If God has the power to forgive all sins and is all powerful. Why would he sacrifice his son in order to forgive our sins. Being a mother it is very hard for me to understand how a father who can say "I forgive you" and put any symbol that would last an eternity on this earth, would have us kill his child.
Isn't this the same God that stopped a human from making a sacrifice of his son?
2006-10-29 05:34:41 · 14 answers · asked by touristonearth 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am so glad that there are people who are starting to ask questions! If everyone would take time to reason, to think things out there would be a better understanding. This whole trinity thing does not make since to me either. Jesus did not come to be a god or die for our sins, he came to spread the word of the Father that we all are brothers and sisters. That we all should work for the common goal of loving and living together in peace and to progress. I'm with you I see no reason for that sacrifice, but as we know the people behind the roman church are the ones that used Jesus as a martyr. Remember He was pulling people away from the church. Religion cant afford that how would they survive? Who would support them?
2006-10-29 06:15:47 · answer #1 · answered by free spirit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's standard of justice is perfect. In the beginning Adam a perfect man sinned and as a result passed on sin and death to his children. [Rom5:12] Because God's justice is perfect it requires an equivalent life to be given to equal the one that was lost. [Rom 6:23] It may seem unfair but this wasn't an innocent baby being murdered. The bible shows that Jesus lived before coming to earth. [John 8:58] And remember that God promised to resurrect Jesus, which He did.
Through out the bible from the nation of Israel to Jesus, the use of blood in sacrifice was always sin atoning. That is, when a sacrifice was made it covered, or forgave sin. Because Jesus was a perfect man his death could perfectly cover over the sin of Adam and give mankind the hope of returning to perfection during Christ's millennial reign. The question is not so much of why God paid such a high price for us, rather it's a case of how much do we appreciate it by the way we live?
2006-10-29 05:51:11 · answer #2 · answered by NDK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a Spirit.
He decided to manifest Himself in a physical way, as a human being.
Jesus is that human being. Fully God, and fully man.
In Genesis, it was established that sin required a blood sacrifice for forgiveness.
No earth-born sacrifice was sufficient to forgive sin, so God created a perfect man, Jesus to become that perfect sacrifice.
God knew that upon the sacrificial death of His begotten son, that He could raise Him up again afterwards. So, the pain and suffering endured by Jesus was temporary, and He now reigns on a heaveny throne.
Now we get to proclaim Jesus' perfect death as payment for our sins.
2006-10-29 05:59:31 · answer #3 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we have to start with the concept of sin. If you read the bible, you'll see that there was a blood sacrifice required of the Jews in the old testament. But this blood sacrifice only "covered" their sins....it did not remove them. When Jesus went to the cross, He was the final and perfect sacrifice, the lamb without spot. You're right in wondering how God could allow His only son to be sacrificed for our sins. The answer to that is found in John 3:16 "for God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that whomsoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life". He loves us so much He allowed Jesus to spill His own innocent blood to cleanse us from our sins.
And yes, God stopped Abraham from killing his son....to show His mercy....God sacrificed His son, Jesus...so that none of us will ever have to die (eternally) if we believe in Him.
2006-10-29 05:40:12 · answer #4 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning God had us In paradise but man sin and God exile him from paradise because of it disobedience but Hi love man very much and want for him to come back to paradise so man just had to do better or be justified. Man had the change to do better God give commands for man to follow but once again man kind would not try hard enough so God did some thing even more to help us and His son was the ultimate sacrifice, it was not than Hi would not love his son but Hi knew His son would be successfully and give Man even an easier way to come back to heaven. So there is more than just forgiving people for their sins, in order for people to get to heaven they have to repent for their sins and accept Jesus as their savior, you see is more like a selection of who goes to heaven God don't let everybody in because it is going to be somewhere special and were bad people wont hurt his people anymore.
2006-10-29 06:38:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was/is God's son - but the payment for sin is a high one - the death, buried and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ - that is only way to pay for sin - a Lamb, unblemished, without sin - no other sacrifice would do. Does God not love Jesus? Absolutely he does and Jesus Christ laid His life down - He gave it willingly. God is loving - He authored love - but He is also a just God - the Bible say "His judgement is without mercy" - but remember He is so merciful - He does not wish that anyone would perish. I hope this helps. Don't let the devil cloud your mind and eyes from seeing the Truth - Jesus Christ.
2006-10-29 05:46:22 · answer #6 · answered by jworks79604 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea that Jesus' suffering and death was some sort of moral equivalent of a financial transaction -- in other words, we owe God a debt, due to our sinfulness, that we can't pay, so God sent Jesus to pay the debt for us -- is only one way to understand Jesus' death. For millions of Christians in the Eastern Orthodox tradition -- arguably the oldest Christian tradition -- that's never been a way they've understood Jesus' death. And for a lot of mainline Christians that's also not the primary way to think about Jesus' death.
In the mainline Christian circles where I hang out, the Christus Victor theory of atonement is a more common way to think about Christ's Passion -- that his suffering, death and resurrection somehow defeated death; changed our relationship with death forever.
If you think about it...think of how "other" God seems -- God is perfect; we aren't; God is all-knowing and all-powerful; we aren't; God exists beyond space and time; we live in a linear kind of existence. God is the ultimate Other to us; right? Yet God loves us and seeks relationship with us. How would God, the ultimate Other, achieve this? What if this God entered into our human existence -- became a human being, in a particular place, at a particular time in human history, and expeirenced all the experiences that the rest of us do...our weakness, our pain, our defeat at the hands of the "powers that be," even our death? The Incarnation erases that "otherness" between God and humanity.
I'd encourage you to think about Jesus' life and death in this way -- God's participating in our human experience, and in doing so breaching the gap between humankind and God.
2006-10-29 06:04:35 · answer #7 · answered by tawonda2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac but stopped him when He saw that Abraham was going to do it, God was testing Abraham's faith. God needed to send His son to earth to be born as a perfect human and give his life as a ransom sacrifice to buy back the perfect life that Adam had lost when he sinned by disobeying God by eating the forbidden fruit. God's perfect justice requires soul for soul and since no offspring of Adam was perfect because Adam passed on that sin to all his offspring, no human could pay the price,God sent his son to pay the price needed, Jesus was perfect because his Father was God and not of any man. Jesus was the true son of God as God created Jesus eons before any other creation, Jesus was God's first creation and the only creation He created totally by himself as after He created Jesus, Jesus became His Master Worker and all other creation was created through Jesus. Jesus before having his life transferred to Mary's womb to be born as human existed in heaven, there before coming to earth was known as Michael the Archangel.
2006-10-29 05:38:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God gave us free will, and by using it, Adam and Eve allowed sin to enter the world.
God sent His Son, Jesus, as a final blood sacrifice so we could be forgiven of our sins by accepting Him as our Lord and SAvior and taking up our cross and following Him.
God so loved the world (people) that He sent His Son, so we could find salvation, and avoid eternal damnation.
2006-10-29 05:53:26 · answer #9 · answered by Born Again Christian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God understands Justice.
Justice requires a punishment for sin. If there were no punishment for sin, then it wouldn't matter how we behaved; we would all get into Heaven. We could be as depraved as Hitler or Stalin, or as loving as Mother Theresa, it wouldn't matter. But, Justice requires that a price be paid for sin.
But God also understands the standard is perfection. None of us can meet that standard, so he offers a substitute. Justice must still be served, but we have the choice to accept the gift he gives through this substitute. Someone else takes the punishment for us, but justice is still served.
I've heard someone tell an analogy through a story, once: There was a king in a land which had a theft problem. In order to stop the problem, the king ordered that anyone caught stealing would be tied to a post and given fifteen lashes.
The kings guard came to him and told them they had caught a woman in the act of theft. The king ordered his kingdom to be assembled. When everyone was around he ordered the condemned woman to be brought before him for punishment.
When she was presented to him everyone gasped, for they realized the woman was the king's own mother. The king looked at her, then at the people, and ordered the punishment to be carried out. The king's mother was tied to the post, the guard selected his whip. Just before he struck the first blow the King said, "Hold."
He got off his throne, walked over to his mother, removed his royal robe, and covered his body with his own. He then ordered the punishment be carried out. He bore the blows on his own body.
The king carried out justice - because justice requires crime be punished. The king also took the punishment on himself, out of love for his mother.
In the same way, our King took our punishment for us, out of love for him. The ultimate sin is when we reject his Lordship, and insist we take our own punishment.
2006-10-29 05:53:34 · answer #10 · answered by The Non-Apologetic Apologist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋