2006-12-20 03:15:56 · 16 answers · asked by EJV 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Consider this:
He never died on the cross.
Like whoa.
2006-12-20 03:18:05 · answer #1 · answered by Markie 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Jesus (completely sinless) bore the price for all our sins on the cross, by shedding His blood and giving His life for all humanity, not just the ones who lived at that time. Before Christ, people were required to offer a blood sacrifice from a perfect animal. Jesus paid that price for all of us once an for all when He died for us on the cross and was resurrected. All we have to do to receive that gift is believe it, accept Jesus as our Saviour and repent of our sins. Through His grace we are saved from eternal damnation. God bless you!!
2006-12-20 03:33:42 · answer #2 · answered by country nana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, I view the crucifixion as the ultimate expression of something that God does eternally, namely, taking all the sin, guilt, shame and suffering of the world into him/herself. It's very much what we all do in a small way in every human relationship - to love others, we take a risk, and sometimes end up hurt. In the same way, God took a risk to love the world, and willingly bore the pain.
2006-12-20 03:20:30 · answer #3 · answered by Banana Ray David 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Self-sacrifice is the greatest show of love. "No greater love than to give your own life in exchange for someone else" He exchanged ours from eternity in "hell" BECAUSE he actually loved us! It's hard to believe that a human can love someone he doesn't know, but you have to have the faith that he was part of the Holy Trinity. So to know he would die, and to go through the HORRIBLE torture and ULTIMATE pain for the length of time that he did...it's unfathomable.
WOULD YOU DO IT?
Something else to think about:
Apparently we were such horrible creatures back then and had no morals or integrity, so we needed some kind of role model to show us how to be real human beings. So they set this guy up who did everything right and good and helped others unselfishly, and who sacrificed himself so that we may see that love and not have his death be in vain and continue to model that behavior.
To forever strive to be good people.
2006-12-20 03:33:05 · answer #4 · answered by mafarrar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please take a look at John 17:6. "I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world." And verse 9, "I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours."
Now tell me, how could all of humanity be saved if Jesus' prayer directly contradicts this idea? The only way an Arminian could say that Jesus' death (and resurrection, by the way), could cover everyone, everywhere, throughout time, is by adding parentheses and twisting words around to fit Jesus' prayer to their theology. "... men whom You have given Me out of the world" never implies "if they agree to it and choose and accept" -- otherwise I think Jesus would have mentioned this or given it a vastly different phrasing.
So the answer to your question is that all of humanity was NOT saved by Jesus' death on the cross. I'm not saying that He did not have the capability to save the entire world, but these verses say irrefutable that He died for the Elect only.
2006-12-20 03:58:56 · answer #5 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that Jesus died for the past, present and future sinners.
If you beleive in god and beleive that jesus saved you when he died in the cross then all your sins (the ones you have commited, and the ones you don't even know you will commit) will be forgiven and you will be saved from eternal death and have an eternal life next to Jesus!
2006-12-20 03:19:52 · answer #6 · answered by oposites2 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humanity was not 'saved' ... just some more propaganda. Ascension = FREEDOM!
Jesus left the example of what is necessary for each of us to do.... mastery of the Laws of Life/Light/Physics.
2006-12-20 03:23:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It included post generations. Jesus was almost overwhelmed in the garden of Gethsemane when it was revealed to him the enormity of sin that he would have to endure which is why he sweated blood.
2006-12-20 03:20:53 · answer #8 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before Christ, sin required Blood Atonement to be forgiven. Christ was the perfect sacrifice for all men, so individual blood sacrifice for forgivness was no longer needed.
2006-12-20 03:18:18 · answer #9 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until Jesus died every soul would have gone to hell.When Jesus Christ died he went to the gates of hell and opened them to all good souls.The souls went to heaven,that has never been open sin Adam and Eve were thrown out.That's how Jesus saved humanity.
2006-12-20 03:18:26 · answer #10 · answered by Nevermind 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was on the cross and God poured his wrath out on him. the wrath that many would deserve. His gift is for all time.
We have all lied stolen and lusted , blasphemed and so we are all guilty of hell according to the bible.
so we repent and trust to take God's merciful gift.
Vincent
2006-12-20 03:20:34 · answer #11 · answered by Vinny Sacco 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋