Informative Speech On Jesus Research Paper

Do you think it is more accurate to say that God saves us by personally suffering with us or by being above human suffering? How might Phil. 2 inform your answer?

I think Martin Luther had it (and many, many other things) right. You can't say that Jesus died for our sins and suffered on the cross and then say that God did not also suffer. If Jesus is God, if Jesus suffered so too must God have. Philippians 2:6-8 really sums it all up stating

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross (ESV).

It points out that He was in the form of God (was like God, of the same substance) He submitted to God taking the form of a servant, born into a human body like us and humbly gave himself for us dying on the cross. He allowed himself to be humble and suffer as one of us, to redeem us of our sins.

Do we face death boldly by knowing that God himself has died and been made alive or by the opposite, knowing that our God has always transcended death?

Because I am sure in my faith and believe that I have been redeemed in Christ, I can face death knowing that what follows after is life eternal with God. I am able to have this belief because of the fact that Jesus died and was risen again. Romans 10:9 tells us "Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." I think we can take solace in the fact that God does transcend death, however we are able to be comforted in the face of death knowing that Christ has died for us and was resurrected to redeem