Answer to 1st True or False
FALSE: Jesus fully and completely suffered all things for your salvation and for the salvation of the entire world. He preached from the cross: "It is finished" (
John 19:30). The Greek word He used to say this can also be translated, "It is fully completed" or "What was owed is now paid in full." Thus, Christian suffering
makes no contributions at all to the suffering of Christ.
When Paul says, "I do my share... in filling up that which is lacking in Christ's afflictions" (
Colossians 1:24), he does not mean that Christ's suffering is unfinished or incomplete. He is speaking instead about the suffering of the church, which he also calls, "His [Christ's] body" (
Col. 1:24). The church's suffering at the hands of the world will not be complete until the Last Day.
