Passages that you have wrestled (or struggled) with in your Christian life

[kyredneck]

Facing a truly difficult circumstance, ..facing separation from His Father.

Matthew Chapter 26

53​	Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

He could have asked His Father and gotten totally clear of the 'circumstance', but He chose to let things take their course.

I believe the cup was death:

Hebrews Chapter 5

7​	Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

His Father heard His supplication and saved Him from death; He raised Him from the dead.

 

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Matthew Chapter 26

53​	Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

He could have asked His Father and gotten totally clear of the 'circumstance', but He chose to let things take their course.

I believe the cup was death:

Hebrews Chapter 5

7​	Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

His Father heard His supplication and saved Him from death; He raised Him from the dead.

Death is separation from God.

 

[kyredneck]

Death is separation from God.

K. If that's as far as you want to take it.

The popular view of the passage is that Christ, in a moment of weakness, was asking to avoid the cross, but He wasn't asking that at all. V 53 confirms that.

Many of the passages from the Messianic Psalms confirms that also. He was asking to not be left in the grave, and He wasn't. God raised Him from the dead.