Did Christ come to go to the Cross?

[lrs68]

He came to fulfill prophecy and accomplish the plan of God.

[Michael37]

17 minutes ago, lrs68 said:

He came to fulfill prophecy and accomplish the plan of God.

Yes, the two components, prophecy and its fulfillment, are significant topics.

The former is given and the latter is received.

To walk by faith is to appreciate the interaction of Divine Foreknowledge with Divine Predestination intrinsic to the Word of God.

Eph 1:3-12  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;  (4)  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;  (5)  having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,  (6)  to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,  (7)  in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,  (8)  which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,  (9)  making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him  (10)  to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;  (11)  in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;  (12)  to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

[Logostician]

Jesus was born (in the flesh) to die, so we could live.  He is eternal.  We are not.  Unless we embrace him.  Completely.  He lowered himself to come down from heaven, and be among us, to lift us up to his perfect kingdom and company.  Eternity in a sin filled world would be meaningless, like unto hell.  But eternity in the company of Jesus is everything.

[Your closest friendnt]

17 hours ago, Vine Abider said:

Yes. That was he purpose of the cross on one side - what is the purpose going through it to the other side?

Jesus said to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus the first day of his resurrection. Don't you know that scriptures say that Christ had to suffer first before He receives his Glory. 

Edited January 8 by Your closest friendnt

[Vine Abider]

7 hours ago, Your closest friendnt said:

Jesus said to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus the first day of his resurrection. Don't you know that scriptures say that Christ had to suffer first before He receives his Glory. 

Was His glory the ultimate goal, or our glory?

[Vine Abider]

14 hours ago, lrs68 said:

He came to fulfill prophecy and accomplish the plan of God.

And what was the plan of God?

[Your closest friendnt]

57 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

Was His glory the ultimate goal, or our glory?

Our Glory is part of His Glory. So both at the same time. 

He can have us as His children through the work on the cross and he can take us in Heaven in his inheritance from God but one of the biggest things is that he can keep us and never loose us and no one can take us from him. God made him our Judge. The one whom God made the Propritiation for our sins and died on the Cross God made him the Judge of all and the people who are in his righteousness by faith alone. We are safe. 

We are accused even by our own Pastors but we are safe. We are in his righteousness by faith Alone. 

[Cntrysner]

1 hour ago, Vine Abider said:

And what was the plan of God?

I would say, to make man in His image.

Gen_1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: 

[Your closest friendnt]

1 hour ago, Vine Abider said:

And what was the plan of God?

From the  beginning of the world God had a plan to open the way to Heaven for mankind through the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross. 

[Your closest friendnt]

25 minutes ago, Cntrysner said:

I would say, to make man in His image.

Gen_1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: 

God had a plan to make man in the Image of his Son Jesus through Jesus obedience all the way to die on the Cross. Through the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross. 

To have children through Jesus Christ sacrifice on the Cross who shed the blood of the New Covenant for the forgiveness of sins in his blood.