Comments on: To those who insult and mock my Lord Jesus and King http://www.discerningtheworld.com/2009/05/28/to-those-who-insult-and-mock-my-lord-jesus-and-king/ A Genuine Christian Blog for Genuine Christians Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:21:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amanda http://www.discerningtheworld.com/2009/05/28/to-those-who-insult-and-mock-my-lord-jesus-and-king/#comment-380 Amanda Fri, 29 May 2009 10:59:06 +0000 http://discerningtheworld2.wordpress.com/?p=5322#comment-380 <a href="http://mycontemplations.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/how-unique-was-the-suffering-of-jesus/#comment-2372" rel="nofollow">Ds. Cobus van Wyngaard:</a> I don’t doubt the uniqueness of Christ. But I believe that much of what Jesus did was not unique to him. The Bible doesn’t have a problem with this. It talks about sharing in the suffering of Christ (Rom 8:17; Phil 3:10), about following Paul like he follows Jesus (1 Cor 11:1), about disciples doing the same things that Jesus did (Matt 10). Jesus was imitated, followed. Others have done similar things. In many respects what Jesus broughts was not supposed to be unique, but rather point to something that is common! Maybe his suffering is not supposed to be unique either. Maybe his suffering is exaclty that which so many Christians suffered while being persecuted, which so many slaves suffered on slaveboats, which so many poor have suffered at the hands of the rich. The extreme example of what humanity is capable of! The value of the severity of his suffering then is not in it being worse that what others suffer, but exactly in it’s being just as bad as what others are suffering!

Ds. Cobus van Wyngaard:

I don’t doubt the uniqueness of Christ. But I believe that much of what Jesus did was not unique to him. The Bible doesn’t have a problem with this. It talks about sharing in the suffering of Christ (Rom 8:17; Phil 3:10), about following Paul like he follows Jesus (1 Cor 11:1), about disciples doing the same things that Jesus did (Matt 10). Jesus was imitated, followed. Others have done similar things. In many respects what Jesus broughts was not supposed to be unique, but rather point to something that is common! Maybe his suffering is not supposed to be unique either. Maybe his suffering is exaclty that which so many Christians suffered while being persecuted, which so many slaves suffered on slaveboats, which so many poor have suffered at the hands of the rich. The extreme example of what humanity is capable of! The value of the severity of his suffering then is not in it being worse that what others suffer, but exactly in it’s being just as bad as what others are suffering!

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