(17-06-2024, 07:47 AM)Ali Imran Wrote: You do know that Jesus pleaded with God to take away the cup, to save him from what was about to happen, right?
And in the Gospel, when God ignored Jesus's plea, Jesus cried out to God, "Why do you forsake me?" which should be a reference to the plea he made which was ignored.
I am sure you will agree with me that Man still does not fear Death as he should. I don't mean dying. We all don't want to die and 99% of us fear death but I am not referring to that. I am referring to Death in the sense that the Bible means it....Eternal Separation from God.
Buddhists, Taoists, Hindus and Moslems all have their versions of Life after Death which do not have this "Eternal Separation from Yahweh"
Jesus knew that Death would be that Eternal Separation. God's wrath would be upon Jesus on the Cross at Calvary....
Do you think that Jesus was a coward, a sissy who feared pain and dying in this body? Hmmm?
He raised peeepur from the dead, he fed the multitude, walked on water, and healed the blind....if you want to go back even farther in taim, Jesus created the World and all the things in it, living and nonliving.
And mamma mia! He was scared to die?!
As God, He knew He would be raised from the dead. As Man, He knew His Mission, and that Mission included God turning His face from Sin, the Sin of the world which was laid upon Jesus. That was the anguish in those words "Father, why have you forsaken Me?" It was the anguish of Eternal Separation.
The Sin of the World, the magnitude of which no one standing at the foot of the Cross understood, not even Mary, Ah Kow, Ah Lee (Ee Mun), Ah Sim, all of them did not understand why Jesus was hanging there on the Cross other than He had insinuated that He was IAM.
It was a secret which Satan was not given to know or he would not have Jesus killed. To those who don't understand it, it was the Pilate who ordered the crucifixion. Those who understand a bit better would say, it wasn't Pilate; it was the Jews. But if you have a spiritual understanding, you'd know that there was a spiritual warfare and the mastermind in the killing was Satan. And that crucifixion must happen, that would defeat Satan. We understand this nao only because the Holy Spirit revealed the truth of Christ's Coming and Death to Paul. Before that, even Jesus's disciples, all twelve of them, did not understand. They went hiding, Judas even betrayed Him, and Peter denied knowing Him, but after they knew, they were prepared to even be martyred for the Gospel...just like Paul. (Judas excluded)
Wow! What a transformation. From fearing death and going into hiding, they went around preaching the Gospel on pain of Death.
And Christ's final words were "It is finished." What does "It is finished." mean to you? Dare to answer bo? Or do you want Bro SimTan to answer for you? Just don't ask Pink to answer, he will use your Hadith to answer, and you shant like that very much....