What a late God! (PDF)

They made Him a crown of thorns and put on His head. They all struck Him with
their hands and mocked Him. All the while, Judas was not the one suffering but
Christ, as God was cleverly waiting to outsmart them on the cross right? What
sense is in that?! The fact is that dying is easier to bear than bodily suffering.
Death happens in a blink while suffering lasts as long as one lives.
If Judas was ever to replace Jesus, it is just smart and wise to make Judas bear
the sufferings and then quickly put Jesus shortly before he finally gave up the
ghost on the cross.
If God brought in Judas after Christ had suffered mockery, shame, slaps, severe,
life threatening, and body damaging metal blows from the hands of the brutal
Roman soldiers, leaving His mother to grieve and wail as one pierced, I think God
was too late!
If there was no purpose to His suffering, a wise God would have taken Him before
they laid their hands on Him at all. You have a choice to believe what the bible says
which agrees with common sense or to believe the report of hell about the
crucifixion. Here is what Christ Himself said about His suffering.

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Luke 24:46-47; 'Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was
necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and
that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all
nations, beginning at Jerusalem.'

I have a few troubling thoughts to spew in response to such bold ignorant
assertions. My bible will be of great help here to capture what might have
evaded the mind that first conceived my first paragraph.

He said His suffering was necessary. And I hope you noticed that His death is part
of the suffering according to the verse above and the result of His death is the
remission of sins. This was why Christ died. His blood was shed for our sins and
when we believe in Him we obtain complete forgiveness from God. God didn't
take Him off the cross; rather He was the one who put Him on the cross for the
world.

esus didn’t die on the cross. It was all stage managed. God substituted
Him for Judas when He was on the cross. Sounds familiar? Interesting...

John 18:22-23; 'And when He had said these things, one of the officers
who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, "Do You
answer the high priest like that?" Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken
evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why do you strike Me?”
Someone slapped Him heavily.
John 19:1-5; 'So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. And the
soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on
Him a purple robe. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they
struck Him with their hands. Pilate then went out again, and said to them,
"Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no
fault in Him." Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the
purple robe. And Pilate said to them, "Behold the Man!”

Isaiah 53:4-6; 'Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet
we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was
wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the
chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own
way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.'
God put Him on the cross for you!
You have a choice to believe God was late or Christ died indeed and rose again for
you. I have rather believed...