To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (32868 ) 9/28/2001 1:38:58 AM From: Jamey Read Replies (1) | Respond to Mitch, so you discount the entire New testament as being written after the fact so that the prophets and Jesus looked as if their visions of the future from God was just a hoax? Wasn't it an offense punishable by stoning and prophets were expected to make short term prophesies during their lives along with long-term prophesies? The low condition he submitted to, and his appearance in the world, were not agreeable to the ideas the Jews had formed of the Messiah. It was expected that he should come in pomp; instead of that, he grew up as a plant, silently, and insensibly. He had nothing of the glory which one might have thought to meet with him. His whole life was not only humble as to outward condition, but also sorrowful. Being made sin for us, he underwent the sentence sin had exposed us to. Carnal hearts see nothing in the Lord Jesus to desire an interest in him. By how many is he still despised in his people, and rejected as to his doctrine and authority!
