A year ago I posted a blog entitled ‘Catholic Church should stop crucifixion, self-flagellation.’
Every Lenten season we see real simulation of self-castigation by fanatics as their way of atoning for their sins.
To these ill-advised penitents, their ignorance about the significance of Christ’s death on the cross has made their own painful acts nonsensical, as it is unwarranted, making the whole tableau pitiable and sadly entertaining only to the curious foreigners.
If these seemingly remorseful ‘devotees’ does not know any better, who would come to explain to them their anomalous actions in relation to the real Christian beliefs and give them enlightenment and relief?
Yes, that is right, the Catholic Church and its hierarchy. It is their mandate to educate the faithful about the beliefs and teachings of the Christian religion. It is their responsibility to preach and make known that man’s own crucifixion, in this day and age, is nothing but absurdity and distasteful spoofing of Christ’s greatest sacrifice made for humanity on the cross.
It behooves on the Catholic Church hierarchy, therefore, that understanding and conviction are well ingrained in the minds of the religious about the meaning/purpose of Christ’s death on the cross.
Christian theology teaches that Jesus Christ’s death provided the perfect atoning sacrifice for the sins of all mankind.
The death of Jesus was a unique, one of a kind, once for all death that ransomed mankind from sin and satisfied the righteousness of God and made it possible for man to once again have a personal relationship with God.
We are told two truths concerning the meaning of Christ’s death. It was for sins. It was for the unrighteous. It was punishment for sins and yet we have already seen that Christ did not sin. So whose sin was He punished for? We are given the answer. He was punished for the sins of the unrighteous. When he died, He was acting on behalf of others. And this pleased His Father so much so that His resurrection followed.
For someone, therefore, to be nailed on the cross to save himself from sin – past, present and future – and his family from any form of sickness is a folly, and if at all, a wishful thinking.
It has already been done. It will serve us well to meditate Christ’s passion and death on the cross.
We only have to understand it, believe it, and live by it.
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