if you're god, and you know that your death really isn't death at all, but you'll just come back and float back off to heaven...
...what was ever sacrificed? nothing. a god cannot be killed, right? he knew he would be coming back (according to the bible, he told people he would be coming back), so he knew he was divine. There was no sacrifice because nothing was ever sacrificed, nothing was lost, nothing could have been lost!
Does anyone ever take the time to notice the holes in this story, and the utter ridiculous nature of the whole thing???
2006-12-31 11:51:47 · 21 answers · asked by Jeebus is my Rectum 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow. The mindlessness here. Aye yi yi.
Can any of you READ? How does one kill a god? You say he had to take earthly form to feel pain because, as an all-knowing god, he didn't know that or understand it??
THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE OR LOSS, but there was??
Come on -- do you really have to talk in circles to convice yourself of this stuff???
WOW!! Now, answer the question!! THINK!
2006-12-31 12:10:12 · update #1
I identified this problem with the Jesus myth when I was 9 years old attending an evangelical fundamentalist Sunday School.
I got kicked out.
2006-12-31 11:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
OK I get it from a lot of your questions you don't approve of the Christian religion. But put that aside for a second. If you went out with a crowd of people say 50 people. Let's say one of them murdered a woman in an alley when the group was going by. Then another stole someones purse. Another raped a girl in the bathroom. And another punched a 5 year old kid getting ice cream. You heard some of these things had happened after the fact, and others you saw. You told the people...look this is not cool at all. This is really wrong. I am hurt knowing the people I am with have done these things... and they said "ok. Then let's execute you if you don't want to be like us. If you want us to be better than we are. Let's give you a cruel and painful execution." You will really suffer beyond any suffering you have ever done or more than anyone should. But you are Going to heaven afterward. Would you not feel pleased you were going to heaven , but be able to see the injustice in being the one who had to pay the price for their actions? Would you not feel you were making a sacrifice. You are going to suffer, you loved ones are going to watch you suffer and the catch is when this is over maybe just maybe, someone will have learned from it. Why do you think Jesus went to Gethsemmene? He didn't want to suffer but he was willing ....to create a chance for others,.... the ones he walked among who were guilty.There was a sacrifice, it depends on if you are willing to see it.
2006-12-31 12:18:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
YES, Jesus did rise from the dead- because if he did not then we would not be serving a living God. However He died first- the sacrifice as the pain and the shedding of blood to redeem us. The pain He must have endured on the cross- can you imagine? Nails in his hands and feet, sword in his side, and people mocking Him the whole time- and the beating He endured before His crucifixion. Yes, Jesus was and always will be devine, but he humbled Himself and became obedient even the death of a cross. Death was Death- resurrection happened so that we could have eternal life- He was sacrificed- no question in my mind!!
2006-12-31 12:35:26 · answer #3 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God came as a human being and suffered all the same things you do, cold, hunger, all the discomforts of living in a physical body. Life is a precious thing, especially to God. He put aside all His glory and riches in Heaven to come here so that you could understand His love for you. He was betrayed by his friends, and suffered all the pains of being whipped, carrying a heavy cross, hanging there for hours, and eventually dying of suffocation. While all this was happening in the Heavenlies His Father turned His face from Him because at that point He was carrying all the sins of the world. You may call me ridiculous but I call you blind. You are missing the Savior.
2006-12-31 12:47:06 · answer #4 · answered by angel 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ever been whipped by a ball with rusty spikes until you nearly passed out and then had a cloth wrapped around your open-wound back as a process of ridicule? Have the cloth adhere to your back due to natural process of clotting, and then have it ripped suddenly from the wound, causing additional bleeding? Didn't think so.
Oh, and then there is that part about the rough wood splinters scraping into your back as you attempt to pull yourself up just to breath while hanging on the cross, the crown of thorns piercing into your head, the nails in your wrists, the spear pierced in your side, the incredible heat and salt sweat dripping over open wounds as you carried the cross across the city, being offered bitter vinegar to quench your thirst as another form of ridicule...
and you have the audacity to say that "nothing was sacrificed?!"
2006-12-31 12:05:02 · answer #5 · answered by abby j 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was also a man. As a man, He was also put to death.
Do you understand what He went through? Not only did He go through the physical suffering of torture and crucifixion, but worse than that, he underwent the spiritual pain of the Father turning His back on the Son when Jesus took the sins of mankind upon Himself.
Who are you to say there was no sacrifice?
2006-12-31 12:09:15 · answer #6 · answered by paulsamuel33 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ever watch Mortal Combat? Remember when the god-son suddenly realizes he can bleed and get hurt? Shock!! Wasn't a shock for Jesus, but then He also didn't have to normally consider death. If you were told today that you could save someone but in 1 year you will have to give up what you take for granted (say starve to death in an isolated cell - no trial, no reason; or suddenly lack of ability for your body to digest food, anything that wouldn't normally consider) -- would you sacrifice?
2006-12-31 11:59:02 · answer #7 · answered by MarkW 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the law made by God to the Jewish people it was required that they sacrifice to atone for their sins. They would select the animals that were without blemish and as pure as could be.
Jesus chose to be the Living Sacrifice for the sins of all mankind. He is known as the Lamb of God. His life taken at the cross was the sacrifice because He was pure from sin and had no blemish.
In doing so He , a sinless human payed the dept required by the law God had made thus relinquishing anyone who believes that this is true from the consequences of sin. When coming to earth as human He forfeit His powers of God and relied on the Holy Spirit to show us how to live. God became man, to reach us on our level, not His.
2006-12-31 12:08:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Believing With Faith is a No-Joke issue... The instances you gave "pardon" Lacks knowledgeable decisions in the part of the Commander: for letting his soldier run to be dead! And also to the soldier "himself" in letting to get himself killed? LiFe needs Knowledge in order to Believed into anything... Why is Atheist like you became an Anti-Christ? Why are you so bothered by the Christian Faith? Searched for it and you shall find... the Value of Life...
2016-05-23 01:28:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well smarts, Jesus was a man but could do supernatural things there is only 1 god,that was his son. Jesus didnt have to go on a cross, he didnt have to be brutally killed for the future generations to come for ungrateful people like you who dont really know the facts and question that. NO OFFENSE
2006-12-31 12:01:10 · answer #10 · answered by El 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋