(October 3, 2018 at 9:55 pm)polymath257 Wrote:Strange is a very polite way of putting it(October 3, 2018 at 8:11 pm)SteveII Wrote: Wait, you think that God the Son, through which all of creation came into existence, feared physical pain? I would agree that his human nature did not want to endure the actual pain of the cross, but the mind of Jesus was divine and therefore not susceptible to human fear. Jorm was right, it is about your particular Christology. You are just winging it--not that it lines up with some framework you have thought out.
In fact, all your bluster about "mainstream Christian teaching" is an empty claim when you cannot even correctly characterize what Jesus was facing (as you said: "scared"). He was facing having the entire sins of the world (of all times) put on his shoulders. Because of his divine nature, he was very clear on what that meant--even as we cannot fathom what that means. In fact, the weight of that killed his human nature before the cross could. So, you tell me...IF Jesus knew that having the sins of the world put on his shoulders would kill him before some pretty barbaric physical torture could, what do you think was more on his mind in the garden?
Really? The sins would kill him before the torture?
Wow. Christian mythology is even stranger than I thought.
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