Whats the point in Jesus dying?

Question

This is very hard for me to ask this. Ok Jesus died on the cross to pay for our sins... why? Why would you have to kill yourself to pay for sins? So I'm saying that is their like some higher person that said "Hey if you want their sins to be forgiven (or whatever) I want Jesus to be killed!"
So God sacraficed his son... Why is the reason to do that!? Why would you need to kill someone, is he gaining power from doing that? Does it require alot of power to forgive sins? Gee Wiz! Whats the point in that! If you know what Im getting at. Think about it... You know what Im saying home-sicles. Or maybe I have this whole idea wrong. I admit I do not go to church or read the bible. But today I did because I was forced to. So ya thanks for reading and all that jazz.

Answer 1

Notice how people are not answering the question? Do you think they actually comprehend what you are asking? No, and their answers show they don't understand the question. But I do. And here's the answer:

Blood sacrifice is primitivism and father never asked for it. They murdered Jesus because he taught just that.

Answer 2

You are missing the whole point. I think that 99% of every person on the Earth is afraid of dying. The idea of a 'soul' is one way to think that there could be some part of a person that will exist after they die. But the only evidence that people had of a soul was ghost stories. And ghosts don't seem to be very happy beings, right?
Jesus died for one reason: So that he could come back as himself, and show everyone that after you die you don't turn into some weird piece of smoke or a green drooling blob. You are still yourself after you die. That is why He had to die. The religions of the world have taken up the idea that He died for our sins, and that if we follow their religion, and live the life the way they say, that he can go to heaven.

But that is not the point. Going to heaven is not the point. The point is that you exist after you die. As yourself, not some strange ghost. Isn't that the best news you could have? Doesn't it make you happy? The proof of life after death was worth it to God, and so He died, and came back from death to show us that it can be done, that we can do it too, that death is not the end of us.

Religions have used this act in many ways. You can think about it yourself, read about Jesus and try to figure it out for yourself.

There are many near death experiences where people have died, and come back saying they saw their loved ones over on the other side, waiting for them. Not strange ghosts or green blobs. Many people say they just hallucinated and did not die.

What do you think? If people continue to exist after death, what should they do to prepare for it? How should they live on this Earth? How should they treat other people, who will also live after death and meet them on the other side? So, there are lots of things to think about, right? If you can't think for yourself, then talk to others who know more than you and try to make sense of it all with them.

There is a religious link below, one of many. I am not recommending this religion over any other. Note that what they say includes the facts of the event, plus their interpretations and beliefs. It is interesting to understand that in order for a prophesy to come true that there has to be some connection between the present, the past and the future that exists outside of our current understanding of space/time physics.

Answer 3

Jesus sacrificed himself to pay for our sins, he knew that this was going to happen. Isn't it amazing that someone could LOVE you so much that they would die for you!!! He made it possible for us to be saved and to go to Heaven. I think you would probably understand it better if you were to read the New International Version of the Bible, It is the Same as the King James Version but written in plain English and is easier to understand, it reads more like a story. I have learned so much more since I started using it instead of the King James... GOOD LUCK!

Answer 4

It is a confusing topic for sure, and nobody knows all the answers except God. But depending on how you look at the cross, you can see that there are many reasons He might have died.

1. As mentioned above, His blood is an atonement for our sins. In the Hebrew world, God demanded blood sacrifice to cleanse people from sin. Why He did that is not known to me - I'm not going to claim to know the entire mind of God. Perhaps he wanted us to understand that sin and death are interconnected. Maybe there is something magical or spiritual in taking a life in this manner. Maybe the animal sacrifices were to mentally prepare us for Christ's death. At any rate, the rule or precedent or expectation was in place long before Christ came. With His death, we are all free from our spiritual death.

2. Christ lived in a human body and his life on earth had to end somehow.

3. His death and resurrection fulfilled prophecy that proved He was the Messiah.

4. But, the main answer to your question is that He didn't die.
His death set the stage for His resurrection. There were many many witnesses to his death and to his resurrection. He rose from the dead. He rose and showed Satan that He is all-powerful.
A magician can play parlor tricks. Prophets may perform some miracles. Some people even claimed to raise dead people. But what dead person can raise themselves? Has anyone else ever raised themselves from the dead?

Before His resurrection, people faulted in their faith. Peter was famous for this. But after His resurrection, people who saw Him understood. But He had to die to be resurrected, and He was resurrected to help some have faith in Him.

Answer 5

I am not going to throw a bunch of scripture at you. When Jesus died on the cross , he took all of the sins of the world on himself. This was a man who had never felt sins like temptation or lust or greed or anything that we feel daily. Jesus was not sent into to world to condem it but to save it.(John 3:17) Through him dying on the cross,he gave the rest of us a chance at repentance so that even when we die we still live. He was a sacrifice to the one true GOD. That is why he is called "the Lamb" all through the Bible.

Answer 6

Christ offered himself to GOD as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.
...so that all who are invited can receive the eternal inheritance
God has promised us. For Christ died to set us free from the
PENALTY of the sins we have commited in the first covenant.
Now when someone dies and leaves a will, no one gets anything until it is proved that the person who wrote the will is dead. Without the shedding of Christs pure blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Answer 7

exactly my point. why would Jesus have to die? well, in Islam, we believe that Jesus is only a prophet. we also believe that he is alive till this very day, however he lives in heaven and will come down when the time is right to kill the Antichrist. besides, if God wanted to forgive us that easily, He would have just done it. he doesn't have to kill his so called "son" for us to be forgiven. and even if Jesus did die for our sins, whats the point of heaven and hell?

Answer 8

Heb 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Satan rebelled and 1/3 of God's children followed. God's love was so great He could not let His children perish. That's what this flesh life is all about. A means for salvation and to defeat death, that is Satan.

Answer 9

Sin is such a serious matter that God said that only the consequence is death.

In the Bible, from Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden onward the blood sacrifice was required to pay for sin. When Adam and Eve sinned they took on a sin nature. That has been passed to all their descendents. As with all creatures we produce our own kind. Dogs have dogs, cows have cows, and sinful humans have sinful humans.

All the thousands of sacrifices that were made throughout the centuries were ultimately futile since the next moment you might sin again and be under the curse again.

It is impossible for us, with our sin nature to be completely obedient to God and His law. We cannot earn our way back into His presence. We are not capable of permanently paying the price to redeem us from eternal death, and eternal separation from God.

This realization is a chief distinguishing feature between Christianity and all the man-made or demon-made religions of the world. That you can never do enough, be good enough, work hard enough, to create your own salvation. You just cannot Earn it!

He had to make the way for us to get to Him. Jesus was born of a woman but He was not conceived by a man. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit. If He had been conceived by a man He would have had the sin nature passed to Him as well.

It is the father of any child who determines its blood. (Modern medicine has finally caught up to this fact.) This is the importance of the Virgin Birth. Jesus had to be born without sin. He had to live without sinning even once. Otherwise He would NOT have been worthy as the sacrifice necessary to pay our debt, owed for our sin. He was 100% God and at the same time He was 100% Man.

When He was crucified He was a willing sacrifice. He told us that He was laying down His life for us--that no one could take it from Him otherwise. With a spoken word He could have summoned Legions of Angels, armed for battle, to His side. He could have come down off the cross, Had He Chosen to do so.

BUT, glory to God, He chose to be the sacrifice, the ONLY WORTHY SACRIFICE in all of history who could once and for all forgive our sins and make available to us the way back to our Father in heaven.

All He asks is that you accept this fact and believe on Him and enter into relationship with Him.

AND HERE IS MY FAVORITE PART!!!!
If Adam and Eve had never sinned (they were created without a sin nature--perfect but with a free will,) and if none of their descendants had EVER sinned and if YOU were the only person in all of history who had sinned against God--He Still Would have come for just YOU!!!!!

In the Book of Luke, Chapter 15, verses 3-7 you find Jesus talking:
Then Jesus told them this parable: "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

Hope this helps you with understanding. Suggest you start reading in the Book of John, then Acts, then Matthew and so on. That will help you with much more understanding.

Answer 10

God is easy, life and Love. the daddy, Son and the Holy Spirit. the thought, word and Deed. The each little thing, No element and regardless of's in between. God is the solid, the undesirable and the grotesque. the sweetness, the frail and the solid. God is... and that's all this is needed to be pronounced. of path, he's all of those and a lot extra previous our comprehension. in spite of the undeniable fact that if I had to nail down God to a minimum of one element... Unconditional Love. advantages