This way of seeing the relationship between the two testaments has an important effect upon how the life and death of Jesus are seen. It easily and naturally, if not inevitably, leads to the inference that things had to happen this way. These events were foreknown, foreordained, are part of God’s “plan of salvation.” They happened through divine destiny and even necessity. Divine destiny: God planned it this way. Divine necessity: it had to happen this way. And this often connects to the substitutionary sacrificial understanding of Jesus’s death as well: Jesus’s death was foreordained and
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