in answer to a fair few of the answers I receieved for my previous question, if GOD sent his only son to be killed for our sins why did he himself not pay for our sins? Why get someone else to do it? I understand that by letting his son die he is therefore suffering, but why get his son killed when he could've sorted it all out himself.
2006-11-18 07:32:41 · 23 answers · asked by dnbgrrly 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do you have children? It would be much harder to see my son suffer than suffer myself.
2006-11-18 07:34:51 · answer #1 · answered by believer26 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
You need to look at the whole of Christian doctrine on this subject, not just the isolated claim that 'God sent his son to be killed for our sins.' If you did this you would be able to come to an understanding of a few things: first, that God DID come down and sort things out himself. That's the point of the doctrine of the incarnation: God became a human being. Remember, Christians believe Jesus was divine; they also believe there is only one God. So the God who 'sent his son' is also the God who himself came to earth as a human being.
Also, though you didn't ask, I would like to mention that this notion of Jesus 'being killed for our sins' is itself difficult to understand, and many interpretations of it have been given over the centuries. It's not like God saying from out of the blue, 'Okay, let's just kill this guy Jesus, that'll solve everything.' Um, no. It has more to do with God's historical project of bringing the human race to a point of being able to love him -- mainly by becoming himself the supreme example of the true meaning of love by becoming human and suffering death on the cross.
Why do it this way? That's a question that requires a lot more time and effort even to begin to answer than I have now.
2006-11-18 07:45:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
God and Jesus are two separate personalities.
A perfect man Adam, lost everlasting life for us by disobeying God. Mankind was created to live forever.
It was only when Adam & Eve disobeyed that the death sentence was brought upon us all. We have inherited sin & death
- ROMANS 5:12
To give us the chance of having what our first parents lost (everlasting life) a perfect man gave his life as a corresponding ransom. That perfect man was Jesus. For God to have given his life it would not have been a corresponding ransom.
Also, if it was God who came down and gave his life, then who raised him? If he raised himself then he didn't really die, it doesn't make sense.
Jesus gave his life and suffered an agonizing death that we may all have the wonderful future of perfect health in a paradise on earth as God originally intended. PSALM 37:29
God allowed this to happen to his only begotten son, this took great love & sacrifice on His part. To see the one you love so much go through all that makes him worthy of our praise (which answers your other question)
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2005/4/22/article_02.htm
2006-11-18 10:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by New ♥ System ♥ Lady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam as a perfect had the capacity to father an Earth full of perfect, happy, righteous people. Only Jesus could have replaced what Adam lost. Jesus came to the Earth as a perfect man. He had the right to do the same as Adam, but he gave up that right by sacrificing himself so that he could 'adopt' children from the Earth in a spiritual way so that they could finally get what Adam lost, perfect, everlasting life on the Earth. God could not do this as his life has greater value than human life, the life that Adam lost. Jesus Christ in the Bible is described as the second Adam. (1 Corinthian 15: particularly vs 22, 45)
2006-11-18 08:12:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It goes back to when the devil tempting Adam and got him and Eve to give in to evil. Adam gave up his authority and dominion over the earth to the devil. After that we were no longer hooked to God spiritually because of the sin now in the earth. There are 3 parts to God right and there are 3 parts to man right like God is God, Jesus, Holy Spirit. And man is Spirit (God) Soul (Holy Spirit) and Body (Jesus). God had to send his son to die as price to buy us back to him for evil. In reality he sent hisself resembling his son. Because when he was on the earth he no longer was all knowing or everywhere at the same time because he was human now. So who was going to watch the universe, to prove that we can be just like him on earth. To show us we have the same power he walked in on earth.
2006-11-18 07:52:13 · answer #5 · answered by tribal811 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Firstly, the one who was to become Jesus, was God (John 1:1 & 14). Second, he volunteered for the job (John 10:17-18, 15:13). Thirdly, it was a gift -- from that sacrifice, Jesus will receive: glory, rulership over all the earth, preeminence in all things, etc. He considered it a small price to pay.
2006-11-18 08:04:22 · answer #6 · answered by BC 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Okay, now this is going to create some trinity confusion that is not easily resolved but...Because, the law demands that sinners be seperated from God the Father. God the Father really can't easily seperate Himself from Himself. So someone else (Christ) had to be the one to be seperated from God the Father.
If there was any other way, then having His only son tortured and killed, don't you think He would have chosen that instead?
2006-11-18 07:38:34 · answer #7 · answered by peacedevi 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
God is infinite and cannot maniffest in a finite universe as Himself. Jesus is both man and God. He did those things He saw His Father do and spoke the words His Father gave Him to speak. He had to take on mortal flesh in order to become the sacrifice. An infinite God could not do that His infinite form.
2006-11-18 08:39:08 · answer #8 · answered by waycyber 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
because everything is about balance luv. to have the good you must also have the bad to make you appreaciate the good more. there is always a little bit of black within white and vice versa, what would sex be without a little pain? What would happiness be without a little sadness? what would a partnership be without some kind of argument?
2006-11-18 08:37:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did die for us... He came down in person as half man through Mary... He is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three in one. He chose to suffer in this way, to let us see His miracles as well, but still, He was derided and He came knowing He would die... and this was the one way He could eradicate death for all of us, in this one gift, He afforded us forgiveness and took the sins of the world upon His shoulders and gave us eternal life.
Older Christian
2006-11-18 07:45:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
God is SPIRIT and He didn't have blood. A sacrifice calls for blood. so, God had to come, be born in human body with blood. People say Jesus was God and could not sin. I disagree, He was God and man. He chose not to sin because He loved, loved, loved God. If we love God we will choose to not sin. God can hear blood. It talks to Him. When Cain killed able God heard His blood calling out to Him. Able loved and obeyed God.
2006-11-18 07:43:25 · answer #11 · answered by MSNRY 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋