Sentences with phrase «willingly went to the cross»

When God allows — even inspires — people to write about Him as if He were a mass murderer who slaughters women and children, He is doing this for the same reason Jesus willingly went to the cross.

Not exact matches

He then healed the mans ear and went willingly to the cross instead of using his power to slay everyone and escape.

Jesus went willingly to the cross, not because a blood sacrifice was necessary to pay the penalty for sin, but because going to the cross unmasked the scapegoat mechanism, revealed the violence inherent within the heart of men, exposed the myth of redemptive violence, and brought an end to the war that men had waged on God for centuries.

When Jesus goes to the cross, while it is true that men put Him there, they could not have done so had Jesus not gone to the cross willingly.

yes, to die a tragic death on a cross, but He went willingly because He knew that the human race would never measure up no matter how hard we tried.

When given the chance to call ten thousand legions of angels to His defense, He instead chose to go willingly to the cross (Matt 26:53).