Hi there my wire religion friends welcome to another great episode of the why

religion podcast I'm Anthony sweat from B.O.U. Church history and doctrine I want

to kick off this episode by asking a few specific questions about the

atonement of Jesus Christ. First of all let me ask you this if you had to

picture the atonement of the Savior where do you place it what image comes to

your mind. Secondly if you had to hang a painting in your own private home or

personal office space of either a painting that depicted the crucifixion of

Jesus Christ or one that depicted Christ suffering in the Garden of

Gesemini which would you choose and why? Well without being able to hear your

answers it's likely that for both the first and the second question more

listeners imagined and chose a picture of Jesus in Gesemini than they did

of Jesus on the cross at Calvary. If so it would be consistent with research

that I recently did along with my dear friend and colleague John Hilton the

third we surveyed 853 B.O.U. students and showed them three images of the

crucifixion and three images of Gesemini to help mitigate for bias and

artistic expression we chose one painting of Gesemini and one of Calvary

produced by each of the same three artists representing different time periods

and different styles. In total listen to this 97% of the students in the survey

chose an image of Gesemini. Now what's interesting is that in a similar survey

with students at a Protestant Christian University showing them the exact same

images and asking them the exact same question 34% of them chose an image of

the crucifixion and in other words they were ten times more likely than

...