The Cross Was The Devil's Mousetrap

The cross, Martin Luther wrote, was the devil’s mousetrap. The devil smelled cheese, and wham, felt steel. Thus, we see a little baby lying defenseless in a crib at Bethlehem, and a tortured man hanging utterly derelict on a Roman cross outside Jerusalem. But those who believe that is all there is to it have taken only a surface glance at what is happening, and they have misread what is really going on in the incarnation and the cross.

Look more closely, ask who the baby is and why the tortured man is dying, and you see that everything that is happening is far more than it appears to…