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For Paul, as Bultmann puts it, the cross is God's judgment, God's liberating judgment, of everything human. As such, the cross is a historic occurrence: a fact of the past whose historic significance is to be the liberating judgment of God. The cross, then, is not a symbol, a figure for expressing an eternal idea. Rather, the naked fact of Jesus' cross signifies for each person the question whether she or he will surrender her- or himself in her or his self-contrived security, thereby also giving up all "boasting," and whether the cross will thus be for her or him the decisive fact of salvation.

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