Untangling Cliché: "Pleading The Blood of Jesus"

The imagery can be pretty compelling: you are guilty.  You stand before a court in which God is judge and jury.  You are accused of being sinful (or, in some versions, being human).

At that point, the theory runs, you have to plead "Not guilty" (and be damned), or "guilty" (and be damned), or "the blood of Jesus."  That is, you are thought to have a third plea.

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