Why is Good Friday ‘Good’? | Fox News

Two thousand years ago, humanity failed. A representative of the most powerful nation in the world folded at popular pressure and executed a religious teacher without guilt. That man’s own people had turned against him. Some of his closest disciples abandoned him or denied him. The angry crowds accused him and condemned him. The soldiers made fun of him, beat him and made fun of him.

This teacher was crucified, supporting one of the most former imaginable executions. However, the murdered man never returned the anger of those around him. Instead, he did what he always had. He overlooked all the pain, misery and anger directed towards him and offered forgiveness and grace.

That day, an innocent man died in a horrible way. Matthew’s Christian Gospel tells us that nature reacted in anguish, saying: “At that time, the temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks separated and the tombs opened.”

Faced with all the evil that natural and supernatural kingdoms could gather, the carpenter on the cross beat. (Fox News Digital)

The Christians of man venerate when the Son of God, a part of the Trinity, he himself descended to the darkest, most lonely and more bad places to absorb the punishment for the sins of an entire world.

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In the Christian tradition, we now refer to this event as “Good Friday.” What, exactly on that Friday, seems good?

Christians believe that Jesus’ history is the story of an almighty God who humiliated himself to incarnate with his creation fallen. Hey, being born from two poor teenagers. It arrived in a stable for animals. His coming was announced to the kings, queens or religious authorities, but to some simple shepherds.

He lived most of his life in the dark, a blue neck professional dedicated to learning a trade, loving others and learning the Scriptures. When he turned to the ministry, it lasts only three years. He never wrote a book. Little time passed with the rich and powerful, instead choosing the company of those affected by the disease, hunger and thirst.

In an era of genuine patriarchy and discrimination, he decided to consort with women, marginalized, prostitutes and patients. The apostles was not the strongest, but the weakest. Many were illiterate. But his weakness was the point. God has a sense of humor. It does not need strength or power, only faith.

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The Jewish people had waited a messiah with military authority. But Jesus never raised an army or wielded a gun. When one of his followers took arms and cut a soldier’s ear, Jesus scolded that follower and healed the injured man. Then, this almighty-made of God, died the death of a criminal outside a city on the periphery of the empire in front of a few followers and a tormented crowd.

Everything about Jesus was the opposite of what was supposed to be. So, isn’t it perfect that we now consider the darkest humanity of the dark day that has experienced “good”?

Etymological, the “good” on Good Friday means “God” or perhaps “holy”, but even those terms would represent a radical recovery of the day. Even those who deny the divinity of Jesus admit that their execution was brutal and unjustified. But just when their first followers turned one of the most frightening symbols of violence in history, the Roman Cross, a sign of fidelity and redemption, we have also chosen to see that Friday not for failures but by their grace.

What is Good Friday and why does it matter?

Humanity was in his sausage. But the almighty god of the universe was at his best. Hello, he suffered for us as a sign and a sacrifice. He taught about the sin that we, ourselves, could not erase. He endured pain and humiliation that we can never know completely to reach the abyss of the universe and remind us that he is noticing that we can do so badly that he cannot redeem. And three days after his execution he got up again, victorious about death itself.

And that’s why Good Friday was and is good. Because in our greatest despair, there are reasons to believe. In our darkest hours, there is light. Faced with all the evil that natural and supernatural kingdoms could gather, the carpenter on the cross beat.

God’s message for us is not that life is perfect. Nothing of the sort. The night is dark and full of terrors. There is evil in this world and an enemy that wads like a lion. We will suffer. But our suffering matters. Our sadness matters. Our souls matter.

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Upon entering this Holy Weekend, there is much to fear. Our world, as always, is deeply imperfect. There are those full of evil and are in destruction. Our bodies, despite our best efforts in longevity and well -being, are fading. The great nations will fall. Our victories are temporary.

But our suffering is also temporary. Our failures will not persist. Evil won the victory. Darkness will never extinguish the light. And there is a perfect creator of the universe that is with us, who has faced greater evil than us, who is committed to facing our demons with us every day.

A great Christian minister once told us about living together in peace and harmony. He asked for a time when “Justice falls as waters and justice as a powerful current.” Good Friday is good, because that minister was right.

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We may not see it in our lives. We can go through generations of darkness and despair. But those generations are a steam. Good Friday is good, because it was the day when all expectations and standards were set upside down and humanity was redeemed forever.

And the always paradoxic faith of Christianity argues that we can now see that day of death for what really sacrificed: eternal life.

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