Redemptive Suffering

[Norseman82]

[quote name='dUSt' post='1102338' date='Oct 27 2006, 10:15 AM']
So, for all those that believe suffering by choice has no redeeming value... Are you saying that Jesus Christ did [b]not[/b] choose to be on the cross?

Or maybe you are trying to tell us that His crucifixion has no redeeming value...?
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I don't think that is a very good analogy. Yes, Christ could have chosen not to have died on the cross...just like a soldier could choose to disobey an order to take a hill while under heavy enemy fire, but then the mission would fail. Just the same, Christ was "under orders", so to speak; remember what He prayed to the Father: "If possible, take this cup from me" but then "not My will, but Yours be done".

A much better analogy would be St. Maximillian Kolbe, who volunteered to take the place of a condemned man with a family when the Nazis chose someone to be executed in retaliation for a prisoner escaping from Oświęcim (Auschwitz).