However people might have understood the Scriptures before Jesus went willingly to His own death, the crucifixion showed that God was not and would not be a conquering God, ruling over others as the kingdoms of the world rule, through compulsion and authority. The life and death of Jesus formed the period at the end of the sentence that the rest of the Bible writes: If God is real and we have experienced God, then we are called to be people of peace and justice.
