Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 138
? 138 they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteous- ness that he hath done he shall live. 1 Read also 2 Chronicles, chap. 7, verses 12–14; and Isaiah, chap. 55, verse 7, in which humility, prayer, the seeking of God’s face and the forsaking of the way of wickedness and unrighteousness are the means by which sins might be forgiven. The death of Jesus on the cross, therefore, as Christians believe, is not the means by which sin can be forgiven. It is in itself a great sin to believe that Merciful God shed the blood of an inno- cent person for the sins of others, and cursed him. I tell you in all sincerity that Jesus, if he were crucified not once but a thou- sand times, could not by his death redeem the people of their sins. How appropriate it would be for us to escape the punishment of our sins, to accuse God’s beloved prophet Jesus of being cursed by the death on the cross, which means that his heart abandoned God and he became disobedient to Him. One of the purposes why God has sent the Promised Messiah in this age, is to exon- erate Jesus from the curse of the death on the cross. This is God’s will and His will be done. The time is coming when all Christians, gifted with reason and wisdom, will give up all irrational dogmas borrowed from paganism. Jesus was but a prophet of God whom God saved from the accursed death on the cross and caused him to die a natural death like other great divine prophets. 1. Ezekiel 18:20–22