Can someone clarify if he was fulfilling his destiny, and why he should be damned for doing so, or was it completely his own doing?
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There's a difference between God determining somebody's choices for them, and knowing what choices that person is going to make.\n\nJesus knew that Judas would betray him, just as Jesus knew that Peter would deny him three times.  Ultimately, it was still a choice of Judas to betray Jesus- even if Jesus knew beforehand that he was going to do it.
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My understanding:\n\nHe who gives of himself, Must Receive others as who they are.
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You're right.  He seems to inflict terrible suffering on some of us, mainly those who are already suffering.  If you didn't know better you'd think he was messing us about really, telling us how he's nice, but then being quite nasty.
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Boy, bungiebabe woke up on the wrong side of the political coin this morning, eh? Too bad about his approval rating, btw. Finally proves what people like me have been trying to tell you for years now: Little King George and his tyranny cannot be tolerated. It is about time that people start calling a spade a spade. Guess what, King George followers - The emperor has no clothes! \n\nSo keep bowing to his smirking, bobble-head approach to leadership. After all, isn't making others feel insignificant how you types manage to feel so good about yourselves?
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Yes, and so much more.  He gave His place at the right hand of God, would you?\n\nWould you give your life?  Would you give your own Sons life?  doubtful.
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He went without fighting.  That's not quite the same thing.  Willingly implies that he wanted to go.  He didn't.  He prayed for God to stop.  He prayed that it wouldn't end that way.  But he knew that it was ultimately God's will, not his.  So he agreed, and yes, he did have the choice to follow God or not.  He chose to follow God.  That doesn't mean that he went willingly.  There's a slight distinction.\n\n**EDIT**\nI don't think that it was God's divine plan to have to kill Jesus.  The prophecies that I'm familiar with say nothing of Jesus dying.  They say that a branch of Jesse's tree will sprout and bring great joy, restore God's people, and show people the light.  That's why they were expecting a Political Messiah, a military leader to free them.  Isaiah also says that the One will rejoice in obeying God.  He fulfilled his destiny according to the prophecies.  He showed people the light, he obeyed God.  That is what led to his ultimate cruxifiction...obedience, not willingness.\n\nAnd Jesus was afraid in the Garden, he begs God to stop it, to take the cup away.  In my Bible, that is opened right now in Matthew 26:39 Jesus says "Let this cup of suffering be taken away from me.  Yet I want your will, not mine."\n\nIf he was willing, it would have also been his will.
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I asked too, and was told he has always been present, which scares me and answer a lot of questions.  I guess he was around forever.  He was the one who created everything like, dinosaurs, etc. So I guess he got better along the way and created man and we have been here every since.  WOW!  I never thought of it that way.  Still confused, I am on a mission know.  To be honest I don't think we are going to get a straight answer because that will prove the true existence and challenge everything that we believe.  Imagine what would become of the world if we found out this was all a farce to keep most of us straight.  It is because of religion that we are doing okay today, of course man has rules. laws, and regulations for the ones who are non-believer's and the slackers. That would open up another Pandora's Box.  WOW!
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That's a good question, and further to that, what is he doing now -- other than willingly watching the world go to ruin?  (And please don't start on that stuff about the fulfillment of prophecy, etc.)
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We needed to see His suffering to understand the depth of His love.  Because unfortunately, we tend to be hard-headed.  We needed to see how deep our sin really was/is.  I can see why you'd wonder why he didn't just click His heels three times like Dorothy, but it wouldn't have quite the same effect.  ^__^  I mean, can you imagine if the Wizard of Oz was our salvation story?  =P  heh.
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wow,someone is actually reading the bible right.i actually see the same thing.check this out.when jesus was praying in the garden of gethsemine,if he be the only god everyones cracking him up to be.why would he go thru all the trouble to pray to himself????dosnt sound like sense to me.daaaaaaaaaah.why does he always say "he only does what he see his father do.hhhmmmm.is this the higher being that every body heard at jesus'baptism.quote "behold this is my beloved son whome i am well pleased".this must be the guy who jesus referrs to as father.isnt this a trip.wow!!!!!!!!!!!
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jesus, he came up with the idea of free will in the first place.\nbut then again, we did go along with his idea, soo, WE ALL ARE! it was our choice in heaven. i mean, we coulda went with the "non-free will, totalitarianism" idea that lucifer had, but what fun would that of been?
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I don't see it as all that blasphemous. You got 'the Way' absolutely right. Following the Path that He gives us is exactly what He wants of us. While an 'honest life' is surely a part of the Truth, it also means that He contains all Truth. There's a lot more here than you are seeing. Again, 'the Life', does mean live this way, but more, He is the true Source of life, both temporal and eternal. \n\nThink bigger, but you're on the right track.
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He came from someones imagination. It is impossible to has existed for eternity. Everything has to have a point at which it was created or began.
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I'm pretty sure he wasn't, he was a killer of replicants (a blade runner).\n\nOK, I'm changing my answer to:  no one knows.  Apparantly this is an ongoing debate among Blade Runner afficionados.  See the link below for more info.
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Man creates his own hell, and many on earth have done a good job of that.  On the other hand, you can be in the most unpleasant circumstances and create a little slice of Heaven.  It's all about staying connected to, and letting the Holy One direct our lives.  (Easier said than done all the time).  ; )
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It's not that He "can't", but that He won't.  It would defeat the purpose of His having given us a little thing called free will.  And no, we were not made to be perfect.  He knew, and knows, how everything is going to turn out.  He knew what was going to happen in the Garden of Eden too.
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lol could be! I think he led himself. His epic probably wasn't as great as it was thought to be, noting that history becomes inaccurate over time. But hey, thinking he was led by aliens makes me laugh!