2006-08-23 01:26:09 · 9 answers · asked by sfinva 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks for the answers - How about in the New Testament Jesus came to redeem and give us new life - like the woman at the well --
2006-08-23 01:30:28 · update #1
The thief on the cross.
Its's impossible to think of anyone in a worse and more doomed position than him. He was at the very bottom of despair, being tortured on a cross, and at the very painful end of a wasted life. You can't get any lower than that. And yet from all of this, he was redeemed. You'll never find a greater example.
2006-08-23 01:31:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus
2006-08-23 08:31:48 · answer #2 · answered by prevails 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Other than Jesus, I would have to say the prophet Hosea.
Hosea's entire life was a walking metaphore for the people of Isreal. At God's command, he married a prostitute! They had 3 children, given really strange names as symbols of historical events and things about Isreal. Some of these children were actually the product of adultery, as Hosea's wife CHEATED ON HIM. She later left Hosea for another man, abandoning her children along with her husband, and ended up in debt, being sold as a slave.
Hosea bought her back, and took her back as a wife. He could have legally had her killed for her infidelity, but forgave her instead, as God commanded him.
In all of this misery, God was using Hosea and his life, to demonstrate His own love and heartbreak over the nation of Isreal. He (God) had taken a nation for His own special people, and revealed Himself to people who worshipped demons. He gave them a country, and a priesthood, and a religion that made them stand out among all the nations in the world. He made them prosperous. Their response was to eventually return to the worship of demons and the sacrifice of their children. God was telling Isreal that although they were being sold into "slavery" by their demon-gods, that He would buy them back for Himself, and spare their lives.
2006-08-23 08:37:20 · answer #3 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hosea, one of the minor phophets in the OT. He was married to a woman named Gomer who was sleeping with every man but him!! But he kept bringing her back and trying to redeem and forgive her.
2006-08-23 08:36:32 · answer #4 · answered by BAnne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Besides Jesus of course, my answer would be: the picture of Abraham offereing his only begotton son on that alter to die. God promised Abraham a son, and finally God gave him one, and one day God told Abraham to offer up Issac as a sacrifice. It was a test that Abraham passed.
So God gave up his only begotton son of God as a sacrifice to take our place.
2006-08-23 08:39:41 · answer #5 · answered by Miss America 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
St Paul. His conversion represent one of the greatest recorded. He went from persecutor of Christ and Christians, to being a staunch follower of Christ , and evangelist.
2006-08-23 08:29:19 · answer #6 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God, because he's in the bible too
2006-08-23 08:41:58 · answer #7 · answered by sg1alias 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think all of them did. But if you only want one, I will say its Elijah. He did everything according to God.
2006-08-23 08:28:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Job.
Trials and tribulations.
2006-08-23 08:27:09 · answer #9 · answered by Trollhair 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋