Does the Catholic Church teach that the early death of Jesus on the Cross, had been ordained by God the Father?
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We call Jesus the Lamb of God who gave himself up as a sacrificial offering for our sins. Incidentally, the Old Testament always insisted on the wholeness of the sacrificial lamb. For instance, we see at Leviticus 5:18
"He must bring to the priest an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock as a guilt offering. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the wrong he has committed unintentionally, and he will be forgiven. ""
We also see Abraham offering, in lieu of his son, the ram at Genesis 22:13:
" Then Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw behind him a ram in the thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. "
To the careful reader, the attribute `caught by the horns' has great significance, in that the body of the ram had not been mutilated and as such, it was an unblemished offering for the Lord.
True, Jesus had been scourged beyond limits before his crucifixion. But his physical body still had its wholeness till the time he gave up his spirit. Things would have been different if he stayed put on the cross like an ordinary criminal, with his body emaciated and shrunk, begging death to come take him, or in the alternative, was pierced alive for quicker death! Thus, there is ground for the thought that the early death of Jesus on the Cross had been divinely ordained.
Well, I know these are not the teachings of the Catholic Church. But, if someone could build on them, he/she is most welcome.
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The Catechism reads:
599 Jesus' violent death was not the result of chance in an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, but is part of the mystery of God's plan, as St. Peter explains to the Jews of Jerusalem in his first sermon on Pentecost: "This Jesus [was] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God." This Biblical language does not mean that those who handed him over were merely passive players in a scenario written in advance by God.
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