Jesus takes up His cross and marches towards His death. He carries the instrument of His death and humiliation on His back, and even though He falls three times, He gets back up to finish His Most Holy Work.
Even while carrying His cross, Jesus offers hope to all of us. He glorifies suffering into something more than pain and death. Unlike other religions where there is a claim to end suffering, Christ enters into suffering and death, even a death on a cross for us, to make ammends, to offer Himself as the Worthy Lamb of God. It is here where Jesus says "Behold, I make all things new", He transforms suffering into salvation, and death into life.
Loving Jesus, You carried Your cross to the end, in order to complete Your Most Holy Work of Salvation. You, Lord, who are the Way, the Truth, and the Life, help us to carry our crosses and when we fall help us to persevere as You did, with loving endurance, on the road to Calvary.
Lord, You carried Your cross to Calvary, but the weight of the cross was not the only weight that You carried, You carried all of our transgressions with You. We recognize this and we know that we are to blame, we come to You, each time that You fall and say to You, "Put down the cross, You don't have to do this, You've already done enough!!!" And again You look at us knowing what You are going to go through and You reply, "No, I must partake of this cup, because I love you, and you are worth it."
God Love You
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Deliver A Messiah, "Mistaken Identity" by Agron Belica brings forth an elaborative examination of who was put on the cross. Many theories suggest that the son of Mary (aka Jesus Christ) was not the person placed on the cross, but someone other than Jesus Christ himself. The author takes you through an examination paving ways of new insight of who might have been put on the cross.
To contribute to the present work, the author investigated and researched to seek the truth about the assumptive facts leading up to what people of Christendom believe to be the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Bible and the Koran are the main resources used as references formally presented in use of persuasive arguments and theories of why the author strongly does not believe that the son of Mary was killed nor crucified.
The author has made every effort to be as unbiased and objective in presenting the facts and interpreting the events in this present work. The author is not trying to stir up controversy, but only wishes to lead people towards what might be considered the truth about the events believed about the crucifixion. The author strongly believes that the prevailing powers during that era have camouflaged the truth. The cover-up of the crucifixion with a false pretext was to lead the masses of people in the past and at present to believe, that the son of Mary was really crucified, by the leading elite that was influenced by the Jewish religious hierarchy at that time.
This book is in itself a preface to a larger work soon to come—an introduction to the topic. Who was put on the cross at Calvary those many years ago? Join author Agron Belica in his attempt to Deliver a Messiah.
It is quite a shame that people continue to believe these heresies of "liberation." Jesus Christ, if indeed He is the Messiah, must have been crucified. According to God's divine plan, our fallen humanity could not have been redeemed otherwise. If a person does not believe in Jesus as the Messiah, arguments about whether or not He was crucified won't be relevant.
Further, the Lord's crucifixion is something that's "too crazy" not to believe. A "cover up" under false pretenses is ridiculous. Why would Christians continue to believe for twenty centuries that their Anointed One suffered the most humiliating and painful death that the ancient world had to offer? Why not claim that He was murdered in His sleep by conspirators; or some fancier method?
Indeed, we believe as Christians that Christ came to reveal Truth in great paradoxes. For example, Christianity teaches that power and authority are only found when one humbles himself; that true joy is only found through and after suffering; the fullness of life comes after a man has died to his own will.
Until "Anonymous" and the author cited understand that Truth is found in these paradoxes, they will not believe that Christ HAD to go to the Cross.
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