> EZ. A good God allowed his only begotten Son, the creator
> of the universe, to be born in the most humiliating
> circumstances in a cattle shed and then be tortured and
> crucified and buried in a stranger’s grave.
All that for *YOUR* *BLOODY* SINS!!
> So what’s there to raise this issue of a “good” God?
Here’s what there is.
Do you have children?
Are they not, in a manner of speaking, your own Creation? Made in your likeness and image?
Would you be willing to die for your children?
Imagine there is a King and a Just Judge. One who must always judge with complete impartiality and honesty.
The Accuser brings before this King one of His own dear children, caught in an act worthy of death. What can the King do? To set the guilty free would be the gravest injustice that would shake the foundations of His Kingdom.
To condemn His dear child is more than He can bear.
What can He do?
The *ONLY* thing He could do to set His child free and to still effect Justice is to take the place of His dear child and suffer the penalty of Death in his child’s place.
Jesus did that for YOU.
Willingly.
He’s waiting for you now.
All you need to do is call upon His name, ask His forgiveness for sending Him to that torturous death, and ask Him to SAVE YOUR SOUL!
Do it!
You have *NOTHING* to lose and *ETERNAL BLISS* to gain!
Of course, that was the point of my post.
Jesus was both Son of Man and Son of God. he took human flesh and experienced all our wants and sufferings from abandonment, betrayal, and fear to desertion, hunger, thirst, love, tears, fear, and feelings of hopelessness (being forsaken).
So if the Son of Man has experienced every imaginable pain and suffering, He understands that fallen man lives in a world of suffering and pain. He Himself experienced it.
Worldly suffering is not a basis to ask “How Can A Good God” allow for tsunamis and earthquakes or allow for the Nazi Holocaust. Christ came to redeem mankind and allow us to share of his eternal kingdom if we so choose.
The headline of this thread is simply an attention grabber and nothing more.