Acknowledging that for mortals suffering and death are unavoidable, however, Moltmann argued that they are not to be negated but redeemed. ‘God suffered in the suffering of Jesus, God died on the cross of Christ … so that we might live and rise again in his future.’19 God thus takes on the death that our mortality makes us die. And by taking on the very thing we fear, God undoes our need to be scared. Theism fails to fathom the Christian God precisely because the Christian God doesn’t need our protection.
