Holy Week – Day 6
Friday
Disturbing and difficult words: Philip Yancey has us consider this disturbing
poem by Sidney Carter: “But God is up in
heaven and he doesn’t do a thing, With a million angels watching, and they
never move a wing. It’s God they ought to crucify instead of you and me, I said
to this Carpenter A-hanging on the tree.”
Then Yancey comments: “Theologically, the only answer to Carter’s
accusation is the mysterious doctrine that in the Apostle Paul’s words, ‘God
was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.’ In an incomprehensible way,
God personally experienced the cross.
Otherwise, Calvary would go down in history as a form of cosmic child
abuse, rather than a day we call Good Friday.”
Hmmm
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