Comments on: Hard to Watch http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/hard-to-watch/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hard-to-watch Where The Christian Faith Meets The Common Knowledge of Our Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:46:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Dane http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/hard-to-watch/#comment-2890 The Dane Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:20:22 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=754#comment-2890 Brave words there, stating what Christ's true thoughts consisted of in the garden... The Danes last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nowheresville/~3/310628618/2008_06_01_old1.php" rel="nofollow">20080612</a> Brave words there, stating what Christ’s true thoughts consisted of in the garden…

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]]> By: Nathan Creitz http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/hard-to-watch/#comment-2889 Nathan Creitz Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:07:34 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=754#comment-2889 I feel the same way. Jesus didn't agonize over going to the cross because of all the violence and the torture and the anguish of it. He agonized in the garden about the wrath of God that was meant for all humanity that He was about to take upon Himself. He was tortured mentally by the idea that His Father would turn His back on Him. The Resurrection itself was the climax of the story but in "The Passion" it might as well have been simply placed after the credits as a bonus for the people who stuck around to see who the dolly grip was. The crucifixion is important and the cross is a symbol of our faith, but too much emphasis on the torture of Jesus makes us think less of the reason why He chose to endure the cross and the wrath of God in the first place: obedience to the Father. <a href="http://nathancreitz.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">nathancreitz</a> I feel the same way.

Jesus didn’t agonize over going to the cross because of all the violence and the torture and the anguish of it. He agonized in the garden about the wrath of God that was meant for all humanity that He was about to take upon Himself. He was tortured mentally by the idea that His Father would turn His back on Him. The Resurrection itself was the climax of the story but in “The Passion” it might as well have been simply placed after the credits as a bonus for the people who stuck around to see who the dolly grip was.

The crucifixion is important and the cross is a symbol of our faith, but too much emphasis on the torture of Jesus makes us think less of the reason why He chose to endure the cross and the wrath of God in the first place: obedience to the Father.

nathancreitz

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