Why does Jesus Christ has to die on the cross to save us?

Answer 1

That is such a good question and if you ask a christian you get the same answer - because he loves us and died to forgive our sins. But that isn't an answer, just the church fobbing everyone off. Why did he need to die a slow and painful death when his father is supposedly omnipotent? This apparent omnipotence would mean the christian god could click his fingers and things would be right. So he made the world but was unable to accept people into heaven without his child being tortured and murdered? What about his believers that died before jesus was born? Did they go to hell just because jesus hadn't been born therefore hadn't died to save them? If jesus dying for us means our sins are forgiven then why do catholics go to confession? Finally, what sort of father allows his child to die like that? The questions are endless and the answers christians give are not good enough.
If you ever find the answer then please let me know! Good luck.

Answer 2

who says he saved anything, except a lot of Roman footwork - chasing him around. He was merely a criminal who was finally caught and rightfully executed. The fact that a religion was formed based on his life and death is merely that many people think that there's something wonderful and mystical about being strung up on a cross. If he'd been shot by firing squad, nobody would have taken any notice. The big mistake the Romans made was not burning the carcase to ensure no martyrs or cultist followers would jump on the bandwagon.

Answer 3

Revelations 21:8 "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolators, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death". Sin has no place with a Holy God. Jesus took our place on that cross and the sin of the world was laid upon Him. You can receive Him as your Savior and the Holy Spirit will teach you all things. You must have only the faith of a child, just because the Bible says so.

Answer 4

I think u answered your own question, Why does Jesus Christ has to die--------- on the cross to save us

Answer 5

Dying on the cross was one of the worst ways to die. If he just got beheaded, we wouldn't think of that as anything. but since he went through all that pain to suffer and die for us, his love has been revealed. Just the nail going through the hand would have peirced a major nerve that would have caused a pain like lightning shooting through the whole arm. People say that it's one of the worst pains known to man. Also, the whips that were used to scurge him had hooks on them designed to tear flesh and delicate nerves. The pain from that alone would have brought the vicitm to the point of convulsions. Lastly, as he was hanging on the cross, he died of suffocation and not loss of blood. Crucifixion was designed to make the vicitms lungs collapse under their own weight, so he was having a hard time breathing the whole time. Can you imagine being slowly suffocated to death over a period of six hours? There's no worse way to die! Yet he did that for us because he loved us, and wanted to save very one of us.

Answer 6

Good question, the answer's is sort of deep and a lot will have to be taken on faith. So bare with me.

For purpose of this question. Jesus is God on earth.
God is omnipresent. All places and all times, There's God.
The wages of sin is death.
No sin can enter heaven.
we are born in sin
Now, in order for us to enter heaven and spend eternity with our Heavenly Father, all sin had to be well, paid for or " waged ". In order to do that, something that was as big as the world from the beginning to the end had to die. Now, the most likely candidate is God for that one, but God can't die.
So, to solve this problem, enter Jesus. God's mortal form. A younger self, hence when speaking of the Divine, the term Father is used.
Now that we have a Mortal God that is capable of dieing, the wages of sin can be paid in full, and we have the option of entering heaven.
How ever, we have free will. And in such we have the option of accepting Jesus's payment for our sins or not.
I hope this answered your question.

Answer 7

Nothing can stop the almighty God, Jehovah, from fulfilling what he purposes. Thus, after man’s fall into sin, the ransom price was as good as paid from Jehovah’s viewpoint and he could have dealings with those who exercised faith in the fulfillment of his promises. This enabled sinful descendants of Adam, such as Enoch, Noah, and Abraham, to walk with and even be befriended by God without tarnishing his holiness.—Genesis 5:24; 6:9; James 2:23.

In proof of this, the Bible explains what the most wonderful accomplishment of Jesus’ ransom is, namely “to exhibit [God’s] own righteousness, because he was forgiving the sins that occurred in the past” and “in this present season.”—Romans 3:25, 26.

Answer 8

I never quite got that either when I was being raised in the church. It brings to mind the whole idea of blood sacrifice, which is a pagan idea. Just one more reason to take the whole christian story as an allegory and not literal truth.

Sorry all you die hard born-agains out there, but believing in a fantasy, even a deeply moving one, doesn't make it true.

Answer 9

The Bible says that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. It also says that the wages of sin is death and that the soul that sins shall die. God created man. God gave man rules. God told man the consequences for breaking the rules. Man broke the rules. What comes next? If I tell my child not to do something or I will give him time out and he does what I told him not to do, what comes next? According to my own rules, he should get a time out. God told man that the consequences of sin is death and man broke the rules. What comes next? Ok, death. But God gave man a break. He instituted the ceremonies of sacrifice to cover the people's sins so that they wouldn't have to die themselves. But the sacrificial system was a temporary fix that covered sins but could not fully erase them. So Jesus made Himself one of us, lived a perfect life, withstood temptation and then died in our place. Jesus is the only man who ever lived who could have done this because He is the only man who ever lived a sinless life. His innocent blood covered the sins of everyone who has ever lived. Now it is up to everyone to accept that offer and live. Otherwise the penalty will still stand. God is love and He is not willing that any should perish but have eternal life and yet if His offer is rejected, the penalty will be paid.

Answer 10

Becasue none of us are able to save ourselves. Jesus was the only sinless person, so death had no power over Him. He could, therefore, forgive others and clothe them in His righteousness to protect them from God's righteous judgement