Reflections on Christ today

[EternalShore]

At work today, I saw the movie, "The Last Temptation of Christ" on the shelf~ I went ahead and looked at the cover and saw that it showed Jesus on the cross~ usually, one thinks of how Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, so this made me think a bit~ Jesus had all the power in the world to stop what happened to Him, but He didn't let it happen because He knew that it was His mission to save humanity~ However, He certainly didn't want to die that way~ He could've stopped it at any point and just given himself everything He was tempted to own~ In fact, they even mentioned this in the Bible~ He could've been tempted just to come off the cross until He died~ meanwhile, we want to dry, so being martyred like this doesn't sound like too big a deal~ however, when we think of committing sewer slide, we want to minimize the amount of pain~ fairly certain that no one here has considered sewer slide by crucifixion, but I'm open to being proven wrong~ meanwhile, Jesus was given one of the most painful methods of execution (I've heard ana-tsurushi is worse)~ >_< I just think it's amazing that Jesus could've turned everything around and was certainly tempted to the very end but chose not to~

 

[DarkRange55]

 

[Dejected 55]

At the same time... Jesus also knew his death would not be permanent. So... was he ever really tempted when he knew what the plan was all along and how it would turn out for him?

I think the story of Jesus would have made more sense if Jesus was an aspect of God that didn't know he was God and didn't know of his destiny... but rather was a good man who tried to spread good and was betrayed and killed for it... then surprised to find himself returned to the world 3 days later with full knowledge of who he really was and how he had saved mankind.

That version feels like a version that would position him more favorably than a guy who always knew he was the "son of God" and carried his life that way and knew he was making a sacrifice for humanity and knew he ultimately would only suffer that little bit for it before coming back afterwards.

Or maybe that's just me sitting on the sidelines.

 

[Pluto]