Essay on Christs Death

The Beautiful Butchering:
An Analysis of Christ's Death Upon the Cross



By
Jonas Weaver




Advanced Writing
Ms. Peagram
Word Count: 917


















There have been many events that we take for granted. Some of these events are vitally important while others are not. Certain ones are a matter of life and death while other are a matter of triviality. one such event that is important and a matter of life and death is Christ's death. in the modern church today there is a plague. It is an infestation of triviality added to Christ's death. that my dear friends is an issue that we dare not let slip by, because if we do we have just reduced the glorious death of our Savior to nothing more than the words, " He Died." The theological and eternal implications found in Christ's death are enormous.
The cross. Those two words hold within them many theological implications, two them are the facts the Christ died as a man, and all of it was allowed and done willingly by God. Crucifixion, is the most perfect death penalty. it makes the victim suffer by having them life themselves up by their ankles, all the while trying to hold themselves up by their wrists. the victim would slowly suffocate to death (1). This is how Christ died. The theological implication here is that he died as a man. Yes, he also died as God but he died as a man. This means that he felt every bit of pain. He Could have had the pain removed, but he didn't he felt every part of his body in Pain. This also tells us that he was willing to suffer as any criminal on a cross would (1). This leads into the next point.
The next issue is, how could God let his son die? HE can because he is God. The better question is, who caused and inflicted Christ's death? the answer is God (2). God's will was for his son to be put to death on a cross and become, " a curse" for us (3) and Christ willingly obeyed the will of his father (2). This may sound sadistic but it is true: it pleased God to kill him (3). God not only designed but allowed and Inflicted everything Christ suffered on the cross (2). that seems to me to be a very large theological implication: God allowed, designed, and committed the act of killing his son on the cross. That my friend is a theological issue that is worthy of a whole book. The idea of the perfect and holy God allowing His son to die and designing his death! (2) That is, to me, insanely deep and serious.
The Bible tells us that as soon as Christ died the veil in the temple was torn. This even bore an immense amount of significance. when we think of a veil we think of weddings and the bride having a veil over her face. We think, " Oh, that wouldn't be too hard to rip." This is not the veil mentioned in the Bible. The veil is nineteen feet high, sixty feet wide, and has the thickness of a man's hand (4). This veil was used to separate the world from the Holy of Holies, or in other word, from God (4). As soon as it was torn God had opened up the way to God for Jews and Gentiles (4). HE also made Christ the new barrier to him through salvation, which moves us to our next point.
This next point is one taught in all evangelical churches. some misunderstand it while other tout it without really caring. Those who are saved take it for granted and rather flippantly, " Oh we're saved, yeah, woohoo!" No one really realizes that the eternal implications are enormous(5). Imagine the worst pain you have ever felt, now multiply that by trillions and that is what hell will be like. Hell, is not some place where you can visit with your buddies all day and party all night, you burn alive basically. We are told that if God didn't spare his angels from hell why should he spare us (3). So realize this that whenever you hear the phrase you have been saved from hell, that is the best thing that could ever be said to you. You need to realize that if we were made to pay we would suffer eternally and would NEVER be able to achieve our own salvation. Thus Christ became a sacrifice for us thus ransoming us from our sins. Why do we take for granted? How dare we?
We teach salvation, but we teach it so much that it becomes old and stale. The implications are enormous. Christ saved us from hell, he also gave us access to the father (5). Again we tech that in church but we misunderstand that it is not anything we do that saves, but everything God does. We are unable to choose our own salvation only Christ redeems, not us. Sadly, few churches in America preach this anymore.
The theological and eternal implications found in Christ's death are enormous. This statement has been proven by the previous arguments. Nothing that has ever happened in history has had greater significance, than Christ's death. Compared to Christ's beautiful death the Holocaust looks frail and small. Compared to his death the Khmer Rouge seems lacking in significance. Christ died. He was butchered. The truth is nothing has every been as significant or a beautiful as the butchering of our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that you will realize that.