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Morality And Diasion: The Crucifixion Of Jesus Christ

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The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is a story most of us know by heart. A sinless man was crucified on a cross to save sin filled people. He had no ulterior motive, other than to save the people he loved. None of us are worthy of this kind of act, but Jesus did it anyway. Jesus was publicly tortured and humiliated. They whipped and beaten him far longer than any human should be. The soldiers put a scarlet robe on his back, forced a thrown crown on his head and gave him a wooden staff. They then proceed to mock him by bowing down and spitting on him. “He had borne Himself with firmness and dignity. But when after the second scourging the cross was laid upon Him, human nature could bear no more. He fell fainting beneath the burden”. (White, …show more content…

They removed his clothes, offered him wine, which he reused, and nailed iron nails into his wrists and feet. They raised his cross up, and peopled mocked him, saying if you’re God, save yourself! Jesus cried out, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they are doing”. (Luke 23:34, New international version) “With amazement the angels beheld the infinite love of Jesus, who, suffering the most intense agony of mind and body, thought only of others, and encouraged the penitent soul to believe”. (White, 1940, …show more content…

The first one: God hates sin. It was never intended to exist. The second: God really loves us. He created us for his companionship, and only wants the best for us. God never intended for this to be a sin filled world. He meant for us to live a life with Him in the Garden of Eden. We were never meant to hate others, kill, steal, or do anything that goes against what He teaches. The crucifixion is a good illustration of just how much God hates sin, because He sent His most beloved son to this world to pardon us from it. He never wanted us to miss out on a life of perfection. That was never in His plan. God loves us so much that He put the most perfect human, his son, in the most pain for imperfect human beings. He was willing to sacrifice His son, in order to save billions of people, that never did anything to deserve that kind of love and sacrifice. Time after time God gave us a chance to get ourselves together. To stop living life in sin, and instead to live a life that is in accordance with His teachings. Every time we failed. Jesus dying on the cross was His last chance to save all of us. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only begotten son, that whoso believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16, King James

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