Posted on 03/28/2013 10:48:11 PM PDT by Cronos
A God who intensely loves and longs for and desires heart-to-heart intimacy with His creatures is very difficult to comprehend. Maybe we don’t love ourselves enough to believe He could love us so much. And He certainly couldn’t love and embrace those low-rent people who aren’t as good as I am ... He wouldn’t be that tacky!
Indeed! I'm of the impression that our God is no snob.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6:8)
Very appropriate verse!
It was a dead give away the guy is a "dweeb" and I seriously doubt he's even a Christian.
These words of Christ on the cross have a number of interpretations. But that Christ, if only momentarily, felt as if God was no longer with him is certainly one of the more obvious ones.
And at the ninth hour, Jesus shouted in a loud voice, "Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
worse yet, are the ones who make it a three syllable word: je-HEE-sus
How does that view square with the belief that Jesus was/is Almighty God incarnate? At no time did he ever cease being the Son of God - even momentarily. That's why I reject the idea that Christ could "feel" as if God was no longer with him. Someone posted further up about the significance of Jesus quoting the first part of Psalm 22. You may want to read that.
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