12-30-2006, 08:06 AM
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| Account Deleted Join Date: Dec 2006 Gender:  Posts: 3,738 Country:  Points: 16,625, Level: 82 | Level up: 55%, 225 Points needed |  |   I am very happy that you do believe that Jesus died for "the monsters"... I weighed what you wrote, too, Alias about how Jesus did not perform a miracle to release those two criminals who were facing crucifixion that day on Calvary, along with him. Well, yes, he could have. But his purpose was not to do miracles to interfere with a political decision such as that. He did miracles to advance the spiritual lives of folk, not to thwart the politcal agenda of that day. He was very singular in focus, and that to bring us Eternal Life. Not to cause an uprising by what would have occurred had he miraculously released those men from their fate that day. I don't think you can conclude from his lack of action on their behalf that he is for the death penalty being meted out. I would say Jesus was against many kinds of oppressions and did not go about to overturn the political powers of that day. Not to mention that he had passed the Gate Beautiful regularly and yet the lame man who was said to lay out there daily to beg, the man that Peter and John healed, was left unattended to by the Lord. Why? He did not right all the wrongs. Rather he died for all of them, and lives again, that we too might die to self and live unto God. OD |