If Jesus died on the cross to forgive the sins of those who accept him as their savior, doesn't that make the

Question

Christians responsible for his death? Why would you choose to take responsibility for someones death?

Answer 1

no it was a sacrifice.

Answer 2

Yes. It is logical in the sense that Spock reasoned in Star Trek IV, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or one."

Most Christians actually don't take responsibility for Jesus' death, they blame others... God the Father, the Romans, the Jews, or even Jesus himself.

Answer 3

I have a tremendous responsibility to honor His sacrifice. Each time I sin, the thought of Him being beaten and crucified for my forgiveness causes me deep remorse. There is nothing I could have done to change what had to happen, I can only show my gratitude by living my life with the example He gave.

Answer 4

An important question, as it strikes at the heart of what's wrong with this particular bit of human dogma around the meaning of the death of Jesus on a cross. In order to truly understand the philosophical and spiritual inconsistencies in the idea of Jesus dying for humankind's sins, you must take a more detailed look at the whole event; too complicated to cover fairly here.

Briefly: Jesus did not die to atone for the racial guilt of man. Or, to provide some sort of approach to a supposedly offended and unforgiving God. These ideas of atonement are erroneous.

The entire concept of atonement and sacrificial salvation is rooted and grounded in selfishness. Jesus taught that service to one’s fellows is the highest concept of the brotherhood of spirit believers. Salvation should be taken for granted by those who believe in the fatherhood of God. The believer’s chief concern should not be the selfish desire for personal salvation, but rather the unselfish urge to love and, therefore, serve one’s fellows, even as Jesus loved and served mankind.

When you can grasp the idea of God as a true and loving Father— the only concept which Jesus ever taught— you must, in all consistency, abandon the primitive notions about God as an offended monarch, a stern and all-powerful bearded guy-in-th-sky whose chief delight is to catch his ant-like subjects in wrongdoing, and to make sure they're punished for all eternity by the cruelest of abject torture, unless— some being almost equal to him volunteers to suffer for the rest of us— to die as a substitute and in their stead.

The whole idea of ransom, atonement, is incompatible with the concept of God as it was taught and exemplified by Jesus. The infinite love of God is never— ever— secondary to anything in the divine nature of God.

Even if God were the angry and legalistic king of a universe in which justice ruled supreme, he certainly would not be satisfied with the childish scheme of substituting an innocent sufferer for a guilty offender.

Answer 5

Christianity or any religion for that matter, is not defined by logic but by belief or faith.

Think of religion as the epitome of enigma.

If you apply common sense to it, you will defeat the basic premise, which is to 'believe' without doubt or question in something that you cannot define, prove or disprove and the rewards of obedience is to be granted entry to a place with no guarantees of its existence.

Therefore it is impossible for you (a logician) and believers (conformists) to ever communicate satisfactorily about religion, so why bother?

You expect a single factual answer, but what you will get is rationale and individual interpretation backed by nothing but a document that re-interates the illogical - the very thing you're are questioning.

Answer 6

Okay, He willed to do this, so that you and I can have a right to the Father. That we can live abundantly, with God. Believe it or not He died for you too, allmen. It's just up to you to take Him and accept Him for yourself.

Answer 7

Of course I'm responsible! I sinned, and He died for my sins! BTW, He died for all, even you! Even the soldier who drove the nails in His hands.

Answer 8

Absolutely Christians, along with all people, are responsible for Jesus death. That's great example of his perfect grace that he would die to save the very people who murdered him. Hallelujah!

Answer 9

Jesus was willing to go to the cross. That was His whole purpose for coming to earth. While it was technically humans that killed Him, He could have saved Himself. But He did not becasue He knew that if He took our sins upon himself then we could have a second chance.

Answer 10

Nobody's responsible. His very own father sent him here to die an excrutiatingly painful death on the cross. Remember... now you too can go to heaven!
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Answer 11

No my sins did crucify Christ, Now the question is why do we continue sinning. Is there anyghing wrong with taking responsibility