The Wood Between the Worlds Quotes

“When Jesus prayed, “Father, forgive them,” what was forgiven? Everything. Not only the betrayal committed by Judas; not only the murder committed by Barabbas; not only the false accusations leveled by Caiaphas; not only the unjust sentence handed down by Pontius Pilate; not only the Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus; not only the jeering crowd who mocked Jesus, but everything! Every sin, every transgression, every act of idolatry, every deed of injustice, every stone-age murder, every space-age iniquity, every notorious crime, every hidden sin—it was all forgiven. On Good Friday all the sins of the world became a single sin that it might be forgiven once and forever. This is what makes Good Friday good!”
― Brian Zahnd, The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross - Library Edition

“On the cross we encounter a God who would rather die than kill his enemies.”
― Brian Zahnd, The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross - Library Edition

“Three trillion trees.
They came to be
on the third day of creation.
That double-blessed day
of verdant goodness.

Three trillion trees,
one became the wood
upon which the son of God was hung.
A tree created on the third day.

The third day.
The day of three trillion trees.

And on the third day of new creation,
the stone was rolled away.
On the third day,
the gardener walked again in the garden.
On the third day,
the first born emerged from a cocoon called death.
On the third day
a new world was born.

There is the world that was,
and the world to come,
and between those two worlds
is the wood
upon which the son of God was hung.”
― Brian Zahnd, The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross - Library Edition