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genuine question regarding christ's suffering

  • 17-08-2010 8:44am
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    Christians are forever saying that Jesus Christ suffered worse than any human being alive ever did. While I understand that Jesus was tortured horrendously while completely innocent, and I don't envy Him that suffering one bit, I can't grasp why He suffered more than anyone else alive? People are being tortured for years by insufferable pain. What jumps to mind was when one of the guys I worked with for a charity lost his 16 year old son to a severe skin condition that would have caused him incredible pain throughout his entire life - his uncle said at the funeral that Jesus suffered unimaginable pain for hours, this boy suffered for 16 years. Other things spring to mind, like the innocent victim of Larry Murphy (obviously a hot topic right now) who suffered horrendous rapes and physical assault over the course of hours, following which she was inches from being suffocated to death when he was interrupted. She was an innocent victim forced through unimaginable suffering, not to mention the terror involved. And this is not a simple isolated case of human suffering. While I accept that Christ's suffering was the greatest, the highest price - I'm interested as to why, exactly?


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  • #2
    santing
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    The suffering of Christ is not "just" his death through crucifixion - there are enough examples of worse sufferings as you have already indicated.

    The suffering of Christ is however unique. He alone became the sin-bearer and took the penalty of our sins on the cross. He alone experienced to be "forsaken by God." We cannot imagine the sufferings that came because of this, as no human has ever experienced anything even close.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Thanks Santang, that makes perfect sense for me. I was getting too caught up in the physical element of the crucifixion to consider the spiritual.


  • #4
    kelly1
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    Hello Budgese,

    the link below is from an account of the visions of Blessed Anne-Catherine Emmerich. It describes Christ's sufferings in the garden of Gethsamani and I found it very moving indeed. It's long but well worth a read.

    http://my.homewithgod.com/israel/acemmerich2/#14

    Some info on Blessed Anne-Catherine here

    God bless,
    Noel.


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