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To: John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?
Christ laid down His life and He took it up again.

I agree completely. But that does not remove the fact that he was killed despite His innocence. The nails put in His hands may have put Him on the cross, but love kept Him up there.
5 posted on 04/16/2006 7:27:57 PM PDT by JamesP81
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To: JamesP81

Best perspective I have seen, places God the Father as the one who demanded the death of Christ, and the thinking, decisions, and behavior of none others were as significant nor determined His death.

The spiritual death on the Cross, in a state of being cursed from hanging on the tree, demanded judgment from a righteous Father. The Father then imputed the penalty of all sin from all time, past, present and future, any and all sin of humanity upon our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.

The penalty of sin is death and the spiritual death, no other human was ever able to bear, for no other human had a perfect spirit to offer in sacrifice for the sin of humanity.

He sacrificed His body, remaining faithful in soul and spirit to the Father. He provided His blood, the blood of the New Covenant, for all to sup through faith in Him for the remission of sin. He relinquished His spirit to the Father, then His body and soul on the Cross breathed His last. His soul then departed the body. The body was taken to the tomb, and His soul descended into Hades for three days. The omnipotence of the Holy Spirit returned His soul to His body, and the Father returned the spirit to the body and He ressurrected, not resuscitated, but ressurrected on after three days.

He walked the Earth for forty days in His ressurrection body, He ate food, spoke with many and displayed amny facets of the ressurrection body. On the 40th day, He ascended to the third heaven, where he was seated at the right hand of God the Father and given His third royal patent and title, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the Bright Morning Star as indicated in the doctrine of His Session.

Ten days later, the Church Age began with the Feast of pentecost and now the indwelling of God the Father and the Holy Spirit is available to all believers as a new spiritual species of believers in Christ, a part of His royal family.

The only significance of those who judged, ridiculed, belittled, beat, slandered, and sought to murder our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus is that He bore their sins for them and asked the Father to forgive them their sins for they knew not what they did.

All the work was performed by Christ on the Cross, in obedience to the will of the Father.

An important lesson is available in studying these aspects of the Crucifixtion. Whenever one is unduly influenced by emotion or seeks to label parties other than Christ or the Father or the Holy Ghost as significant players in that day on Calvary, they are very likely to be thinking from a scarred soulish perspective. This is not to judge, but rather to offer encouragement for others to seek His blessings by further focusing on His work rather than the work of man in the Crucifixtion, except of course the work of one man in Hypostatic Union who was perfect humanity, whose work was not human work at all but was simply an act of faith.


6 posted on 04/16/2006 8:25:01 PM PDT by Cvengr
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To: JamesP81

That is a broken old record. The book or Revelations states Behold the Lamb crucified before the foundation of the world. Christ was destined to be crucified before there was a world. Man played a part in God's grand schem of things but Christ poured out His soul even unto death. This murdering of Christ has been the basis of the Anti Jewish attitude for a long long time.


11 posted on 04/16/2006 9:11:59 PM PDT by John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?
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