God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial
God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.
Even someone who is an atheist is likely to believe that there was a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years ago who
died on a cross at the hands of the Romans.
What they were not looking for was a savior who would be born as a baby in a manger, grow up in a poor man's home, become a wandering preacher, and finally
die on a cross like any common felon.
We can derive some comfort from George Bernard Shaw's bon mot, «The last
Christian died on the cross,» for there is a certain absolution in realizing that we all fall pitifully short.
In Matthew 27:42, some of the people who were watching Jesus
die on the cross said this: «He saved others; but He can't save Himself!»
And as Jesus told them, his seed, people believing him then, the 12 apostles, that would grow like a mustard seed in to a huge tree... which it did, 33 % of the 7 billion people on the planet believe Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit, performed miracles using the Holy Spirit, and later sent the Holy Spirit to the followers
after dying on the cross and raising again on the 3rd day of being in the hands of sinful men.
Jesus wants a self - confessed criminal guilty of a capital crime, who is
dying on the cross next to him, to be in no doubt that he will shortly be receiving the ultimate VIP welcome.
For the sake of fallen humanity, he emptied himself of his glory, position and power, became a slave for the service of others and
finally died on the cross for the sake of others.
But in describing his faith, Li said he believed «Jesus came to save people from sin, that he
willingly died on the cross, that he rose from the dead and... ascended into heaven,» Judge Alfred Goodwin wrote for the Ninth Circuit that reversed the lower court's ruling.
As a Christian, a Muslim who says that Jesus didn't
actually die on a cross (because God wouldn't let that happen to one of His prophets) is right.
The Mormon god gave the same ten commandments to Moses, had a son named Jesus with a virgin named Mary, and his
son died on a cross for the forgiveness of the worlds sins.
God, in punishing our Original Parent, did it to illustrate how a sinless Christ would one
day die on the cross for others.
Such an idea might seem scandalous to most Christians today, but this idea is no more scandalous to us than the idea to the first century Jewish person of the
Messiah dying on a cross.
that whosoever believeth in him should not perishbut have eternal life (he's god — he makes the rules - he could have done this without the
whole dieing on the cross thing)
(New Testament) Whay did Christ
die on the cross anyway, if the old way was good enough??? When Paul speaks of the law he means anything that we should must or ought be doing.
3 Jesus did not
die on the cross Surah 4:157 in the Koran denies that Jesus was killed by crucifixion, but states that it was only «made to appear so».
Even when He
hung dying on the cross, He was recognized by His enemies as being the chosen one of God (Luke 23:35).
Phrases with «to die on the cross»