Bible Question:
Addressing the erroneous assumptions. Let's start with another set of them. 1. Let's assume Jesus didn't watch Barabbas "walk" away. But he knew Barabbas would be in the vicinity of his disciples. They certainly did follow the crowd and witnessed what was happening to our Lord. Peter came eye to eye with Jesus didn't he? 2. Surely if one of them made an attempt to witness to him they would have recorded it. 3.4 I don't think it's off base to assume someone that experienced what Barabbas did. Would consider it providence whatever name he would give "it" and be open to true change. 5.Allah, God, Jehovah, Yahweh, which ever one it was. He certainly intervened in Barabbas's life! I tried to write a short story on this subject but as I tried to find facts to use I couldn't. So I started with what some of the things that Barabbas would have heard about Jesus as he was eating in a restaurant Why do people insist on hating this man because Jesus traded places with him? It was preordained that it would happen. To this man it was a miracle! To the disciples it was injustice. Either way I don't believe he made it to paradise with the thief that died with Christ!! NIGHTMAN |
Bible Answer: Hi Nightman, Here is an interesting bit of information. My Name isn’t Barabbas, but Jesus actually took my place and hung between heaven and earth and took the wrath of God the Father so that I could spend eternal life with God. God did a fantastic thing for me the day Jesus died on that cross; I deserve to be separated from God for ever! Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God can’t die, so God came up with the plan that the Word of God would personally become a human being so that God, being the perfect man “without sin” could pay the ultimate price for my sin. Acts 20:28 (B) to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. A man can’t become God but God took on human flesh and paid the debt that I owe for my sins. God tells us that if we will trust in the work that He did in the person of Jesus, the appointed one, that God will give us everlasting life with Himself as a gift that He bought. But we "must" put “all” of our faith and confident expectation in the person of Jesus Christ. Philip. 2:5-8 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Have a great day and I hope you enjoy the forum, CDBJ |