Jesus and his sacrifice (see details)?

Question

As explained in another question, I don't go to church but am by nature a curious and detail orientated person. Christians always state "Jesus died for our sins so people can be saved". Why was it necessary for Jesus to be sacrificed and what if he never allowed it to happen?

I just don't understand what preceeded this event. Not to be sarcastic because I'm dead serious here, but did God say "I will kill all human life unless my son dies for these sinners!"

Part 2 "How was God born? Who preceeded him and why is he/she not God?"

Are my questions directly answered in the bible?

Answer 1

Why Jesus died for our sins: (With scriptural references)

Do not allow yourself to be mistaught by the hypocritical church leaders of our day, God is a lover of justice (Psalm 37:28) You mentioned in your question that God would kill all human life unless his son dies for sinners. I ask, please, that you would read the scriptures in this answer, so that you can better understand my answer.

Adam and Eve, the parents of all mankind were created perfect, as all of God's creations are. However, God gave Adam, as well as all mankind, free will: the ability to chose for ourselves whether we want to do good or bad. God wanted mankind to serve him not because they were programmed to do so, but because they love him. Our lives are not pre-programmed like some churches teach, but Deuteronomy 30:19 disproves. In the Bible book of Genesis, chapter 2 and verses 16, 17 God told Adam not to eat from a certain tree in the paradise garden home. That tree was to stand as a symbol of God's severignty, or right to make laws for his creation. Adam and his wife Eve rebelled against God, chosing to listen to Satan rather than God. God had previously told Adam that death would overtake them should they eat from the tree. Adam knew what he was doing when he ate from the tree. Even though he was created perfect, he used his free will to disobey God. He wanted to do things his own way.
So where does Jesus come into play? After Adam sinned, he was no longer a perfect person. The word 'sin' means to miss a mark, in this case Adam missed the mark of perfection. Adam was now a sinner. The bible states that sin is what causes death (Romans 6:23) That is why humankind dies today, because since Adam is the forefather of everyone alive, we've inherited the sin and death from him, just as Romans 5:12, and Psalm 49:7 show.
Like I mentioned earlier, God is a lover of justice. He could not simply pardon the rebellion as if nothing had happened. That would undermind his sovereignty. At the same time, he would not destroy Adam and Eve. He had asked them to fill the earth with their offspring and that would defeat his purpose. Being a God of perfect justice, the price paid for Adam's sin had to equal what was lost: perfect human life. But since all mankind were all sinners how could this be accomplished?
Adam lost perfect life by sinning. Jesus bought that back with his life by remaining obedient until death. Satan believed that he could get any perfect person to turn away from God. He was able to get Adam. Jesus never gave into the Devil, even though it meant giving up his life to remain obedient to God, something Adam didn't do. Therefore, through the sin of Adam everyone is dying, however, through the act of obedience of Jesus, those exercising faith in him can have what Adam lost: perfect human life. Romans 5:18, 19; John 3:16
Jesus loves his Father very much and was pleased to do this. By remaining faithful to death, Jesus proved that it was possible to remain faithful to God under trail (Matthew 4:1-11) After Jesus death and resurrection, his Father appointed him to an even higher position than he had held before (Matthew 28:18)
In order to benefit from what Jesus did, we have to remain obedient to God and do what he asks, an refrain from doing what pleases ourself like Adam did. Jesus set the model for us to walk in this regard (Romans 15:3)

Answer 2

A sacrifice was necessary because:
God's justice demands that a sinner must die (Romans 3:23; 6:23).
This leaves everyone condemned to die. Man is in a dilemma. No one can pay the penalty and settle the matter.

Then, God's love makes a provision (Romans 5:8). He provides a suitable substitute. A sinner can not pay for another sinner. So, Jesus, the sinless perfect one (John 8:46; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1Peter 2:22). Here the judge Himself became the object of judgment. Since God cannot die He had to become a human to die, that is Jesus the God incarnate (John 1:1-5, 14).

Thus Jesus paid the penalty for the sins of the human race and satisfied the justice of God. Now when I put my trust is His death on my behalf, God declares that I am righteous and accepts me as sinless- not because of anything that I ever did, but just because of my accepting what Jesus did on the cross on my behalf (1Corinthians 15:3-6; Romans 5:1; 8:1; Ephesians 2:8,9).

Now, if Jesus did not die for mankind, the entire human race would have been under condemnation. His death has opened a way for all. However, the choice is ours.

Part 2
God was not born, He always existed, He is self existent. He is the source of light and life. He created everything. He is the beginning and the end, there is nothing before Him or after Him.

Your questions are answered in the Bible. So, open it and start discovering the answers.

Answer 3

Adam and Eve (the first humans) sinned against God by eating from the tree of knowledge of good and bad. As a result, man broke direct communication with God and the gates of heaven were closed to man.
Then God, infinitely loving, sent his son Jesus Christ to earth. Jesus was born of a woman through the intercession of they holy spirit. Therefore he was fully God and human at the same time. Jesus paid the punishment for humanities' sins by dying on the cross. Three days later Jesus was resurrected and broke the curse of death and re-opened the gates of heaven once more. If it hadn't been for Jesus' sacrifice humans could never reach God and would go to hell forever.
2. God is a trinity. Three divine persons. God the father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the holy spirit. They are all equal and have an eternal relationship.
3. God didn't need to be born. He always was, is, and will be. This is something that the human mind can't understand. But God in his infinite splendor can accomplish the unimaginable.

Answer 4

If you read the Bible, the main theme is salvation. We know there is right and wrong and God, on numerous occasions, bailed His people out of destruction. And without fail His people turned their backs on Him and He lovingly forgave them each time. Before Jesus, His people never had direct access to Him (God the Father). The people always had to go via a high priest and with animal sacrifices. When Jesus died on the cross He was the perfect sacrifice because 1. He was the only begotten Son of God and 2. he was without sin; perfect. Jesus gave way to us having direct access to God; to have a personal relationship with Him without the high priests and animal sacrifices. Jesus could have turned away from sacrificing Himself but He did not. He loves us that much. God was not born and will never die. He is eternal which means He was always there and always will be. Difficult for us humans to wrap our brains around, hey. These are common questions and I sometimes still ask them. The word of God is Law and God does not lie. Pray over what you read and ask the Holy spirit to lead you to the truth. God bless.

Answer 5

Qurran (Muslims Holy-Book) says that Jesus (Isa in Islam), never died. God lifted him up to the heaven, and the person who died was his duplicate copy by face. Isa will return back to the world before end of this world. God is only one who knows of the past and future.

Part 2: God has given limited knowledge to human kind. There are many hidden secrets in this universe out of which some are out of reach of human kind. God is only One. God has no son, no partner.

Answer 6

I'm not a christian, and have no religious point of view, but I can say something to try an answer for your question.

In the matter of god was born, I'll refer to the Muslim notion about being Jesus a prophet not a god. This is not only a Muslim idea, but in the matter of fact, that was the old belief of Christianity. And for Jewish, they didn't believe in Jesus at all.

Also, only the church says that Jesus died. But other religious sources say that he didn't die, but summoned to sky.

The idea of sacrifice is, people can not endure to fight for the true beliefs, they're full of sins, and they can't be saved.
Jesus went to the cross to make them pure again. To stop their pain, and to give them an example of sacrifice for the haven.
His death is a spiritual force for his followers, to make him re-born by making Earth a suitable place for him, and fighting Satan for that.

Answer 7

yes, they are in the bible.. Except who created God--the best answer for that hard one is in Genesis chapters 1 and 2--but is vague.
Jesus knew his fate b/c God planned it and he knew that would happen.
In the old testament part of the Bible, people could get forgiveness of their sins by sacrificing animals to God.
In the new testament, Jesus was born to save us from our sins--that meaning that he was and is the ultimate sacrifice. So after that , people no longer had to sacrifice animals to be forgiven, instead they could pray and ask Jesus to forgive them. People who accept Jesus and have faith and pray and ask for forgiveness, will be saved--if they ask Him to sincerely save them and lead a Christian life. I hope this helps. :)

Answer 8

Your questions are directly answered in the bible.


Question 2) There was nothing before God. God was not born. No one proceeded him. That is, in part, why he is God.

Question 1) This question is what theologians refer to as the economy of salvation.

Jesus was a Jew. Keep that in mind.

Christianity, like Islam, has it’s roots in Judaism.

Under Jewish law, or God’s law, when one sinned, one must make a sacrifice, or atone for that sin. Because in order to be holy, and justified in the eye of God, one must remain sinless – any sin then was sufficient to make one less than perfect, less than holy, and unjustified. Only after a sacrifice were the scales balanced, and justice could be understood to have been carried out.

The idea is that in sinning one was very literally surrendering one’s own life in payment for the sin, or violation of the law. That is a pretty steep fine.

The question soon arises however, about those who are unaware of their sin, or of those who die before they are able to get to the temple to make the proper sacrifice. In the case of those who have died in there sins – without having been ransomed by a sacrifice of some sort – what is to happen?

There is also the sticky issue that – because one sin is enough to make one imperfect, and unworthy – there is no difference in the sentence for one sin, or one billion sins. It seems unfair, but it makes sense – and works out quite nicely for us.

Enter Christ.

Because he lived a sinless life, and was able to die without the need of sacrifice, he was Holy – justified – worthy – he was ALSO of infinite value – the only person not in need of saving. Because everyone else died for their own sins, no one else could accept the sins of others – BUT – because Christ did not die for his own sins he COULD accept the sins of others. Because he could accept the entire worlds sins, as easily as he could any singular sin – as the penalty is the same for one or one billion – Christ is able to be the sacrifice for everyone – everywhere – through all time.

It all gets back to that Jewish sacrificial lamb thing. Jesus is just the ultimate lamb.

Answer 9

Good question and thanks for being honest and not blasphemous.

We are all sinners by nature. (All have sinned and fall short of God's glory Romans 3:23)
Romans 6:23 tells us the wages of sin are death and the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. Because of our sins we deserved to die. God wants to forgive us but is righteous and cannot let sin go unpunished. So He sent His Son to die in our place for our sin. He lived a perfect and sinless life so He could be our substitutionary sacrifice. In His death and resurrection we find forgiveness of from sin salvation from hell eternal life in Him and freedom to live for Him.

All who call on His name will be saved.

Second God is eternal. He lives ouutside of time and space. we are confined by time and space. Nothing came before God because that would put God within the confines of time and He exists eternally apart from that. I cannot fully explain that but thats how it goes.

Yes! All the answers you need for life are in the Bible. Check out John 3 and Romans 3 for the Salvation and why did Jesus die quesitons.

Genesis 1:1 speaks of how God created time and only one who exists outside of time could then create time. I could not create a car I was already sitting in.

Answer 10

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Nobody answered:

"Why was it necessary for Jesus....?"

Well, they said things about it that were nonsensical.

How is it just for someone to be punished, for what someone else did?

How does this make any sense?

Since god is supreme, who could demand this injustice of him? Nobody?

Since god is all powerful, why couldn't he forgive sins without the Jesus scenario?

The pope forgave the man who shot him. Is the pope stronger than god?


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Answer 11

Jesus died for our sins so we could be saved spiritually, not physically. God was not going to kill everyone. On the cross, Jesus took our sins as his own. Even though he was sinless, He suffered for us.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says:

Jesus did not experience reprobation as if he himself had sinned. But in the redeeming love that always united him to the Father, he assumed us in the state of our waywardness of sin, to the point that he could say in our name from the cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Having thus established him in solidarity with us sinners, God "did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all," so that we might be "reconciled to God by the death of his Son."
God takes the initiative of universal redeeming love

By giving up his own Son for our sins, God manifests that his plan for us is one of benevolent love, prior to any merit on our part: "In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins." God "shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us."

At the end of the parable of the lost sheep Jesus recalled that God's love excludes no one: "So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish."He affirms that he came "to give his life as a ransom for many"; this last term is not restrictive, but contrasts the whole of humanity with the unique person of the redeemer who hands himself over to save us. The Church, following the apostles, teaches that Christ died for all men without exception: "There is not, never has been, and never will be a single human being for whom Christ did not suffer."

God was not born. He has no beginning and no end. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
Jesus, the 2nd person of the Trinity was born and the story is well known as the Christmas story.