{"id":2707,"date":"2012-04-06T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2012-04-06T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T22:05:50","slug":"god-is-dead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/god-is-dead-2\/","title":{"rendered":"God is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is Good Friday<\/a>: the commemoration of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ at Calvary.<\/p>\n

Ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundi pep\u00e9ndit. Ven\u00edte ador\u00e9mus.<\/p>\n

B<\/span>ehold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the salvation of the world. Come let us adore.<\/p>\n

(Missale Romanum:<\/em> Friday of the Passion of the Lord)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ecce homo: Behold, the man<\/p><\/div>He was condemned by his own people, abandoned by his friends, sentenced to death by the Roman Prefect of Judea, Pontius Pilate. <\/p>\n

He was scourged, mocked, crowned with thorns, and ultimately suffered the most brutal death that the genius of Imperial Rome had devised.<\/p>\n

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It is finished.<\/p><\/div>\n

And why? I have written elsewhere on the Atonement<\/a>, but the Catechism simply says this:<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong><\/a> Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the cross as a living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the instrument of atonement for the sins of all men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is based on the words of Saint Paul: \u201c[Believers] are justified freely by God\u2019s grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as an expiation, through faith, by his blood\u2026” (Romans 3:24-25)<\/p>\n

He died for us. We killed him, and he died for us.<\/p>\n

All over the world, Good Friday services begin at 3:00PM local time, the hour of Christ’s death. From that moment until the Resurrection on Easter morning, in some true sense, God was dead.<\/p>\n