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In the Cross of Christ not only is the Redemption accomplished through suffering, but also human suffering itself has been redeemed,. Christ, - without any fault of his own - took on himself "the total evil of sin". The experience of this evil determined the incomparable extent of Christ's suffering, which became the price of the Redemption. [8]
If our hearts are truly in Heaven, God will strengthen us to suffer the loss of our worldly possessions. [3] Christians have grown very weak and lukewarm in their faith. Yet, if they truly remembered the poverty of Christ, how he became poor and needy for their sake, they would be ashamed to forsake him by keeping their wealth.
One extreme example of redemptive suffering, which existed in the 13th and 14th centuries in Europe, was the Flagellant movement. As a partial response to the Black Death , these radicals, who were later condemned as heretics in the Catholic Church , engaged in body mortification, usually by whipping themselves, to repent for their sins , which ...
The concept of a victim soul is an unofficial belief derived from interpretations of the Catholic Church teachings on redemptive suffering.A person believes himself or is considered by others to be chosen by God to suffer more than most, accepting this condition based on the example of Christ's own Passion.
[2] By Christ satisfying our debt of honor to God, we avoid punishment. In Calvinist penal substitution, it is the punishment which satisfies the demands of justice. [citation needed] Another distinction must be made between penal substitution (Christ punished instead of us) and substitutionary atonement (Christ suffers for us).
A number of theologians see "example" (or "exemplar") theories of the atonement as variations of the moral influence theory. [8] Wayne Grudem , however, argues that "Whereas the moral influence theory says that Christ's death teaches us how much God loves us, the example theory says that Christ's death teaches us how we should live". [ 9 ]
This is an example of the Christian approach to the construction of a gospel harmony, in which material from different gospels is combined, producing an account that goes beyond each gospel. [3] [4] Since the 16th century, these sayings have been widely used in sermons on Good Friday, and entire books have been written on theological analysis ...
The Humiliation of Christ is a Protestant Christian doctrine that consists of the rejection and suffering that Jesus received and accepted, according to Christian belief. Within it are included his incarnation , suffering , death , burial , and sometimes descent into hell .