{"id":2485,"date":"2020-04-10T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2019-05-07T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:14:04","slug":"on-good-friday-gods-privilege-was-checked-at-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/10\/on-good-friday-gods-privilege-was-checked-at-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"On Good Friday God\u2019s Privilege Was Checked At The Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026the god-man suffers too, with patience. Evil and death can no longer be entirely imputed to him since he suffers and dies. The night on Golgotha is so important in the history of man only because, in its shadows, the divinity ostensibly abandoned its traditional privilege, and lived through to the end, despair included, the agony of death. Thus is explained the \u201cLama sabachthani\u201d and the frightful doubt of Christ in agony<\/em><\/p>\n

Albert Camus, Essais<\/em> (Gallimard, 1965), p. 444. Translated and quoted by Bruce Ward in \u201cPrometheus or Cain? Albert Camus\u2019s Account of the Western Quest for Justice,\u201d Faith and Philosophy<\/em> (April 1991): 213.<\/p>\n

(My hat is tipped to Timothy Keller for bringing this quotation to my attention).<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026the god-man suffers too, with patience. Evil and death can no longer be entirely imputed to him since he suffers and dies. The night on Golgotha is so important in the history of man only because, in its shadows, the divinity ostensibly abandoned its traditional privilege, and lived through to the end, despair included, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,6],"tags":[125,30,1165],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feasts-and-seasons","category-inspirational-sayings","tag-good-friday","tag-inspirational-sayings","tag-privilege"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}