[mlizzy]

The Jesus who dwells in my heart is the resueprrected and glorified one who rose from the dead, like the one John saw on the Island of Patmos in Revelation chapter 1, not the dead one still hanging on the cross who had not conquered death at that point.

If you don't embrace the Crucifixion, the suffering of God, whose suffering can you have empathy for? That is one reason why Catholicism is referred to as a more complete faith, because we remember his birth, his life as a child and adult (that which we know), and his death and his rising.

[metmom]

If you don't embrace the Crucifixion, the suffering of God, whose suffering can you have empathy for?

We cannot identify with the suffering of God because not only is God beyond our comprehension, but the depths of what He suffered is as well.

I CAN empathize with others' suffering because I myself have suffered, as has everyone else on this planet.

That is one reason why Catholicism is referred to as a more complete faith, because we remember his birth, his life as a child and adult (that which we know), and his death and his rising.

Baloney.

Faith is faith and I don't think that there's a believer around who is any less familiar with Jesus' life and death than any catechized Catholic.

Y'all are not as special as y'all think you are. That's spiritual pride and right there knocks out any claims of spiritual superiority.