If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.

— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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