only for christians who studied theology please..?

Question

i am sure that Jesus' blood it the biggest power that we can use. I have used it myself and i made a daemon run away. I've heard stories like this lot of times. Althought I cannot understand something. Please don't tell me that it exists as I already know it. But please tell me how did Jesus take our sins on the cross and why he had to die in such a cruel way. I also find the same kind of question on the old testament with the animals. Using them for sucrfice people managed to be free from sins. So how could such a thing happend? I know it was God's order. I know it happends I just cannot understand the way. Please explain me with logic mean and through bible.

Answer 1

scripturecatholic.com lesson one(six courses) is completely free and will help you out alot with your question,do it at your own pace. the lesson isn't primarily catholic,the other ones are but the first one and even the other ones can benefit all christinas.

as for the animal sacrafices, this was a punishment from god, god doesn't need sacrafices but he realized that without the numerous animal sacrafices his choosen people would never refuse to stay away from sin and idol worship etc. how many times did god prove himself to the people and yet at the drop of a hat the people strayed and delved into sin etc...........in the old testament the pattern goes

adam,eve-sin-repent and god continues his covenant plan of salvation

noah,family-sin repent god forgives and furthers the covenant through moses,then abraham, then david and then jesus and the church. the multiple sacrafices served as reminder and of the consequence of sin. the old testament foreshadows the new.

the new testament is hidden in the old and the old testament is revealed in the new testament. just focus on the main story of gods covenant with man kind and you will understand the sacrafices of old contrasted to the ultimate and perfect sacrafice through his only begotten son jesus.

Answer 2

I didn't major in theology, but I took a lot of religion classes.

Okay here's the set up: God says He is just, He also says He is merciful, and He says if He lies, He would cease to be God. Do you see the difficulty with these 3 statements. If He were just, everyone would get the punishment they deserved with no escape. If he were merciful, everyone would get off without punishment. So how can He be both, and not a liar?

This is where a mediator steps in. Jesus was able to take the punishment for us because he was without sin...AND (this is where His blood comes in) some special traits inherited by His parents. Because Mary, a mortal, was His mother, He got the ability to feel pain and die. Because God, an immortal, was His father, He got the ability to choose not to feel pain, or choose not to die.

All of these things combined to make Jesus able to take punishment for us, and set a path (repentance etc) where mercy can apply instead of just justice.

hope that helps

Answer 3

It's the idea of giving up something precious (an animal, a burnt offering, money, Jesus himself) to gain both separation from the trap of fleshly desires and favor because you denied yourself something pleasurable and gave it to God instead.

Jesus would have liked to stay alive, I'm sure, but he died in order to prove his mastery over his desire to stay safe and alive and also to act as a sacrifice for the sins of others. A gift like salvation requires a massive sacrifice. The idea of a "scapegoat" was common in Jewish culture, that an animal could have the sins of a community put on it and then it would take them away. The people would be separated from their sins and they would feel forgiveness, in a way, as the animal went to the desert.

Jesus was a symbolic scapegoat, someone who didn't deserve to be crucified, but made the choice in order to make an example of himself and show that forgiveness is possible if you want it. The fact that he didn't have to die but did anyway shows that we don't have to ask for forgiveness or pay for it with our own lives--he made the choice to set up a "forgiveness fund" that anyone can draw from. A fountain anyone can drink from.

God didn't order him to do it. He could have chosen otherwise--he had free will like anybody else. But he chose another path, a higher path. If Jesus gave up his life, literally, you can give up your life figuratively and make a separation from sin and unhappiness.

Answer 4

Jesus didn't take all our sins on the cross.

If he did, then no one could ever again be sent to hell, people would no longer die, baptism would be unneccesary, and Jesus would still be serving a few billion concurrent sentences in hell.

His atonement simply made the forgiveness of sins possible.

It remains our reponsibility to swear faithful allegiance to Christ, in baptism, and to repent in order for sins to be forgiven.

As for why he needed to suffer ... Jesus' passion was an endurance match between the forces of good and evil.

If Satan could have caused Jesus to quit, short of his goal, through the application of excessive pain and suffering, than Satan would have won, and we would still be enslaved to Satan, sin, and death.

Jesus didn't quit ... and since Satan was ultimately responsible for Christ's death ... and no one, not even Satan, has the authority to take the life of a sinless man, let alone the only begottten son of God ... the moment Jesus died, Satan was judged, stripped of all that he had earlier gained from Adam's sin, and left powerless and destitute.

That is how and why Christ's suffering and death was effective.

Since Jesus is man, the grace he obtained accrues to the benefit of all mankind.

Since he is God, the abundance and effectiveness of that grace is infinite and eternal.

The church Jesus founded, and particularly the sacraments of the church, along with the Mass, are the primary channels of grace in the world today.

Answer 5

All blood has a thought to it. The thoughts that come the Blood of Saviour is love. Love covers a multitude of sin. This sin is the separation that accured when each soul (lesser god) was invested in a fleshly body. This caused emity between the Holy Spirit and each spirit invested in flesh. We plead the Blood of Jesus to proclaim that our soul (heavenly body) is in contract with Soul or Heavenly Origin (Father) Soul or God. Testing spirits have to respect that you have accepted this part of the convenant. The testing spirits see the thought of God's love on your soul, it is the Blood of Jesus.
In the olden days this ordained or authorized animal blood was acceptable in the same way.

P.S. The Holy Spirit that made the sacrificial lamb or Thought of God is the great power we have.

Answer 6

I am a catholic.

I guess the point is not about the blood. The whole point is about sacrifice. A pain in the heart is a sacrifice. Talking about blood in exchange of forgiveness is as ignorant as isreal's first tribes' mentalities... and other polytheist beliefs.

Now the question we should as is: what is the meaning of Jesus ACCEPTING the cross?

Jesus loves us infinitely. God loves us infinitely.

You certainly love ur children infinitely. What is the biggest sacrifice u can offer them in order to save their lives? i guess u would be ready to die for them , right? Well, you are no greater than God. Jesus is ready to give up his life for YOU, coz he loves you infinitely.

Now we can ask the following two questions: why did he have to die on the cross? and how did he take away our sins?

1- Accepting the cross: Jesus here did the EXACT same decision as the prodigal son's father. That father accepted the bad treatment of his own dear son, and gave him what he asked for. He knew he will come back, and he did. When the son came back, he was sorrowful and regretting of his act.


2- Entire humanity is God's children. God cannot resist his children's will to harm Him. He knows that by being patient, He could save His children's souls (just like the parabole of the prodigal son). Those who were rude to Him will sooner or later discover they were wrong, and thus feel God's great love when he simply abided to their will, according them absolute freedom. Jesus saved our souls (us, Christians, who actually believed in Jesus Christ as He apears in the Gospel) by having us aware of his great love and true will to lead us towards the light. It's all a matter of awareness: we can see the truth through our minds. God wants us to think for ourselves. The Gospel is not a piece of poetry, where "Jesus' blood washed your sins" is said so elegantly and gracefully.

This is the wisdom behind Jesus' crucifixion.

God loves us ==> is ready to die for us ==> accepted our judging Him ==> Jesus was crucified ==> those who got aware of what happened had their eyes open, and knew God's infinite love and compassion ==> they believed in Jesus ==> they were saved.

I hope my analysis is right.

Answer 7

The penalty for sin is death (no sin can come into the presence of the Father).

The only way to be pardoned it to have a Innocent (sinless) person take your place.

We all have sinned.

God sent Jesus to be our Savior. He lived a perfect life and He was killed for claiming to be our Savior (Messiah).

He took our sins and forgave us. All we have to do is accept His sacrifice and live according to God's word.

Answer 8

Profound question. And one that depends on where you stand, denominationally speaking.

In Christian thought, atonement is humanity's reconciliation with God through the sacrifice of Jesus' death. Human sin is thought to damage the relationship between people and God, but Jesus' death enables humanity to "get right" with God.

How does this work? Different Christian groups understand the atonement in different ways, many of which overlap. One way, the 'ransom' approach, draws on Mark 10:45, where Jesus says he gives his life as a "ransom for many." The 'Satisfaction' or 'Vicarious Atonement' approach says that Jesus' blood is payment to God for human sins. Since the penalty for sin is death, someone had to pay it; Jesus paid the debt in place of humanity, giving humans eternal life. This ties in with a view of the atonement as the fulfillment of divine justice. Though many liberal Christians find this view's transactional language and emphasis on justice harsh, the 'vicarious atonement' view is held as truth among evangelcial Protestants and other conservative Christians. A more liberal view maintains that Jesus' death was an example to his followers, not a form of blood sacrifice.

Most Christians of any denomination would say Jesus' death demonstrates God's love for humankind.

Personally - I am in the "Vicarious Atonement" camp. Your mileage may vary.

Answer 9

i imagine you're slamming Christianity, yet be that because it would want to, i might want to bypass for classical mythology because the learn of Christian mythology is extra accessible outdoors the tutorial international than classical mythology. take income of the substances at the same time as they arrive in. you would learn the technical definition of mythology which suits some thing like this: Mythology is a concept or gadget of beliefs which significantly impacts how a human beings imagine and behave; a international view. word that this definition says no longer some thing about the veracity of the concept(s).

Answer 10

Yeah, kinda funny how women continue to get punished forever for what Eve did, but Jesus took away men's sins by dying on the cross.

This sort of misogyny is rampant in the bible and includes that women should remain silent in church and, if they want to learn something, they should ask their husbands at home.

And you are looking for logic in the bible???? You mean like the logic of talking serpents? . . . THAT kind of logic?