If you were one of the soldiers at the death of Jesus.....?

Question

would you refuse to nail him to the cross and stop human kinds salavation or would you sin and let him kill him.

rattwagon you will not gain 10 points, your first answer was with a blank statement and have spend the last 30 or so minutes looking for your answer which is a cut and paste so that everyone will read it.

Answer 1

If I were a soldier back then, I probably wouldn't have the slightest idead that Jesus was the Way. Therefore, I would probably kill him thinking he's just another psycho who thinks he's the son of God.

Answer 2

If I were one of the soldiers at the death of Jesus Christ, I'd be Roman, which means that I'd act the way towards Jesus Christ that many Christians act toward Jews or Muslims, or anyone else that goes against the "established grain." Since I'd be a Roman soldier, there's a high probability that I wouldn't be a philosopher, so I'd just do my job, get paid, then go hang out in the barracks with my good buddies Octavius and Septimus, and maybe flirt a bit with the local hotties.

Answer 3

One of the soldiers (I believe, was saved there at the death of Jesus). If you remember the bible says that the soldier said "Truly this man was the son of God". I doubt that (the soldier) before that, had the revelation of who Jesus was. He was following orders, doing his job, and did not know who Jesus was. God knew who to put there so everything would go as planned. We know that God could have stopped it. Would I have nailed Him to the cross? (in a sense we did do it) or may as well of done it since we are the ones who needed to be saved. There is a song written by Jackson Leap that says something like," I wasn't the one who put Him on the cross but I was the one who drove the nails."

Answer 4

The Milgram experiment (Obedience to Authority Study) was a famous scientific experiment of social psychology. The experiment was first described by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, in an article titled Behavioral Study of Obedience. The article was published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology in 1963 and later discussed at book length in his 1974 Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. It was intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who instructs the participant to do something that may conflict with the participant's personal conscience.

The experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised the experiment to answer the question "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" (Milgram, 1974)

Milgram summed up in the article "The Perils of Obedience" (Milgram, 1974), writing:

"The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous import, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Oddly enough, they have done testing on conservatives and liberals. Right wingers continued to shock fellow humans at a much higher rate than those that subscribed to a liberal philosophy. The quandry that you pose is applicable to modern politics, too.

Answer 5

If you are truly religious then your answer, such as mine, would heve to be no. Everything happens for a reason and Jesus had told everyone what was going on. If you had refused to nail him up, you would be refusing to let him save all of our souls.
Of course I sure wouldn't have taken part in the insane amount of beating.

Answer 6

I don't believe most of those soldiers/guards knew that he was the savior . But if I knew then what I know now, I absolutely would refuse to nail him to the cross

Answer 7

Given the circumstances, I would not know he is the messiah, I would be doing my job, and I would most likely nail him to the cross. Unless, of course, I suddenly realize the inhumanity of such a horrid death and have a flash of guilt.

Answer 8

This concept of sin is entirely wrong.
What happened at that time was meant to happen. Father that Christ is mentioning is not the true god (ultimate).
There were many at the crucifixion. At least half of the job had been done by Christ himself. He have hold his hand, the soldier just hammer the nail.
All of them have had just done their job. Most of them were not aware of their doing.

Answer 9

i would probablly stop it. not because i believe in him but because i think its barbaric how they killed him. plus that would stop a hell of fights made by the religions based on jesus for power.

also it think that the story is not totally true but what they want you to beleve "he was a saint" . i believe theirs the real story of jesus writen by some of its followers if he accually had any, or soome third party. but its hidden in a top secret place by the religions based on him. so nobody knows the truth. or where burned.

Answer 10

At the time it happened no one truly knew who he was. So the answer if it was that time and I didn't know what I know now then it would be like any other execution and I would just be doing my job.