The early Christians knew. His faith in a crucified God could only be regarded as a scandal and folly. Who had thought of saying something so absurd and horrific of God? Any religion ever has dared to confess something similar.
Certainly, the first thing we all discovered in the crucified at Golgotha, unjustly tortured to death by the religious authorities and political power, is the destructive force of evil, cruelty, hatred and bigotry lies. But that's precisely at that innocent victim, the followers of Jesus we see God identified all victims of all time.
Stripped of all power, dominion, of all aesthetic beauty of all successful political and religious aura all, God reveals himself in the purest and unfathomable mystery, as love and only love. Does not exist and God is never a cold, listless and indifferent. Only a God who suffers with us, our sufferings suffer and die our death.
The Crucified God is not a God powerful controller, which is subject to their sons and daughters are always looking for glory and honor. God is a humble, patient, respectful to the end of human freedom, but we abuse time and time again of his love. Prefer to be a victim of things rather than executioner.
The Crucified God is not God's righteous, resentful and vengeful that is still troubling the conscience of not a few believers. From the cross, God does not respond to evil with evil. "In Christ is God, not counting men's transgressions, but reconciling the world" (2 Corinthians 5.19). As we speak on the merits, faults or rights acquired, God is welcoming all its unfathomable love and forgiveness.
The Crucified God is revealed today in all the innocent victims. Is on the cross of Calvary and is in all the crosses where they suffer and die the most innocent: the starving children and battered women, tortured by the executioners of power, exploited for our welfare, those forgotten by our religion.
Christians continue to celebrate the crucified God, never to forget the "mad love" of God to mankind and to keep alive the memory of all crucified. It is a scandal and folly. However, for those who follow Jesus and believe in the redemptive mystery that lies in his death, is the force that sustains our hope and our struggle for a more humane world.
[Source: ecleSALia April 13, 2011. Domingo de Ramos (A) Matthew 26, 14 to 27.66].
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