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1 | Really that difficult for Christ to die? | Matt 27:46 | Boober | 68387 | ||
If Christ knew that he was going to die, but he also knew at the same time that he would rise again from the grave and overcome death, then was it really that difficult for him to die for us? I know his death was for the atonement of our sins, but how was his death any harder than our own death? | ||||||
2 | Really that difficult for Christ to die? | Matt 27:46 | Reformer Joe | 68393 | ||
"I know his death was for the atonement of our sins, but how was his death any harder than our own death?" Well, that atonement thing is a really big deal, facing God's infinite wrath so that I won't. In addition to that, however, in our assertion of Jesus' divinity, we also often forget that He is a human being, and he experienced human emotions and his death was a very real and physical one, just like you and I will experience one day. And the means of his death was far more brutal than what we are likely to experience. Maybe it would help to look at it from our own lives. As Christians, we know that eternal glory and bliss lie on the other side of our own death. I have full assurance of that. However, does that make us look forward at all to the actual process of our deaths? As R.C. Sproul is known to say, he is not afraid of DEATH; it is DYING that he doesn't look forward to. --Joe! |
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