Shouldn't they be made heroes?
2006-12-27 05:53:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They did not kill Jesus because they thought they were doing the will of God. They did it of their own volition, making their actions damnable in nature. This was their need for forgiveness... but forgiveness from what? well...
Essentially, we are all, as a result of human error, guilty of the sin of Deicide (attempting to kill one's God) although those who condemned and kill Him were ignorant of the fact that they were, indeed, assaulting God (thus: "forgive them for they know not what they do").
2006-12-27 06:02:41 · answer #1 · answered by promethius9594 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus willingly laid down His life to make a perfect sacrifice in place of the blood of goats and sheep. In his human form He did not want to die, if you remember the Garden of Gethsemene and at the Crucifixtion in Matthew 27 and 28. Forgiveness for things done wrong is something a believer has to do, in order to be the forgiven for the plethora of things you may have done wrong to others. Matthew 18...Forgiveness releases your soul, it does not mean that you ever have to have anything to do with that person or persons again, you release them and let them go on their way. The other thing the offender has to do is repent or change their ways and not do it again..Jesus told Peter how many times do i forgive my brother? He told him ad infinitum.....
2006-12-27 14:07:57 · answer #2 · answered by Stormchaser 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God,in the old testament is a god of retribution,of fire and brimstone.God knew his son had to die,and the perpetrators will have that to answer for in the day of judgement,if jesus did not ask for their pardon.It was only after jesus ascended to heaven,to be on the right hand of the father,that god become more merciful as evident from the new testament on.
2006-12-27 14:16:15 · answer #3 · answered by siaosi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was not God's will that Jesus suffer and die on the cross. It was people who put Him there not God. The belief that Jesus came to earth to die for our sins is a belief that came about hundred of years ago when the Church leaders were trying to figure out why Christ suffered on the Cross. At the time the literal understanding of Adam and Eve was believed and used as the reason, "Original sin", for Christ's coming and death.
Another belief that was present at that time was that Christ came because God wanted to live and be among us. This belief was not popular among Church leaders who wrote the theology books and books used to prepare men for the priesthood.
If we say that Christ had to come to open heaven's gates because of our sins, then we are saying that we can control God.
The second theology teaches that God came, not because of our sins, but because of the love of God and the desire to live among us and to show us that no matter what others do to us, the ultimate gift to God is forgiveness for those who hurt us.
For more on this understanding, look up the works of Don Scotus, a Franciscan.
2006-12-27 14:03:37 · answer #4 · answered by Mary W 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The act of Jesus dying on the Cross was indeed God's Will, however, he is asking him to forgive us from our Sins, not for hanging him on the cross...
2006-12-27 14:21:07 · answer #5 · answered by TaylorProud 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Jesus hung on the cross and took our sins upon Himself, basically God killed God for us. Jesus is a part of the Trinity. Jesus said a lot of things to God the Father for our benefit, because God the Father knows it all.
Man can't kill God. Jesus said He had the power to lay down His life and the power to raise it up. He also said He could have called legions of angels to fight for Him. Remember one angel killed 185,000 men.
Christ willfully went to the Cross. It was His will to go, be crucified, buried and resurrected.
2006-12-27 14:06:15 · answer #6 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus said in Matthew 18: 7 "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!"
2006-12-27 13:58:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - it was not God's will - they had a choice - and they made the wrong one!@~
2006-12-27 13:56:49 · answer #8 · answered by nswblue 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Again you are trying to use logic with Christianity. For Shame.
As a Jew I think they should thank me instead of blaming me for his death.
2006-12-27 13:58:11 · answer #9 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
religion is a dumb thing :-)
2006-12-27 14:00:58 · answer #10 · answered by ? 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋