Re: [TruthTalk] Merry Christmas!

[Terry Clifton]

Dave wrote: some differences in our views. I see Jesus sweating out the coming event in the garden DAVEH:    I understand your perspective on this, but for Jesus to literally sweat blood worrying about what is to come seems a bit odd....effectively, it would seem the anticipation is worse than the dreaded event.  Do you really believe Jesus was so weak as that he would succumb in such a way to that mental distress?   I don't.  Why do many Christians perceive Jesus as God, who is all powerful and then think he would be mentally weak when facing death by torture?  If on the other hand one would think (as you did below) that he suffered such in anticipation of taking on the sins of the world, then why could he not have taken upon himself our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane? ===================================================================================== 1.  I don't think you (or I ) know how much God hates sin.  Revulsion would be too mild a term.  Hate may be too mild to describe it.  Only when we fall at His feet a moment after we die will we truly realize how perfectly holy He is and how evil we are.  Jesus was not mentally weak.  He was morally strong. 2. Even a casual look at the blood sacrifices offered for the atonement of sin will tell you that the substitute has to die.  The payback for sin is death.  Always has been, always will be.  I do not see Him dying for Adam's sin.  I see that He died for mine.  I think that anyone who sees Jesus as their personal savior feels that way.  He died for me.  I live for Him.