Why did God wait so long before sending his "Son" to set us all straight?

Question

The Romans and Greeks seemed pretty confused ...

also, why send someone else, why not just break through the clouds and tell it like it is. Im sure that if in an instant it was 10 degrees all across the world and all you cold see was a strange being talking to you ...it would make believer out of all humans.

Answer 1

Jesus had to be born of a women it is the only legal way into this world

(John 10:1) Truly, truly, I say to you, He who does not enter into the sheepfold by the door, but going up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber.

(John 10:2) But he who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

I would have to do some studying, but the blood line of Jesus had to be established and everything else in Gods plan had to line up.

Answer 2

There's a lot of possible answers to that question depending on your religion and faith.

Some would argue that the Genesis story explains the answer. Originally Adam & Eve were in Paradise but screwed up and had to pay the price. The price being original sin and waiting for the Messiah (Jesus to Christians and TBA to Jews).

Others might say that for whatever reason Satan controls the Earth for the time being (until the Messiah returns). They point to Jesus' temptations in the desert where Satan offered to Jesus all the cities of the world if Jesus agreed to worship Satan. Well, how could Satan offer something he didnt already posess?

Others would point out that your question is essentially the same that the Romans argued while Jesus was being crucified. I forget the actual text but Jesus was taunted, "If you are the Son of God, then come down from that cross." Jesus did not believing that he had a specific purpose that necessitated his crucifixion. (Jesus himself had prayed to God asking if it were really necessary that he endure the crucifixion.) It goes back to the whole point of Jesus's time on Earth. He didnt walk around raising the dead at will and curing blindness left and right etc. According to Christianity, he wanted people to believe in him not merely by performing miracles but by his teachings and other actions.

So the long and the short of it is that it comes down to faith. A religious person has faith that things happen for a reason, according to God's plan, etc.

Lastly, some people are ready and willing to denigrate religion simply because they dont believe it. Remember that tolerance is a two way street.

It might help to read simply what the Church has to formally say about the matter. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

412 But why did God not prevent the first man from sinning? St. Leo the Great responds, "Christ's inexpressible grace gave us blessings better than those the demon's envy had taken away."307 And St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, "There is nothing to prevent human nature's being raised up to something greater, even after sin; God permits evil in order to draw forth some greater good. Thus St. Paul says, 'Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more'; and the Exsultet sings, 'O happy fault,. . . which gained for us so great a Redeemer!'"

Answer 3

No man will ever be able to tell you why.

The timing in my opinion was perfect. It was at a time where the world was on the way to being completely lost, but was not wuite there yet.

People were continually becoming discouraged from the original Judeaism. People began to stray from the original teachings of God, so he sent his son to fulfill the teachings and show how they should be applied to life.

The bible, mind you, is still applied to today's standards just as much as it did 1000 or even 2000 years ago.
If it survived thus long, it must have some truth to it.

Answer 4

Well to begin with , He had other purposes in coming to this earth other than "setting us straight." The prophets from the beginning of mankind testified of His coming and taught the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ during all eras before His birth. Among some of the other reasons He came to earth are the atonement of the sins of all mankind who accepts Him and His teachings, and to conquer death by being the first to be resurrected and thereby giving all of us this same promise of being resurrected. To answer your question about breaking through the clouds and telling it like it is. There are scriptural documentations of angels appearing to mankind and people behaving the same way as before. Seeing is not believing but rather believing is seeing.

Answer 5

Actually, he has sent many messengers. There has always been *someone* (and will continue to be) on the planet to deliver the message that Jesus came to deliver.

The reason he doesn't just "break through the clouds" is because the physical plane is far too coarse and the vibration far too slow for God to descend this far. Instead he sends messengers which are born into the world and can withstand the coarsness and rate of vibration.

Answer 6

To Answer why so long: He had to be sent at the right time.
To Answer why God just didnt come down: My church believes that we were all sent to earth to learn, grow and be tested (kind of showing our allegiance to God) and that our goal was to make it back to him in heaven. We can only make it back to heaven if we dont sin, and since everyone sins we needed a way to erase our sins. God sent his son Jesus Christ to atone and die for our sins so that we could return to heaven, all we have to do is repent and try our best to live righteously. Now if God himself came down, true we might all believe (although i still think some might not) but it would take away the purpose of earth, and we wouldn't learn anything from this wonderful "adventure"!

Answer 7

If Jesus' sacrifice was necessary to "save" humanity, why didn't he die on the cross as soon as Adam and Eve sinned, thereby sparing billions of people all the pain, misery, war, and starvation of the past 6000+ years? Why did God think all that suffering necessary? He could create the whole vast cosmos in 6 days, but he couldn't come up with a better, simpler, more compassionate way to save everyone from sin? In fact, if he wanted all humans to be perfect and go to heaven, why didn't he just create perfect humans already in heaven to begin with, so that nobody--not even Adam and Eve--had to sin or suffer? BibleGod is not a very good long-term planner.

Answer 8

He didn't He has been sending sons since time immoral. Krishna says in the Gita "When ever their is a decline in religious principals and the Truth appears to be lost, I appear again and again or send My representative to reestablish the truth." The truth is never really lost it is only the misinterpretations of foolish men. Go to thegospelofthenazirenes.c for the original New Testament before King Constantine misconstrued everything.

Answer 9

Jesus wasn't the only Divine Incarnation God sent. Prior to Him, we had Krishna, Rama, etc.

As for those who were confused, well when man is seeped in so much ignorance and materialism, he does not recognize the Truth when he sees it.

Jesus said that those who have eyes, see and ears hear. Which meant that when we keep our eyes and heart open to God, we will recognize Divinity when we see, hear or feel it.

Answer 10

Amazing how many people know better than God what and how He should do things. With all that wisdom around this world ought to be the perfect place.