Yes, I know he dies on the cross, and saved us of our sins, but even so, where is the sacrifice? Didn't he just come back to life? Didn't he just go back up to heaven afterwords to be god? Even if the crucifixation was very painful, people go through horrible physical pain everyday! I'm not saying Jesus didn't help everyone, even if that's true, where is the SACRIFICE?
2006-12-04 17:48:42 · 14 answers · asked by barswhereami 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not saying that a brutal death isn't a sacrifice. All I'm saying is that EVERY SINGLE PERSON is eventually going to experience death, some not as bad as Jesus' death, some worse. By dying on the cross, Jesus only went through what everyone else goes through. But in the end, Jesus gets to rise again and go control the universe. Us humans, on the other hand, die and MAYBE get to go to heaven. And the idiot who said "put your money where your mouth is" is retarded. I don't have to die on a cross to ask questions about Jesus dying on the cross, asshole.
2006-12-05 05:21:57 · update #1
Because "Jesus had a bad weekend for your sins" didn't test well with the marketing department.
It's true, an ETERNAL god, experiencing death for 3 days --- when humans give their only lives to save strangers. I fail to get it too.
2006-12-04 17:52:25 · answer #1 · answered by Black Parade Billie 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, first, Jesus knew for days or years that He would be killed. Then He was killed for telling the truth. He claimed no power, but was arrested anyway. He was deserted by His friends. People lied about Him. He was beaten. Forced to carry a cross until exhaustion. Stripped naked and placed on a cross until He expired, though He could have saved Himself and He did nothing wrong. Since He was perfect, the sacrifice was particularly big. Oh, and the "rose from the dead" thing, that is Him destroying the sting of death for sin.
2006-12-05 01:52:24 · answer #2 · answered by BigPappa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sacrifice was that He did not have to do this. Jesus sacrificed Himself in every way for the love He has for us. He was persecuted against, He was whipped almost to death, He was nailed to a cross,He died, He spent 3 days in the bowels of the earth so we would not have to even taste death or hell. He resurrected so we could have eternal life with Him. If Jesus had not sacrificed Himself for us, we would all just die spiritually and physically. One must remember, the wages of sin is death.
2006-12-05 01:53:35 · answer #3 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sacrifice was in living His whole life denying Himself. He had all the human needs and desires you and I have and for our sake He denied all of that, all the way up to a horrible death that He didn't deserve. He also had all the power of God in Him and to not use that against His enemies when they attacked and accused Him undeservingly was a sacrifice. Not even once did He do His own will as a man. Try doing that for only a day and you'll find it's pretty darn hard to do. Keep on doing it for 33+ years and tell me again it wasn't a sacrifice.
2006-12-05 02:08:04 · answer #4 · answered by adeleb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus had a pre-human existence with God and was beside him as a Master Worker (Proverbs). He is a perfect human creature, the firstborn of all creation. He allowed himself to become the form of man, even knowing all the limitations mankind has in comparison with heavenly creatures. The cost of Adam's sin had to be paid with an equal price. There were no perfect humans on earth, so Jesus came to earth and kept integrity, proving that Adam could have done so had he chosen this. When he entered heaven again, he presented God with the value of this sacrifice. It is the greatest gift ever given. If you can, try to find a copy of the book "What Does the Bible Really Teach"-it gives references to scriptures and explains it from the Bible itself. I hope you find satisfying answers to your questions.
2006-12-05 01:53:44 · answer #5 · answered by curiositycat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Besides going through what he did on the cross and the hours before, just the fact that he left a place where he was God, worshipped by millions of angels, had all the comforts of heaven and come into a spiritually dark world that neither knew him nor loved him, in fact hated him, and he came as a baby that was fully reliant on his mother for everything, well that by itself was a huge sacrifice.
He came to pay a debt he didn't owe, because we owed a debt we couldn't pay.
2006-12-05 01:55:47 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RANSOM
Definition:A price paid to buy back or to bring release from some obligation or undesirable circumstance. The most significant ransom price is that of the shed blood of Jesus Christ. By paying over the value of that ransom in heaven, Jesus opened the way for Adam's offspring which are (mankind) to be delivered from the sin and death that we all inherit because of the sin of our forefather Adam.
(John 19:1, 16-18, 30;)Jesus experienced harsh whipping, cruel impalement, and an agonizing death on a torture stake. Jesus willingly sacrificed his perfect life for imperfect mankind. On the 14th day of the Jewish Month Nisan in 33 C.E. God allowed his perfect and sinless son to be executed. Jesus thus sacrificed his perfect human life"once for all time". (Hebrews 10:10) On the third day after Jesus died, Jehovah God raised him back to spirit life in heaven, Jesus presented to God the value of his perfect human life sacrificed as a ransom in exchange for Adam's offspring.(Hebrew 9:24) Jehovah God accepted the value of Jesus's sacrifice as the ransom needed to deliver mankind from slavery to sin and death. -Romans 3:23,24.
2006-12-05 02:29:02 · answer #7 · answered by prettymama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where is the sacrifice?!!
He left His heavenly home, to walk among mere mortals.
He suffered a HORRIBLE death..to have people, such as yourself ask.."where is the sacrifice?"
If it were me, I'd NEVER come to die, knowing how horrible it was going to be, even if I know I would be raised up from the dead...would you?!
God gave everything that He had..(Jesus)
Jesus gave His life for you...even knowing that you would say the things that you say about Him.
2006-12-05 01:53:33 · answer #8 · answered by Judah's voice 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it was the wrongness of it. The perfect man free from corruption forced to die a criminals death.
That's just wrong.
He was total Love, He recieved hate for his reward.
He was holy, His father forsook him and turned his back on him.
He sowed righteousness and reaped perdition.
That's just wrong.
Have you ever been punished for something you didnt do?
I have.
Have you ever been delivered from a punishment you deserve?
I have
If I was freewheeling around the timeless galaxies shooting off trails of sparkling life dust in my wake it would
be quite a sacrifice to don a physical body, strap my self to time, sweat, bleed and die for some dirt people 'hu(mous)mans'
I bet he did it for his Dad
what a sacrifice
2006-12-05 02:15:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus pubh tried to set aright Jews
2006-12-05 02:02:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋