A great passage from C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity that talks about why Jesus died on the cross for us. Now if we had not fallen, that would be all plain sailing. But unfortunately we now need God’s help in order to do something which God, in His own nature, never does at all – to surrender, to suffer, to submit, to die. Nothing in God’s nature corresponds to this process at all. God can share only what He has: this thing, in His own, nature, He has not. But supposing God became a man – suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was merged with God’s nature in one person – then that person could help us. He could surrender His will, and suffer and die, because He was man; and He could do it perfectly because He was God. You and I can go through this process only if God does it in us; but God can do it only if He becomes a man … That is the sense in which He pays our debt, and suffers for us what He Himself need not suffer at all.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:09:17 +0000
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