Hello Planten,
Read this
wcg.org/lit/disc/07whydie.htm
“Anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse,” says Deuteronomy 21:23. Because of this verse, Jews considered any crucified person to be condemned by God. As Isaiah wrote, people would consider him “stricken by God.”
wwolverine, thank you for making it easy for me. I have visited that site and read 50% of the article. I post below a part concerning the curse of the death on the cross.
**Dying an accursed death
“Anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse,” says Deuteronomy 21:23**. Because of this verse, Jews considered any crucified person to be condemned by God. As Isaiah wrote, people would consider him “stricken by God.”
The Jewish leaders probably thought that Jesus’ disciples would give up after their leader was killed. And it happened just as they hoped — the crucifixion shattered the disciples’ hopes. They were dejected and said, “We had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel” (Luke 24:21). But their hopes were dramatically restored when Jesus appeared to them after his resurrection, and at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit filled them with new conviction to proclaim salvation in Jesus Christ. They had unshakable faith in the least likely hero: a crucified Messiah.
Peter told the Jewish leaders, “The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead—whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree” (Acts 5:30). By using the word tree, Peter reminded the leaders of the curse of crucifixion. But the shame was not on Jesus, he said—it was on the people who crucified him. God had blessed him because he did not deserve the curse he suffered. God had reversed the stigma.
Paul referred to the same curse in Galatians 3:13: “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.’” Jesus became a curse on our behalf so we could escape the curse of the law. He became something he was not, so that we could become something we were not. “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Thanks anyway. I cannot make head or tail of what is being said above. They are freely wandering into all fields and making special allowances only for Jesus against the explicit rules revealed by God. In the above colored part, I see and believe the first para only to be true and final. It was a belief of the Jews and that is why they were adamant that Jesus be crucified. Jesus knew all about it and wished that it should never be like that. He wanted to avoid the cup. i.e. death on the cross.
He knew well the consequences of death on the cross and prayed earnestly to his God to avoid what was coming. He did not want to die on the cross. He appealed to God and God listened to him and saved Jesus from death on the cross.
That is how we Muslims understand the episode of quasi (apparant) death on the cross. I do not want to disturb the feelings of any Catholic. But this what is causing so much rift between the Christians and the Muslims. Chistians agree that Jesus was killed on the cross and became cursed. But at the same time they do not want Jesus to be cursed person. So they try to throw the curse on those who tried to kill him on the cross.
It is not so easy to switch things around. The sripture is clear about any one dying on the cross will be cursed and far away from the blessings of God. The Muslims do not believe Jesus to be a cursed person.
Now I will try to read the rest of that article.
Once again, you read the poster wrong.