In Christianity, why did god sacrifice himself to himself to appease a rule he created?

Question

Jesus is god right? He was ultimately died as a "sacrifice" to whom......god.....himself??! Why did he die? To allow humans to receive forgiveness of sins....from whom....god...himself??! Someone please clear this up for me.

Answer 1

What needs clearing up? It makes as much sense as anything else in the bible. Like god flooding the world because man has evil in his heart, then feels sorry and promises never to do it again because man can't help himself, he has evil in his heart.

Answer 2

Every religion asks something of its believers to make amends for wrongs they have done or just in reverence for the actual God. The reason was before that time the only way for anyone to recieve forgiveness for their sins was once a year they would be sacrifices to the temple & one person would take these sins & sacrifices behind a large curtain & it was called The Holy of Holies. Any who, when Jesus died the curtain tore from top to bottom & what this symbolized was that now everyone had the ability to talk to God directly & recieve forgiveness. Except for the Catholics but you'll have to ask someone else about that, I'm not Catholic.

Answer 3

ok Jesus is Gods son.

He is part of God, yes, and you can pray to him since he is part of God, but he was put here as a human so we could be forgiven.

God made the rules early on. If people sin there must be something done to grant forgiveness of sin. It used to be sacrificing animals but God realized that this was just not a good long term plan as the humans were having problems keeping up with all the sacrifices and rules.

So he sent his son to die for our sins. And in that selfless moment, we were granted forgiveness for all eternity as long as we ask.

So why couldn't he just change the rules? Well there must be someway in which we are granted forgiveness.

If you study the flow of earthly energy, you would know that the bad things you do, come back to you. And so do the good things. Buddhists call it Kharma. Whatever.

There has to be repercussions for your actions thats just the way this earth works.

And sin is something in which something has to die, unfortunately, because it is bad.

So God made his son do it. And Jesus knew it had to be done.

God can't all the sudden uproot the basic foundation of good and evil that the earth has been based on since the beginning of time. It wouldn't be fair to the earlier people, and God is fair. And it wouldn't then allow for humans to have free will if he eliminated good and evil.
And God again wanted to be fair and give us free will.

So good and evil had to remain and someone had to die for it.

Answer 4

Your right, it's kinda confusing. Jesus was both man and God. He is/was part of the Holy Trinity. But since Jesus was man, a perfect, sinless man, He was able to die for all of humanity. God required the sacrifice of a perfect person in order to save humanity and Jesus, being man AND God was the only one who could foot the bill.

Answer 5

Jesus is God's only begotten Son and God's Word in the flesh.

We are born with a sinful nature because of Adam and Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden. The sin of disobedience to God.

God created us for Him to love and for us to love Him. God had a plan before He even made us (because He had given us free will and didn't make us like robots),

This plan, was to send His only begotten Son, Jesus to the earth to become the ultimate and only sacrifice for our sins. That is that Jesus took our place of punishment because of our sins. God can't allow sin into heaven.

When we repent (turn away from sin) and accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are forgiven for our sins. Jesus, who was without sin, took our sins upon Himself and died in our place. We then are declared blameless for any thing we have said or done.

We are also covered by Jesus' blood for any sin that we will commit in the future. Jesus tells us that we are to love God with all of our heart, soul and mind and love other people as ourselves.

Answer 6

Jesus is God incarnate. He is still the son of God even though he is part of the holy trinity. God gave his son as a sacrifice for our sins. He died (his flesh body) so that we would be saved from the consequence of sin-death. He (God, Jesus) did this because he loves us, and so that we might glorify him. See, God is also a just God. Had he not given Jesus as a sacrifice, we would not be able to make it.

Answer 7

This is how it goes: Humankind sinned against God, and therefore owed God a debt. Since everyone owes, and no one has the power not to sin, no one can pay. The only one who can pay a debt for someone who can't pay is one who can pay. In other words, only someone who doesn't owe the debt can pay it off for somebody else.

Christ paid our debt, which none of us could pay ourselves.

It is arguable that God did not have mercy before he became flesh, walked in the flesh, and was subject to all the temptations that flesh is heir to--not to mention the fact that flesh dies. God did not have the experience of being tempted or dying before, since he is above temptation and unable to die. By becoming human, he could then know from experience what it was like to be tempted and to be headed for the grave. And out of this experience, mercy was born.

So, yes, Christ's incarnation allowed God's forgiveness of our sins.

Answer 8

alright, i'll try to make this short and sweet:

God is above all just. He creates rules based on His sense of justice, which when we look at it through logic, can be understood logically. He gives us also freedom of choice, whether we believe Him or don't believe Him, accept Him or don't accept Him. Along with being just, God is also loving and forgiving. Because we're stupid and make the wrong choices, and eventually realize we've made the wrong choice, God decides to forgives us, but He can't go against His rules to do it-- because of His uncorruptible sense of justice. Therefore, He finds a way to work inside of His rules... which is basically what the sacrifice of Jesus was.

If you want more detail, please message me.

Answer 9

some do declare that God's standards for justice demanded God's dying, a sacrificial dying to assuage himself -- i don't get it the two. A theory in accordance with a by ability of-the-Bible Sola Scriptura ideas-set with notetaking and good judgment functioning - exhibits that it became the son of God, son as in having God for Father - that's the sacrificial Lamb that pays for the sins of the international of believers.

Answer 10

"Judgement and wrath he poured out in Eden, Mercy and Grace he gave us at the cross." - Awsome God: Michael W. smith. I am a Christian. since it is obvious you are not, i will give you a "real life" situation. There are children, and that there was a robber in their parent's home. the parent has no phone, no means of contacting anyone. Would the parent say to the robber "Go, take this child's life instead of mine!" this is a parable. In this parable, the parent is God, the robber is sin, and the children are humans. God's love for us is that of the parent's love for their child.