Jesus revealed himself to those who rejected him.

I watched this epic blockbuster on the train. On the way through the train from Shaanxi to Henan, I watched a movie on MP4 for the first time. The subtitle of the 1959 film is called The Savior's Tale. In this film, Jesus appears only once before being nailed to the cross, when he is drinking water for Ben-Hur, through Ben-Hur's grateful eyes and the huge change in the facial expressions of the Roman soldiers, the Son of God appears to sinners; this is not A screen that can be easily described with an image. The director handled the absence of Jesus' face with great wisdom. Because "because of the doctrine of the cross, it is foolishness to those who perish, but the power of God to us who are saved." If Jesus had a face, he must be an ordinary human face, and the face of God cannot make all Those who saw it were enlightened. If God reveals himself never in the usual way, God as God is revealed only to his opposite, only to beings who do not believe in God and who have been rejected by God. Specifically, God was revealed in the cross of Christ, whom God rejected. Precisely because the world itself was turned upside down in sin, there was to be an atonement Lamb for all, slain, forsaken by God the Father, nailed to the cross, God's grace thus revealed to sinners, God's Righteousness is revealed to those who are unrighteous. And God's grace, through Jesus, also chooses those who curse the world. The foolish chosen and wise in the world are ashamed of it. The chosen, the strong, the weak in the world are also ashamed of it. The principle of the theology of the cross can only be that the divinity of God is revealed in the paradox of the cross. This makes what Jesus did a little easier: not the devout, but sinners, not the righteous, but the unrighteous knew Jesus, because among them he revealed the righteousness of divine grace, manifesting God's country. He manifests his identity among those who have lost his identity, among the lepers and the outcast and despised. recognized as the Son of God among those who have lost their humanity. This makes it easier to understand the theology of the cross in Paul's teaching about justification: in the revelation of the cross, God justifies those who do not believe in God, and always justifies them. In order to know the God who revealed himself in the crucified Christ, one must personally become the one who has lost God, giving up any form of self-mythology or any comparison of oneself to God. People must renounce any act of self-justification, and if they want to know the justice of God revealed among the unrighteous, then they themselves ought to belong to that unrighteous one. As in 1 John 3: 2: "We are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed; but we know that when the Lord appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is." 3:6: "Everyone who dwells in him He does not sin, but whoever sins has neither seen him nor known him." But unless the Lord is manifested in opposites, contradictory things cannot be agreed. 3:8: "It is the devil who sins, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared to destroy the works of the devil." Knowing God in the opposite of God means that the kingdom of God will come down to abandonment the dwelling place of the people on the earth. Because the Son of Man did not come to earth with the glory of the kingdom of heaven. The fact that the incarnated Son of Man was born in a manger is in itself an inconsistent contrast with God in traditional religions. And the love of Christ is not the love of the like and the good, but the creative love of the different, the foreign and the ugly.

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