Christ’s answer to the Camus's rebel questions \ stacker news ~ideasfromtheedge

Albert Camus writes:

The Christ came to solve two principal problems, evil and death, which are essentially the problems of rebels. His solution consisted first of all in taking on their condition. The God‑Man suffers also with patience. Evil and death are no longer absolutely imputable to him inasmuch as he suffers and dies. The night on Golgotha has so great an importance in the history of men only because the divinity, ostensibly abandoning its traditional privileges, lived through to the end the anguish of death and of despair.

This quote does not imply that Camus believed Jesus was God who became man. But in context, it is understood that if the story of the New Testament is taken as credible, then — according to Camus — Christianity would have provided a sufficient answer to human agony and suffering.

As someone who believes in the story of the New Testament, I believe Camus summed it up well.

What are your thoughts?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 2 Jul

Christ not only suffers with us, but for us. His death is not only exemplary, but expiatory and substitutionary. He does not simply share human suffering: he redeems it.

Camus might say "he touches glory," but without faith in Christ's divinity and resurrection, his analysis remains incomplete. Christian consolation lies not only in a God who suffers, but in a God who conquers, conquers death and sin, as Paul says, he conquered his enemies and publicly exposed them.