tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post3372276699620353772..comments2023-11-03T05:09:33.978-04:00Comments on Fragments of Grace: This Saturday is for All of UsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-9914296114466654802010-04-04T06:31:42.101-04:002010-04-04T06:31:42.101-04:00Yes, very good question.
I'm not sure if this...Yes, very good question.<br /><br />I'm not sure if this will make sense, but I normally do everything I can to avoid violence. I don't watch television, I screen movie images, I discuss books and current events with people I love rather than processing it through some random journalist.<br /><br />And yet, violence and a violent death inserts itself into my life anyway. <br /><br />My experience this Passiontide has been paradoxical. Yes, I would change the human circumstance if I could - that is part of my humanity. But since I cannot, then I choose to stand in it with as much consciousness as I can, and I am forever changed.<br /><br />I don't think I ever approached Easter this way before. Now I'm not sure I can look at it any other way.Cindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05147416487171740144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-52297740955562207372010-04-03T19:22:23.874-04:002010-04-03T19:22:23.874-04:00Thank you.Thank you.Joynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-73288990596149002192010-04-03T16:08:14.957-04:002010-04-03T16:08:14.957-04:00And yes it is a good question.And yes it is a good question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-89481965993752159092010-04-03T16:06:16.653-04:002010-04-03T16:06:16.653-04:00I sometimes wonder how Mary bore it, I am not so s...I sometimes wonder how Mary bore it, I am not so sure I could have watched my son die. And then if He really knew that he would be raised from the dead, or was this total faith in the Father? And if He trusted the Father to do this, how did he do so so willingly? <br /><br />I think I would rather He didn't have to die at all. But humans seem to demand it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-50336689211943716262010-04-03T15:52:19.743-04:002010-04-03T15:52:19.743-04:00Now I'm worried that maybe I've confused t...Now I'm worried that maybe I've confused the question in my mind, and maybe it was really MP's question. Perhaps I'll get a chance to ask tonight. Or if not, I will, later.<br /><br />But regardless, it raises all kinds of other questions, some of them debated in seminary last week and I'm sure in many other places:<br /><br />Does God die when Jesus dies? Who suffers what? Did Jesus have to die? Is violence a necessary component? I'm reading Volf, Scotus, and Calvin all almost simultaneously this afternoon, so I'm no doubt influenced by that combination. But most of all I am influenced by the reality that death in the form of outright violence has interjected itself into my life one time too many, and I am trying to come to terms with that and with 2000 years of people trying to do the same in the context of Christian theology.<br /><br />This is proving to be a very interesting Easter. Keep talking!Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01898073277524952683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-84662078375520864912010-04-03T15:23:09.417-04:002010-04-03T15:23:09.417-04:00Hell, yes. Just as I would have wanted my daughte...Hell, yes. Just as I would have wanted my daughter to die another way. And just as I would have wanted my own body and spirit, and those of so many others, to be spared similar--and sometimes far longer lasting--horrific abuse and desecration of the image of God/dess, who I believe weeps over it all.Dr. Laura Marie Grimeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10372741914558791844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-71824878259803611352010-04-03T15:05:40.549-04:002010-04-03T15:05:40.549-04:00In my theology class in seminary I wrote a paper o...In my theology class in seminary I wrote a paper on this very topic...or rather I think it was, "Could he have died any other way?" and of course the answer as no. Sigh.Terrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15667178624061122421noreply@blogger.com