Bottom line: Be careful what you pray for. Be careful what you want. You might just get it.
Our soul’s deepest yearnings might be to be good, wise and compassionate. But it takes a gruelling education to get there.
It’s called the cross of life.
to be like Jesus
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That is (cricified with Christ)exactly what God has done to us in our Baptisms. (Romans 6)
We have already been judged (guilty) and been put to death.
But He was raised…so we will also be raised with Him. (actually, that has happened too, and happens again and again and again)
Romans 6 is gret for taking us off of the religious rat wheel, and given us the assurance that God has acted …for us.
Very liberating.
HAHA! Yeah.
Suffering is no virtue (sorry my Catholic friends!) but our ANSWERS to the questions suffering poses can be “like gold refined in fire…”
OR
they can just be crap.
@Steve Martin,
Sorry Steve, you miss the whole point.
The idea that Jesus “did it for us” is exactly what this cartoon debunks. There were things that only Jesus could do, AND there are things that we ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.
Paul claimed that WE are to share in the same sufferings that Jesus experienced. Peter claimed that the “same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.”
One source of the arrogance and hypocrisy in Churchianity today is the fact that Churchians STUDIOUSLY AVOID suffering and claim that Jesus did it all for them.
Nope.