Is our faith in the earthly Jesus of Nazareth or in the crucified and resurrected Christ?
Our faith is in the crucified and resurrected Christ, not in the Jesus of Nazareth of His earthly ministry, although He is one and the same person. The gospel rests on what was revealed after His resurrection and ascension. This crucified and resurrected Christ is the object of faith.
Les explains that the crucified and resurrected Christ becomes the object of our faith, not the Jesus of Nazareth in His earthly ministry, although He is one and the same person. The gospel is based on that which was revealed after His resurrection and ascension. Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, constantly emphasized that Christ did not now just deal with Israel, but the gospel has gone to the whole world. The love of Christ constrains us because one died for all, the whole human race, and all are dead in Adam.
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.