 I was never taught that he would die as an atonement for our sins, because that's not part of Jewish life or thinking, but it is part of the Bible. And so when I began meeting Jesus through the New Testament and comparing that with the Old Testament prophecies, like Isaiah 53, Micah 5-2 about Bethlehem, and over and over and over again, I saw a different kind of Jesus than some kind of weak person.