Think Wink.

Here is BMB’s commentary on the penultimate chapter of Marvel’s SI, not Sports Illustrated but Secret Invasion; which I’m thinking concludes with Norman Osborn, aka the Green Goblin aka William Dafoe’s character in the Spider-Man movies, taking over the Superhuman Reginstration Initiative that oversee’s the US (and now the world) superheros and making sure that they reveal their identities to the US government (and now a very terrible and evil man) so that the heroes can be held accountable. If you want to know more about this, see the Civil War story lines from two years ago. Good stuff. That’s where the “Illumi-naughty” or Evil Illuminati and Dark Reign come in. I’m guessing this from some hints that Bendis drops in this commentary about Iron Man and from Newsarama’s Damn Dirty Skrulls: What We Know Now 15 review of Thunderbolts. Also on the Newsarama page is a page-by-page breakdown of SI 7. Good stuff about my boy New Captain America. Their sponsor couldn’t be more right on this, trust me.

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I was checking my RSS feeder and Honzo linked to a post by Greg Boyd about the atonement. Boyd was reporting on a debate he had just returned from and was mentioned that the nature of the atonement came up. Greg Boyd holds to a position called Christus Victor which he defines in the post as “the view that the main thing Jesus did on Calvary was defeat the devil and free us from his oppression.” Boyd is thinking out loud (or so it seems to me) on how to make Christus Victor compatible with Penal Substiution. If you want to read more about Christus Victor click on the following link (Christus Victor). If you want a good picture of this–although it is more of a picture of the Ransom theory of which Boyd’s view is a modification–see C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Aslan (Jesus) is seen as triumphing over the White Queen (Satan) by his death. This is a part of how the New Covenant portrays the death of Jesus (cf. Colossians 2:13-15; 1 John 3:8; Hebrews 2:14). But to remove the Penal Substitutionary meaning of the cross is a reductionism that one cannot make as I will comment on later. Read more

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