It's not like the people He came to
love nailed Him to a cross.
Not exact matches
And
to live by his words he showed that even if they tortured him and
nailed him
to a
cross, he still had no hate towards his enemies, only
love.
an all -
loving God... would not need
to nail a man they called Jesus
to a
cross just
to «save us from sins».
But precisely for this reason it is difficult
to know whether we accept this
cross in faith, hope and
love to our salvation, or whether we only bear it protesting secretly, because we can not free ourselves from it but are
nailed to it like the robber on the left of Jesus, who cursed his fate and blasphemed the crucified Lord by his side.
It certainly is logical and rational for one
to believe that a God who is
Love would never
nail us
to a
cross.
It is a sick world where a dead person
nailed to a
cross is a sign of peace and
love.
He has «
nailed it
to the
cross» that we might see both our guilt and His even greater mercy; the earnestness of His holy will and the even greater earnestness of His fatherly
love.