I was reading a book for one of my papers and there was a section that just about brought me to tears. What do you think about this? Where do you see God as Jesus is being crucified? Do you see him hovering above the cross, turning away from Jesus, and pouring out wrath? Do you see him in the Roman soldiers crucifying Jesus? Or do you see God precisely in the crucified Jesus, in the God-man nailed to the cross? While it is certainly correct to see God punishing sin as Jesus is being crucified (see Isa 53: 10), the Gospels are relentless in their emphasis that we are to see God first and foremost in the Jesus who hangs on the cross. As Moltmann says, “When the crucified Jesus is called the ‘image of the invisible God,’ the meaning is that this is God, and God is like this . . . The nucleus of everything that Christian theology says about ‘God’ is to be found in this Christ event.” That bears saying again— the nucleus of everything that Christian theology says about God is to be found in the crucified Jesus. And in the crucified Jesus, we learn that the God who pours out wrath is the God whose hands are nailed to the cross . The God who punishes sin is the God who takes the punishment . The God who judges is the God who looks upon those crucifying him and says, “Forgive them.”
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 02:47:18 +0000
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