As such, Jesus’s preaching centered on the call to immediate conversion, the forgiveness of sins, and the establishment of a fundamentally new relationship between God and humanity. However, this preaching involved an implicit claim to Jesus’s unity with the Father in that the eschatological message of the kingdom involved an audacious claim to authority. For example, the Gospel accounts make it clear that Jesus’s act of forgiving sins and subverting the commands of the Mosaic Law in the name of the kingdom were incredibly upsetting to the established religious order because only God had the
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