I mean people woud have belived in him there and then and they would have accept Jesus and his teachings, i mean wasn't that what Jesus would want to accept him and and raise People's sins, so why didn''t he use his powers to prove to people he is the Messiah at least then people would have repented their sins
2006-10-22 04:59:41 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
His sacrifice was for our sins, that we would be forgiven without question. He didn't want to die this way, if you remember, He asked God not to put this on Him. The fact that He did die for us, shows the power of love He has for us. It was the ultimate sacrifice. Who else is going to die for us, the way He did? I pray that God gives you the blessing of understanding...
2006-10-22 05:11:21 · answer #1 · answered by Milkaholic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people did believe in him then. He raised the
dead, and made the blind see. He did many healings.
Jesus did the Will of God, always. We will remember him FOREVER.
Jesus sits at Gods right hand. He is the Messiah.
If you want to be saved, repent of your sins and accept
Jesus Christ as your Savior.
No man come to the Father, but through the Son.
2006-10-22 05:25:57 · answer #2 · answered by elliebear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a God of Justice. He cannot just let mankind's sins go without payment. Jesus had to shed his blood and give his life so that our sins could be forgiven. He was the sacraficial lamb that stood in our place. He could not use his powers because he had to be obedient to his Father in Heaven and complete his mission that he was sent here to do. The last words that he uttered on the cross before he died were "It is finished."
2006-10-22 05:11:13 · answer #3 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why did God tell Abraham, sacrifice his only son Issac? Then, when God knew that Abe would, God stopped Him and said, God will supply a sacrifice?
Because God would sacrifice His only son on a tree.
Why were Jews told to sacrifice animals? Because, though they didn't know it (and still don't), they were looking forward to the sacrifice on the tree: Jesus. That's why God stopped Jewish sacrifice, removed the temple after Jesus was sacrificed.
God's ways are not man's ways. Jesus didn't come here to establish the Jews...but to establish the Kingdom of God. God only picked the Jews as a means to an end. God doesn't pick after the flesh. Yet, with the Jews, that is precisely what He did. And they troubled Him for thousands of years...and God complained about it. So, why did God pick after the flesh? A means to an end. (God picks after the heart...regardless if Jew or Gentile...God would never pick after the flesh! But, He did!!!!....why????)
The reason God is so mystic is because He is moral. If God wasn't moral, one day the sky would be blue, the next black, the next, checkered...whatever His whim was. You'd have one head today, fifty heads tomorrow.
God is wisdom and God has a delicate situation on His hands...He has to filter mankind through a sieve. That sieve is the cross.
I can go on and on about this and that. Truth is, God's morality is such that He had to first be a man, to make man. God is able to separate Himself, and remain one. This Jesus was a man, but God...that is why He is called the son and the remaining part of God: Father. This is why Jesus was man, yet God...men pray to God, thus Jesus prayed to God. One God, more than one part. Why? Again, God would not make a man, without first becomming one. God comes to our level...the nitty gritty.
If your god doesn't, you got the wrong God. Only One God does this: JESUS.
2006-10-24 05:24:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible verse below says DEATH is the wage of sin. Jesus had to die bec He wanted to save us fr our own spiritual deaths. He offered Himself as sacrificial lamb. Otherwise, all of us must die for our own sins. He's not really after showing off to people that He is the messiah. Primary purpose was to save ppl... After all, Jesus had done so many miracles prior to His crucifixion, yet not everyone believed. So even if he saved Himself fr the cross, its not a guarantee that all the people would repent. HIS DEATH and HIS VICTORY OVER DEATH WAS THE SUREFIRE THING TO OUR SALVATION.
2006-10-22 05:11:13 · answer #5 · answered by methodist 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christianity, for the most part, is based on the concept of Free Will. There is a choice to be made, and one of those choices is to believe that Christ was the son of God, sent to earth to suffer for our sins. There was someone at the time that thought that simple power should be used to get the people to return to God, but he lost a war fought over the question. His name was Lucifer.
2006-10-22 05:09:38 · answer #6 · answered by marvinm4u 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus used his "powers" to show people with an open mind and heart that he truly IS the messiah and the Son of the one true God.
In order for your statement/question to be valid, you have to completely remove the element of FAITH.
2006-10-22 05:57:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Question for me is why doesn't God speak or shake the earth to give us a wake up call right now? Is he sitting in his lazy-boy, with whatever pressed on a sort of remote while he is channel surfing through all the current programming on TV Earth? I don't know. It is the same reason he didn't use his ability before.
NOT HIS PLAN.
Who am I to second- guess God? People say that they would like to know, "What happened to my Cat?" or "Why did my son kill himself?" and most don't give your question any thought and probably wouldn't like or understand the answer. We have small minds. It is a miracle that we haven't blown ourselves up, yet. Hey, sorry. I am ranting. I'll leave it, though. I am as clueless as the rest.
2006-10-22 05:22:27 · answer #8 · answered by Charlie Kicksass 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He, Jesus came to live in your place AS you live, Romans 6:23 says The wadges of sin is death..., so when Adam and Eve first sinned, A death decree was made, its sort of like pulling a plug on A machine keeping you alive, death must happen, so also when mankind sinned, Jesus could NOT have saved both Himself and you, the services in place at that time that had folks bringing a lamb to be slain in the temple was pointing to when Jesus The Lamb of God was to be slain that is why the temple vail was torn, Jesus took your place so you could take His. Free bible lessons www.itiswritten.com God bless you.
2006-10-22 05:06:32 · answer #9 · answered by wgr88 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Because this way made for a better story. If the Bible just had God sympathizing with his creation because he made them unable to live up to his standards and just forgave them, then they wouldn't have gotten as many converts.
Religion likes to play on human insecurity to gain control of them. Humans are usually pretty insecurity about doing something that will offend someone, because of the consequences. If religion can make people believe they are in danger of offending an omnipotent deity, they will do what that religion tells them to do.
Therefore, in these stories, it has Jesus "demonstrating" how humans are supposed to behave so as to not offend their god. They also had Jesus suffer horribly in the story so that people would feel sorry that he had to take on pain because of bad things they did, themselves. This is very effective because humans have been emotional animals far longer than rational ones.
2006-10-22 05:01:34 · answer #10 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋