What does it mean that Jesus saved us by dying for us?

Question

Christians believe that Jesus died for our sins and that by doing so he saved us. I'm not sure how he saved us? Please help. Thanks.

Answer 1

In the Old Testament, even beginning in Genesis, the principle is that without the shedding of blood (in a sacrificial offering) there is no atoning for sin. From the time of the Exodus, only the blood of an unblemished (representing no sin) lamb (symbol for Yeshua) was required to atone for sin. It was at the Passover that the blood of the lamb was applied on the door frame on top and on both sides. This represented essentially the Cross. It ought to be noted that G-d saw to it that the Passover occurred in the time of the Spring when we see displayed life coming out of death. G-d through the power of the Holy Spirit essentially became incarnate (human) and is represented in Yeshua Ha Maschiach (Jesus the anointed or Christ). In that He led a sinless life, He became the permanent, once for all time sacrifice for all of our sins. His blood payed the penalty for our sins (THE PENALTY BEING ETERNAL SPIRITUAL DEATH).

Answer 2

Actually that doctrine did not exist in Christianity until Paul began preaching it. Paul was trying to reconcile his Jewish faith with his understanding of Jesus. Paul also studied Greek pagan philosophy and he was well acquainted with the other "dying saviors" in other religions, such as Mithraism, which was also popular at the time.

Paul hit upon the idea that Jesus was a "sacrifice," like the animals in the old testament who were sacrificed to earn God's forgiveness. What Paul neglected to mention is that in the Old Testament, human sacrifice is forbidden by God. And if Jesus was human, or even only partly human (as Christians insist), then he was a human sacrifice.

There were many groups of early Christians, called Gnostics, who did not believe in this. However, the Christians who were of the Pauline school of thought eventually gained political power by allying themselves with the Emperor Constantine. They created the Bible out of all the holy books of the region, and made sure to exclude any other view of Jesus' death except for the one that proposed that Jesus was a blood sacrifice for our sins.

Then they proceeded to conduct holy war against the Gnostics, killing and exiling them. This is all historical fact.

That's how we got the doctrine that Jesus died for our sins. Not from god, but from a group of contentious men. It was, in essence, just like the Sunnis and Shiites fighting each other in Islam over points of idiotic doctrine.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

God sent his son, Jesus Christ to this world to show us how to live and to pay the price for our sins. Jesus suffered not because he had sinned but becuase mankind had sinned. He died and went to hell and suffered for us.

Answer 5

I think that that was the way that God wanted things to happen in order for us to be saved, just meaning that God chose death as a way to save us. Because God is God and in control of everything, I believe God has the capacity to do whatever, and the laws we know about he set, and He chose them in that way. What I mean by this is, God could've saved us without dying for our sins, unless there is some law in God's universe that says that death pays for guilty sins. The more I write about this, the more I kind of see it as God wanted to show His love for His children and by laying down his life and going through the process of dying, He showed His love. In dying, Jesus who is God showed His love for us.

How do you show your selfless love for someone? By giving up something you treasure in order for that person to be happy. In experiencing death, God showed His love for us.

I think in having Jesus die, it was a way to show God's love.

To try to be clearer, I believe that since God is God, he didn't have to die in order for us to be saved (unless there is some law in God's universe that says death pays for sins), but He chose the act of dying in order for us to be saved. And in dying God showed His love.

I think God's act of experiencing death is an expression of love, and to show how much He loves us. I think God could've chosen another way to save us, maybe by washing us with mustard (just to show that it was just the way God chose to save us from sin)

I think in God's universe, God maybe set down the law that something needs to be given up in order for us to have life. God didn't have to do that, but He chose it to be that way.

I think you don't need to understand it like, how could this be, and see it for what it is sometimes. It's kind of like, why did this happen...?? Just because that's just the way it is. I think you can just accept some things that seem unexplainable, or seeing them as God's way of choosing things to happen.

Answer 6

It's nothing but nonsense... Don't bother trying to give it a logical meaning.

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Answer 7

From death if we become born again then we can live again..