Judas was a hero because he was willing to
take the blame for Jesus» fall even though God and Jesus both wanted Jesus to die.
Not exact matches
Blaming Mud - slingers may look for who to nail, but Reflectors look for ways to be like Jesus who took the nail instead of blaming
Blaming Mud - slingers may look
for who to nail, but Reflectors look
for ways to be like
Jesus who
took the nail instead of
blaming blaming anyone.
But unlike other Jewish preachers,
Jesus offered a way of salvation: he would
take the
blame for those who repent, and thereby save them from hell.
have you ever heard the story of when
jesus was a kid playing with his friend and his friend fell off the roof and died... everyone in the village
blamed jesus for his death,
jesus not wanting to
take blame that wasn't his brings the boy back from the dead and askes him «did i push you off roof?»
We aren't
blaming Jesus or making Him
take the fall
for us — He gave His life
for us.
It was easy
for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of
blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I
took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without
Jesus.
But often these passages in the Old Testament will state that the instructions were given by God, and if we read these texts in the light of
Jesus, then we understand that although God was not telling them to do such things, He nevertheless inspired them to write what they did so that He could
take the
blame for their sinful actions.
In other words, it is a governing rule that just as
Jesus took the sin of the world upon Himself so that He might bear the sin and shame
for all, so also God did this in the Old Testament by
taking the
blame for the sinful actions and behaviors of the people who lived during that time.