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Luke 22:42
: Saying: “Father if thou be willing, remove this
cup from me, nevertheless not my will but Thine be done.”
(This cup is the cup of death.)
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. Jesus’s prayer not to die on the cross was accepted by God,
according to Luke, Hebrews and James. Then how could he
still die on the cross?
(Luke 22:43):
“And there appeared an
angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.” (
Hebrews
5:7
): “Who in the days of his flesh, when he, Jesus had
offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and
tears unto Him that was able to save him from death, and
was “
heard”
in that he feared.” It means that an angel
assured him that God would not let him die. The word
“heard” whenever it occurs in the Bible means that the
prayer was accepted.
Jesus’s prayers were
“heard,”
meaning that it was answered in a
positive way by God WHO SAVED HIM FROM DEATH. (
James
5:16
): “... The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much.” Jesus himself said in
(
Matthew 7:7.10
) “Ask, and
it shall
be given you, seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you; for every one that asketh receiveth, and he
that
seeketh, findeth, and to him who knocketh it shall be opened. Or
what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give
him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?”
Question
: If God, according to Jesus, definitely accepts and
answers a righteous man’s prayer, then surely Jesus’s prayers
were also answered,
including the one not to die on the cross
.
Was he not a chosen one of God
? How could his prayer be
rejected, and he still had to die on the cross after he prayed for
safety and was informed that his prayer was “heard”? It does
not make sense
. Look to the example Jesus (pbuh) uses. If a son