Walter Wink - Engaging the Powers, p 110God surely anticipated that a person like Jesus would be killed by an order established on violence, but God did not kill Jesus, or require his death, or manipulate others into sacrificing him. God may have found a way to triumph over this crime, but God did not cause it. Jesus was killed by the definite plan and aforethought of the Powers, as the New Testament writers clearly state.
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