Because of God
crucifying God, EVERYONE has the option to buy in.
The mission was to save man from God
my crucifying God thereby releasing man from sin that was placed on man by God, it there is still sin in the world after more that 2000 years, I'd say, that is a failed mission, if you do not agree please tell me how I am wrong.
In blaming God and finally
crucifying God, Satan thought he was winning; but the death blow he dealt upon Jesus turned out to be his own.
The sheering deniability of commoner low life atheists dare to make rude and crude nostalgias of blatant misgivings against those who have little education regarding the relative whereabouts of God's kingdom domains but nevertheless they have faith in God's physically born son who lived among us and was crucified due our passing generations wanting to free Barabbas from the cross thereby
crucifying God's son, Christ our Lord Jesus!
It's sometimes said that people who worship
a crucified God must be anti-body.
Only
a crucified God can bear the fullness of truth.
Are you familiar with Jürgen Moltmann's book,
The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology?
We enter into the presence of
the crucified God.
By all means, treat and respect these people are artists, but don't make them into gods — because
we crucify our gods.
In
The Crucified God (originally, 1972), an intentionally provocative title, Moltmann saw clearly that traditional Christian thought tried to resolve the tension between God's love and God's self - contained immutability by championing the Stoic elevation of apatheia as a way of characterizing a divine love that is no in way affected by the recipient of that love.
As I have come to see the world through the light of Jesus Christ,
the crucified God, this crucivision lens has helped me understand life, Scripture, and theology more clearly, and it has helped me grow in love for others more deeply.
The image of the «
crucified God» also makes it clear to faith that the sufferings of the world and its evolutionary struggle are not solitary and ultimately unredeemable.
Darrell L. Guder (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1980); Jürgen Moltmann,
The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God (New York: Harper and Row, 1981), and God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985); Robert Jenson, The Triune Identity (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982).
CG — Jürgen Moltmann,
The Crucified God, translated by R. A. Wilson and John Bowden.
I begin with a brief summary of Jürgen Moltmann's understanding of the Trinity, as presented in his recent book,
The Crucified God.
Nor was it just the executioners, enemies of God, and idolaters who
crucified God in Jesus Christ; it was also the champions of Yahweh, the knights, the crusaders, Elijah slaying the priests of Baal and Jehu extirpating the house of Ahab.
An example of this style comes again from Harold O. J. Brown in his review of Jürgen Moltmann's
The Crucified God (Christianity Today, March 14, 1975):
The quotation from
The Crucified God in Chapter Five shows how fully and profoundly he did so.
For example, the two concluding chapters of
The Crucified God deal respectively with «Ways towards the psychological liberation of man» and «Ways towards the political liberation of man».43 Although Moltmann is very sensitive to the socio - historical context of psychiatry, it does not seem that he wants to subsume the psychological entirely under the heading of the political.
«The supermarket heavens of my new neighbors,» Jan writes from his suburban apartment in Washington, D.C., «which draw a veil over suffering and therefore make no sense of it or of anything else, take me back to those beautiful, terrible days, when our dear city turned in its sleep and its dreams were dreams of
a crucified God.»
If one adopts a process concept of God and God's relationship to the world, the ambiguity of the world loses its character as a divine deception and becomes» an expression of the divine struggle for self - disclosure, a struggle powerfully symbolized in the paradox of
a crucified God.
1982); Jürgen Moltmann,
The Crucified God, trans.
But the God in question is the God of certain philosophers, not the God of history and revelation; certainly not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and most certainly not
the crucified God incarnate.
The German «theologian of hope» Jürgen Moltmann, many decades later, gave grudging recognition of his dependence on these early pioneers, developing his pivotal
The Crucified God (orig., 1972) without explicit indication of the derivative quality of many of his key insights, and only acknowledging his quoting of Horace Bushnell, in his later The Trinity and the Kingdom (orig, 1980), in footnotes.
Moltmann pays particular heed to the plight of the terminally ill and the irremediably retarded as representing the depths of that hopeless suffering in which
the crucified God becomes the bearer of a significant promise.
Jesus has taught us to act differently, to be human in such a way that we will no longer
crucify God in our midst.
The image of the «
crucified God» is central to Christian teaching, though perhaps it has not often been taken seriously.2 Instead «God» has been ensconced, in classical theologies, as omnipotently immune to suffering and tragedy.
In this sense, Christian theology that focuses on the «
crucified God» also presents the vision of universal beauty incipient in the teachings of and about Jesus.
As Jürgen Moltmann recently reminded us in
The Crucified God, the question of how and to what extent God the Father actually experiences the death of Christ is in no sense settled once and for all.
I'm, in part, bouncing off of Moltmann's
The Crucified God here, and he affirms universal salvation, so it's not really an either / or.
Thus it was that I came to the next stage in my theological development, reflected in
The Crucified God [Harper & Row, 1974].
How often do the words of our public prayer direct folk away from
the crucified God to an anonymous Supreme Being, to the tribal deity of our institution or our nation, to the totem of our status quo?
’16 «On the cross», writes Philip Berryman in his summary of Latin American Liberation Theology, «God takes on human suffering, becomes himself «
a crucified God.»»
The mystery of the cross conveys, once again, the mystery of «
a crucified God,» 19 wherefore the topic of love enters the discussion.
Not exact matches
Two Catholics who have never met can nevertheless go together on crusade or pool funds to build a hospital because they both believe that
God was incarnated in human flesh and allowed Himself to be
crucified to redeem our sins.
At the time, not even His disciples knew of Jesus» dual — nature, or that He would be
crucified as atonement for
God's chosen people.
For this reason people like yourself
crucified my Lord and Savior and may
God forgive you for your false accusations (Matthew 5:10 - 12).
If this was a white president, they would vilify and
crucify him for going against the will of
God.
You might want to start there, since no other
god was brutually beaten and
crucified on your behalf, so that you may have eternal life.
-- prove the existence of your or any
god, — prove that The Babble is the word of any
god and — prove that a man known as jesus was
crucified * and * was resurrected
2Cor 13:4 For indeed he was
crucified by reason of weakness, but he lives because of
God's power.
Christianity is not a religion is a relationship with Christ who died
crucified on the cross and rose again proving that he is
God.
Then
God said you will go forth and and you will die for our sins be beaten, spit on denied,, betrayed and then
crucified.
Instead of entering hell in triumphant splendor so as to rescue the Israelites of old whose faith was awaiting completion, Balthasar envisions the
crucified Son of
God as a depth charge of divine life tossed into the abyss of dissolution.
And Luther answers: If it is really
God, then He will
crucify and torture you as He did Christ, your pattern, and thus leave you no reason to cling to Him except for His own sweet sake.
This is great, but if you really want to see what what
God's love looks like, look to Jesus dying on a cross for the sins of the world, including the sins of those who are whipping his back and legs until his skin is gone and then laying that back on a rough and splintery wooden cross to
crucify him, and continuing the torture until he's unrecognizable as a human being.
Where the critical point in his earlier theology of grace is
God's
crucifying contradiction of sinful human nature, here the point on which everything hinges is the authority of Christ the Savior, exercised concretely in the sacramental signs of the Church.
1 PETER 1:20 Despite
God's failed experiment in the Garden of Eden, the mass execution of Noah's flood and the final solution of Christ's sacrifice, Jesus was predestined to be
crucified all along.
And then a unmarried Jewish girl got knocked - up by a ghost and delivered a man
god who was
crucified, died, then came back 3 days later as a mellowed out zombie with words of love and encouragement?
I have previously posted the example of Jesus as well as the «two thieves» being
crucified beside Him as kind of an example of discussing
God and faith at the last moment of life.