Let's say that you are a parent and one of your kids does something bad, but the other kid is nice enough to step in and take a spanking for his sib. If you spank the innocent child, have you committed a just act? I would argue that no, justice is when the guilty party receives his/her punishment. Simply needing *someone* to be punished isn't justice, it's vengeance.
So Jesus died for us? How is that just? God punished him, instead of us? But I thought that God always was just. How does this make any sense?
Deuteronomy 32
" 4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he."
Romans 3
25God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished 26he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus."
2006-09-17 03:22:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, it's not just, and the whole concept of someone dying for someone else's "sins" is absurd - and it's an insult to the idea of a good and just deity Christians claim to adore. The idea of "God" being capable of "wrath" which had to be appeased through some sort of sacrifice is pure fairy tale stuff.
2006-09-17 03:37:27 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jesus Died For Our Sins! That Should Show People That They Should Not Doubt, And That They Should Totally Believe,And Have Faith,Trust & Love In God/Jesus, Our Holy Savior!!!!! God, Gave His Only Begotten Son To Save And Make Everyone Aware That God/Jesus Truly Exist, And Loves & Watches Over All Of Us Tremendously, And Will Do Anything For Us, And Is Always Here To Help Us In Every Way!!!!!! And To Also Let Us Know That Having True Love,Faith,& Trust In Him & Others Will Always Help Us To Accomlish Task In Our Lives That Seems Too Us As Being Totally Impossible To Accomlish!!!!!
But Not Having Faith,Love,Trust, And Always Disagreeing With Gods Abilities Is Only Bringing This World Closer To The End Of Time!!!!!
God Bless!!!!!!
2006-09-17 04:33:31 · answer #2 · answered by bigred 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ROMANS 5
12-14You know the story of how Adam landed us in the dilemma we're in— first sin, then death, and no one exempt from either sin or death. That sin disturbed relations with God in everything and everyone, but the extent of the disturbance was not clear until God spelled it out in detail to Moses. So death, this huge abyss separating us from God, dominated the landscape from Adam to Moses. Even those who didn't sin precisely as Adam did by disobeying a specific command of God still had to experience this termination of life, this separation from God. But Adam, who got us into this, also points ahead to the One who will get us out of it.
15-17Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. If one man's sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God's gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do! There's no comparison between that death-dealing sin and this generous, life-giving gift. The verdict on that one sin was the death sentence; the verdict on the many sins that followed was this wonderful life sentence. If death got the upper hand through one man's wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?
18-19Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life! One man said no to God and put many people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right.
20-21All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn't, and doesn't, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it's sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that's the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.
2006-09-17 03:27:33 · answer #3 · answered by williamzo 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus did it by his own choice, that shows his true love for us. A child that is willing to take punishment for another is showing love for his/her sibling. If you are willing to suffer for another you love them right.
2006-09-17 03:25:50 · answer #4 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God took apone himself the sins of the world,
so there fore died for our sins.
2006-09-17 03:30:27 · answer #5 · answered by Angela J 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are doomed to frustration if you try to make sense out of religion - it is irrational.
2006-09-17 03:24:28 · answer #6 · answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes it is just. Just a load of rubbish
2006-09-17 03:27:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No, the Christian god is in no way just.
2006-09-17 03:23:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
definately not just
2006-09-17 03:25:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋