“Christianity alone among the world religions claims that God became uniquely and fully human in Jesus Christ and therefore knows firsthand despair, rejection, loneliness, poverty, bereavement, torture, and imprisonment. On the cross he went beyond even the worst human suffering and experienced cosmic rejection and pain that exceeds ours as infinitely as his knowledge and power exceeds ours. In his death, God suffers in love, identifying with the abandoned and godforsaken. Why did he do it? The Bible says that Jesus came on a rescue mission for creation. He had to pay for our sins so that someday he can end evil and suffering without ending us.”
- Timothy Keller, The Reason for God (New York, NY: Dutton, 2008), 30.
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I must say I love the quotes that you guys put up here daily. I have visited consistently for the past 6-8 months and must say that I have been blessed by your consistent efforts to point us to the Savior and to the gospel. It is truly a gift to me and I am sure others. Thank you for your labors.