“Christianity alone among the world religions claims that God became
uniquely and fully human in Jesus Christ and therefore knows firsthand
despair, rejection, loneliness, poverty, bereavement, torture, and
imprisonment.
On the cross he went beyond even the worst human suffering and
experienced cosmic rejection and pain that exceeds ours as infinitely as
his knowledge and power exceeds ours. In his death, God suffers in
love, identifying with the abandoned and godforsaken.
Why did he do it? The Bible says that Jesus came on a rescue mission
for creation. He had to pay for our sins so that someday he can end evil
and suffering without ending us.”
— Tim Keller, The Reason for God (New York, NY: Dutton, 2008), 30
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