Not exact matches
God the Father turned His face away from His Son when He
suffered on the
cross (which was the worst type of
death, reserved for the worst sinners in those days), when Jesus carried the curse of all of mankinds sins (past, present and future) and wrath of God because of those sins.
Let me get this straight... in a nutshell — you ask me to believe a man
suffered a horrible
death on a
cross to save me from my sins, sin brought into the world when some lady talked a guy into biting into an apple?
It is only through Christ's atoning
death on the
cross, a
death suffered on my behalf, that I have been saved.
It is sin that makes us feel separated from God, and this is the feeling Jesus expressed
on the
cross, and is one reason Jesus went to the
cross — to take our sin and bear it away into
death so that we can see that God has not left us, has not abandoned us, and has not forsaken us, but has fully entered into our pain, our
suffering, and even into our sin, so that He might show us how much He loves and cares for us.
Spelling this out in more detail, Moltmann argues that the Father grieves over the
death of his Son
on the
cross: «The Son
suffers dying, the Father
suffers the
death of the Son.
It emphasizes the cruciform nature of God, that God is most fully revealed through the
suffering and
death of Jesus
on the
cross.
And nowhere in Scripture can we behold the reality of Jesus» sacrificial
death and the anguish of His separation from His Father more clearly and penetratingly than in His
suffering on the
cross because of sin.
Until the time foretold when her
Suffering would end The one true
cross will appear
on earth All will see it in a single moment - all will wonder The
cross will fall The
cross will rise To unlock the Sacrament And bring forth a new age Through it's merciful
death
The obedience of his human will through
suffering and
death on the
cross restores our adoption as children of the Father.
So Peter with an extraordinary completeness presents us with the Christ who pre-existed in history and before history began (1:10, 11, 20), the Christ who came to this earth and who
suffered and died for men
on the
cross (1:16 - 22; 2:24), the Christ who descended into Hades and so tasted the full bitterness of
death (3:19), the Christ who rose from
death (1:3, 21; 3:21), the Christ who ascended into glory (1:11; 3:22), and the Christ who will come again (1:7, 13; 4:7; 5:1, 4).
It was this kind of love, the love that
suffers out of love, that was revealed in the passion and
death of Jesus
on the
cross.»
Only Christianity of all the world's major religions teaches that God came to Earth in Jesus Christ and became subject to
suffering and
death himself, dying
on the
cross to take the punishment our sins deserved, so that someday he can return to Earth to end all
suffering without ending us.
No one can take upon themselves the
suffering that God faced when a part of his very being faced
death on the
cross.
Three of these were in British Columbia, including the mauling of two sisters by an 80 pound Rottweiler
cross which resulted in one of the women being taken to hospital in critical condition after
suffering more than 100 bites, there was the
death of an elderly native woman due to a dog attack, and in downtown Vancouver, a dog described as a pit bull
cross attacked and killed a five - month - old puppy, who was
on leash, while its owner watched in horror.