The Cross Revealed Love, Not Divine Anger
- Bishop James W. Lewis CH
- Apr 3
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 6
Good Friday is one of the strangest names in the Christian world. A man is betrayed. Beaten. Mocked. Stripped. Nailed to a cross. And we call it good.
Jesus did not die because love failed. Jesus died because the world system could not tolerate a man who exposed its emptiness.
The cross is humanity saying, “We would rather kill innocence than surrender our madness.” And Christ, even there, keeps revealing God. Not revenge. Not curses. Not tantrums from Heaven. But mercy. Forgiveness. Presence. Endurance.
In Luke 23, Jesus says, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” That is not weakness. That is spiritual authority with steel in its spine.
A Course in Miracles points us straight into this mystery in Text, Chapter 6, Section I, where the crucifixion is not presented as God’s demand for suffering, but as a teaching demonstration that attack has no real power over the Son of God. That changes everything. Because then Good Friday is not about appeasing divine wrath. It is about exposing the bankruptcy of fear.
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