(December 8, 2014 at 4:48 pm)ChristIsLord Wrote:(December 8, 2014 at 3:27 pm)Beccs Wrote: Hardly a sacrifice, wasn't it?
Suffer a few hours on the cross, stay dead three days, rise and become Emperor of the universe.
But your imaginary friend just LOVES blood sacrifices, right?
Christ's death on the cross ended blood sacrifices once and for all.
To live a pure life and suffer as he did is more sacrifice than I can ever imagine.
What he loves is us, not blood.
He even asks the Father in prayer to take this cup from him, but still submits to Gods plan.
You might look up scourging and how one dies when hanging from the cross. Its quite the sacrifice of ultimate torture and a slow painful death to boot
Others suffered far longer.
And again, 3 days of death, some torture and then emperor of the cosmos is something many would accept. There are those who have sacrificed the one life they had, knowing their death would be final, for other people and they are the ones worthy of respect.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
