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Jo Ann aka Grama Hug Attack
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My heart is soo... in agreement with the following words written by a young man, on fb, that the cross should be seen as the death of a toxic view of God.
God does not punish Jesus for our sins. The cross is a symbol of a God who allows himself to experience the very darkest, most broken and most abandoned reality of what being human can involve.
It is an image of a God who would literally love us to death.
I now enjoy talking about the cross of Jesus as something that changes humanity's view of the Divine rather than (as the older substitutionary theories go) changing the Divine's view about humanity.
In other words it replaces a God of judgement and wrath with a God of compassion and love.
I now share with whosoever will, that "Christ comes to show humans who they are, not what they are not.
The sacrificial love displayed on the cross does not change God's mind about us (as the so called objective views of the Atonement states).
The spectacle of the cross changes us not God!
How? By displaying costly love rather than brutal judgment.
If we see Jesus as a literal, perfect offering, a human blood sacrifice, then we have no choice but to view God as wrathful, and vengeful. A God who needs his mind changed by having Jesus pay the price for our sins. He dies; we get let off the hook!
But if we see the symbol of the Jesus hanging on a tree as a selfless act of love, joining humankind at its ugliest, lowest, crappiest place, and not retaliating with any sense of hatred or revenge, then there is more chance, of our own view of God being changed.
We might even fall in more and more in love with such a loving and compassionate God (Daddy) rather than being terrified of Him
Thus the Jesus-Tree can either perpetuate a Toxic view of God or it can heal it."
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((hugs))s , love and blessings.............:)
Hallelujah!