10:30 I and [my] Father are one.
  3. ↑ Joh 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
  4. ↑ Ro 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
  5. ↑ Mt 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
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