isn't God who has the power of forgiviness, God already can forgive in the old testimony without no one getting killed or sacrificing himself. and bad people are not equal to good people.
and if people still have to repent and ask for forgiviness, then what was the point of jesus death?
2006-11-01 03:58:23 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If a person is married and in love with their spouse, do they not ask their spouse to "forgive" them when they wrong them? It's about relationship, for a relatioship to be a healthy one, there must be communication, empathy, and forgiveness when you have wronged them. This is ESPECIALLY true with God. I mean, HE'S GOD! Would you not be sorry for hurting Him after all He has done for you. I mean we live and breathe because He chooses to sustain our health another day, we are able to work, choose, and make our own decisions (right or wrong) because he chooses to have grace and allow us to. Why would someone not ask for forgiveness for sinning against such a gracious Father? As a father myself, it means much more to me when my daughter comes to me and asks for forgiveness for doing something wrong instead of not asking at all like she doesn't care about me. And if your kids refuse to ask forgiveness for disobeying you, you will eventually punish them. God does us the same way, we suffer the consequences for disobeying Him here on earth if we refuse to turn from our ways, we still go to Heaven because He is our Father and nothing can change that, but nevertheless, He has to punish us and does so before we die.
As far as the old testament goes, the high priest atoned for the sins of the people once a year with a sacrificial lamb because that was the covenant God made with them. The problem was that this only "put off" the sins and didn't cover them for good. It took a perfect, sinless, person to actually live that life for us, then to be sacrificed in our place to completely cover those sins once for all, and that is exactly what Jesus done. I hope this answers your question, Peace.
2006-11-01 04:14:46 · answer #1 · answered by dooder 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone may be giving away free ice cream, but you don't get any unless you show up and ask for it. Jesus died for everyone's sins, fine. But it doesn't mean that there's no longer such a thing as sin. It's not about Jesus now, it's about you.
Consider acts of worship and praise. Do you think God needs any of that? No! (And he's said as much in a few places.) So why do people do it? Because THEY need it. They need to acknowledge all that God does and means for them.
Repenting and asking forgiveness work the same way. WE need to acknowledge that we fail and injure others so we can learn and become better people. Otherwise there would be no point to "salvation". It would be like trying to play a game that starts on the "You've won!" square.
You aren't "earning" your salvation, you are just recognizing it and acting accordingly. Even an atheist with no divine cop overseeing him can appreciate the value of a moral code. You have to take the world (including other people) seriously, think about and treat it with respect.
"Salvation" is not diplomatic immunity. It is an attitude that guides you away from destructive behavior because you realize there is a way out. A "Christian" who sins with impunity and without acknowledgement is not indulging their "salvation", they're mocking it.
2006-11-01 05:00:19 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great question!
In the Old Testiment, people followed the laws laid out by Moses (given by God) to sacrifice animals at the altar as an atonement for sin.
In the New Testiment, God establishes a new covenant with us - He gave us Jesus to be sacrificed on the cross as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. We cannot be made clean by this sacrifice unless we repent of our sins and give our lives to Christ.
In the OT, the animal that was sacrificed had to be pure and without defect. In the same way, Christ was sinless. Sacrificing just any person would not have meant anything.
What was more important that Jesus' death was His resurrection. Had he just died, it would have shown that He could not conquer death and more importantly that He was not God. But, as Jesus said He would, he rose from death on the third day.
2006-11-01 04:14:48 · answer #3 · answered by Alex T 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the Old Testament, people had to make a sacrifice every time that they asked for forgiveness. You seemed to have missed that. Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice, so we don't have to kill animals on an altar anymore when we ask for forgiveness.
Why repent? That is kind of the point of asking for forgiveness. If you are sorry for what you did, then you will stop doing it. God wants you to ask for forgiveness so that you will be reminded to change your ways and stop your bad habits. God wants you to improve, not just stay the way you are for the rest of your life.
Why requires a sacrifice in the first place? if God simply forgave sin with no conditions, then that would imply that sin was no big deal, which would encourage more sin. God always required a sacrifice in both the Old and New Testaments in order to satisfy his sense of justice, and to demonstrate that God takes sin seriously.
2006-11-01 04:10:46 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus death was a sacrifice to cover our sin so that we could have eternal life with God when we die. We ask for forgiveness and repent to have a relationship with God now while we are on this earth.
In the old testament animals were sacrificed to cover peoples sin. Jesus was the final sacrificial Lamb. Accepting Him as savior gives one life after death, but we still sin. Because we still sin we must ask forgiveness to be right with God and continue our relationship with Him.
2006-11-01 04:07:41 · answer #5 · answered by shepherd 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because even though we are to ask forgiveness someone still has to pay for sin. Sin is the transgression of the law and seperates us from God which brings death. The penalty for sin is death. Jesus gave a way that we can still have eternal life if we accept it as His gift to us. He died for us so that we can live before God as perfect since we are covered by Jesus" blood. Otherwise being before God would kill us since we are so sinful.
2006-11-01 04:31:21 · answer #6 · answered by bethybug 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-21 02:20:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're understanding of Christian doctrine is slightly flawed. In the old testament, God was -not- forgiving, he was wrathful. He smote the sinful with floods, fire, and plague. The point of Jesus's sacrifice was to open up the possibility of unworthy sinners (i.e. everybody except saints) receiving God's forgiveness.
Basically, you ask Jesus for pity and he puts in a good word with his anger-management challenged dad.
2006-11-01 04:02:27 · answer #8 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the Old Testament, the Children of Israel had to bring animal sacrifices for their sins. The Bible teaches that "without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins" (Hebrews 9:22). Those sacrifices, however, could not actually take away those sins but only "cover" them for a time. Those sacrifices had to be repeated over and over again as people continued to sin. They were a "shadow" of the forgiveness yet to come.
"But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins" (Hebrews 10:3-4).
Jesus was the final and ultimate sacrifice once for all, for all sins, past, present, and future. " . . . we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all" (Hebrews 10:10). Through his blood all are offered forgiveness of sins, yet we still have to take the step to repent and accept that forgiveness by faith. "This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:22-24).
The point of Jesus' death was that he came to live a perfect, sinless life so that he could be the final blood sacrifice for our sins in our place. This sacrifice was necessary to bridge the incredible gap between sinful mankind and holy God. Through the shed blood of Jesus, we can live in the presence of God and have a relationship with him.
2006-11-01 04:16:10 · answer #9 · answered by happygirl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, ultimately God is the one who makes the final decision.
But havn't you heard, Jesus Christ is GOD.
God gave the authority to Him.
Jesus died on the cross so that there would no longer be a need to SACRAFICE the calves, or lambs or any other animal for that matter...
Jesus died to pay the price for sin, which is punisable by death.
It is still up to us to ACCEPT this gift, as it is still our choice to give God Control of our lives.
Yes He did die on the Cross for us, but we came into this world, and we have the choice, either accept or reject His Sacrafice.
To repent and ask forgigeness is to accept.
To deny that He ever was or is God is to Decline.
The choice is yours.
He gives us free will.
The DEBT is allready paid in full.
By Accepting Jesus Christ into your heart and freely confessing that you have made mistakes along the way ( that you are a sinner) you put the ball in His court, essientially Giving the power to CHRIST to restore you to the perfection that was created by GOD the Father, before being born into this corrupt world.
Hope that makes sense to you and helps.
DJH
2006-11-01 04:09:19 · answer #10 · answered by djyo 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋