f he took pleasure in bruising he Son you are saying he's sadistic and making him no better than one of the pagan gods. Eleventh provided a response which seems to have gone unanswered:
God had no pleasure in his death.
Getting off topic but ...
... perhaps a semantic issue .... this is the verse
Isaiah 53:10 Yet the Lord was willing
To crush Him, causing Him to suffer;
If He would give Himself as a guilt offering [an atonement for sin],
He shall see
His [spiritual] offspring,
He shall prolong
His days,
And t
he will (good pleasure) of the Lord shall succeed
and prosper in His hand. (AMP)
Yet it
pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief : when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. {thou...: or, his soul shall make an offering} (KJV)
Other verses presenting the fact that God plans and does things according to His pleasure.
Isaiah 46:9-10 "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else! I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,
My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure".
Ephesians 1:9 “Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, [or the secret of His will] according to
his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself” .... 11 In Him also we have [
d]received an inheritance [a destiny—we were claimed by God as His own], having been predestined (chosen, appointed beforehand)
according to the purpose of Him who works everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His will,
Acts 2:23 and Act 4:27-28 also state that God planned Christ death
Now, I don't agree with your conclusion that this means God is "sadistic and making him no better than one of the pagan gods". I don't think you think that either.
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