If he really is all-powerful, couldn't he have just said, "you're forgiven" and poof! we're forgiven? It worked with creating the Earth, the ocean, the sun ,the moon, the stars...... So why'd he kill his kid, to lay a guilt-trip on us?
2006-12-05 17:07:46 · 13 answers · asked by enslavementality 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-12-05 17:37:25 · update #1
Strange, isn't it? Even if God DID need an earthly intermediary who could facilitate the salvation of mankind (and why would he NEED that...), why did that person have to DIE?
God makes the rules, yes? And God is all powerful, yes? Well... why didn't he command Jesus to pick a daisy to save the world? Why couldn't God have said "My son, dost thou notice this fair daisy? By plucking said flower, you shall become the divine savior of the human race"
But no.... it had to involve blood sacrifice, didn't it? Like so many other messiahs that came before him, Jesus had to suffer and bleed.
2006-12-05 17:10:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
To give us a test of belief - a way for us to relate to him. He did not create us with the automatic "in" to Heaven. He created us with free will in order that we would love Him on our own. Not through a means of force (i.e. "poof" - you love me).
If you knew you had free access to Heaven, what would stop you from killing who you wanted, stealing what you wanted, etc?
Also, He did not kill his kid, he allowed man to do it with their free will and poor choice. We don't all have to be that way.
Then, as a side note, I don't believe that "poof" He created the Earth, "poof" He created the ocean, etc. I believe He created the big bang by setting up the laws of the universe. Everything created from this one push. Not multiple pushes as you elude to. This creates a far more perfect God than one that has to constantly "fix" what He created. The Bible just states that He did create it, but not how.
2006-12-05 17:29:31 · answer #2 · answered by narrfool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God gave rules approximately sacrificing a sacrifice equivalent to the sin. He would not substitute his rules. while Adam sinned, he became into suitable and his sin led to the dying of all people. Who could have the means to modern a sacrifice equivalent to Adam and his sin considering he became into suitable? Jesus volunteered to grant his existence because of the fact the sacrifice for Adam's sin. He enjoyed people very a lot. He knew that what Adam and Eve did became into no longer the fault of their offspring. yet they lost their eternal existence because of the fact of what those 2 did. Jesus took on a human physique. He became into born suitable. No different human must be born suitable. Jesus gave his suitable human physique because of the fact the sacrifice for Adam's sin. This opened the way for all people to have the means to stay continually interior the paradise earth as quickly as lower back. no longer in heaven. God created mankind to stay on earth. no longer in heaven. God will quickly do away with all evil on earth and restoration it to the paradise he meant for it to be interior the 1st place. basically righteous would be allowed to stay on the paradise earth. that incorporates people who're resurrected. Then God will better than make it as much as people that have suffered in this worldwide.
2016-10-04 22:51:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he is a God of justice; So our sin cannot go unpunished. Just like in the Old Testament, an animal had to be sacraficed for sins to be forgiven. In the New Testament, Jesus was the lamb of God that was sacraficed.
2006-12-05 17:15:17 · answer #4 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
kait, I read the bible, animals were sacrificed to feed the religious leaders and their family.
The question is why does god need a payment, to himself for the "sins" ?
Basically jesus suffered on the cross, because god wanted him to.
Unless the payment goes to the devil, lol
2006-12-05 17:19:18 · answer #5 · answered by lilith 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is alive - His death was nothing permanent, only a physical death.
As to the 'why not just forgive all'. Well, if you were a judge, would you forgive the one who says he is sorry, or the one who is insistant on doing the wrong thing again?
The bottom line is that you have a choice to do what is right or what is wrong - its as easy as that.
2006-12-05 17:12:27 · answer #6 · answered by rusty.turkey2 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He was serious when he said "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin" He paid the penalty of sin for us. Now you can choose to accept this gift of pardon or not.
2006-12-05 17:17:25 · answer #7 · answered by Gary M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't apply logic to Christian religion. It just doesn't work.
An exercise in futility. Religion is irrational by design. Hence, why it's called "faith". The more deluded a person is, the stronger their "faith" is.
2006-12-05 17:14:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
here's an irony Jewish don't believe in original sin so if Jesus was a Jew and the concept of original sin doesn't exist in the Jewish faith what was he saving us from , so from that perspective the whole concept makes no sense
Hey enslaved hows it going?
2006-12-05 17:11:35 · answer #9 · answered by harro_06 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If I thought you really wanted an answer I would explain this.....but I have a feeling your not interested.
Just know there are answers and reasons when you really want to know
2006-12-05 17:12:21 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋