Posted by Jason on March 21, 1999 at 21:58:10 {MWAAV3SwHC4BQ}:
In Reply to: **Just Thinking posted by Er, Help! Jaypeeto on March 21, 1999 at 14:34:57:
Hi Jaypeeto, nice to meet you. :-)
"That's why it happened when he was in his thirties."
What did you mean by that? Just curious!
Jaypeeto :)
I believe what he was trying to get across is that when a person reaches his thirties, he/she really is considered an adult. I am in my 20's and many still consider me to be but a child. Namely the elderly that visit my store. But if I were in my thirties? Not many people, even elderly ones consider 30's to still be a child. By then you really have become an adult (or should have anyway). And especially in a culture such as that back then, a person in his twenties was still considered to be quite young. If Jesus had given a "willing" sacrafice at that young of an age, they would have said that he was not old enough to make such a decision and and would have brought reproach upon it, thus the sacrafice would not have been taken seriously.
However, as it was, it was in his thirties. Therefore there was no reproach, there was no need to not take it seriously, cause he was considered an adult, old enough to make decisions for himself. Now I'm not saying that a person in his/her twenties can't make decisions for themselves. But in the eyes of an older generation, many older persons don't take the actions of a person in his twenties as seriously as a person in his thirties.
I sure hope that makes sense. And if I'm wrong in my assumption MK, please correct me as to what you meant.
In Jehovah's Eternal Love,
Jason