2007-01-30 17:19:06 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Explain this if you think Jesus is God.?
2007-01-30 17:19:44 · update #1
Was Jesus the "final blood offering"?
the final sacrifice for the sins of man to God?
If Jesus is God, explain why he would come down in order to sacrifice himself to himself?
2007-01-30 17:20:58 · update #2
He sacrificed his life for us, like when you stand in front of someone and take a bullet for them. You're not thinking about giving your life to someone who's someplace else, you're giving your life for the one whose life you're saving. You're giving your life to them. Jesus is God incarnate. He didn't give his life to himself, he gave it to us.
2007-01-30 17:34:40 · answer #1 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is a really crazy story. Especially since, as the creator of all things with full foreknowledge of everything that would happen, God was responsible for the entire affair. Any court would hold him liable for everything that happened. I think God must have been very proud to have created a being that could question his orders and disobey him. I bet when they ate that apple in the garden God said "I did it! I really did it!" Except that's another crazy story and the whole thing is very ungodlike. So stop killing each other over this nonsense and demand a better class of diety. Don't worship a being that would create a whole world full of beings he knows in advance he will later damn to an eternity of torment. That does not deserve worship. And if you say I'll be damned if I don't, then that worship has no value anyway since it is the result of a threat, and not real love at all. Don't worship a being that can't see the difference between fear and love. God would have to be smarter than me, wouldn't he? I know the difference. I think Jesus clued God in on what was really going on with us when he said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they do." He had to be born to find that out. But we all die. It is a result of having been born.
If Jesus came and lived a perfect life and then insisted he couldn't be in heaven without the rest of us, because it would not really be heaven if we weren't there, then I say he made us a loophole for which I will be be eternally grateful. Jesus said "Be perfect as I am perfect." So let us try to do that.
2007-01-31 01:30:52 · answer #2 · answered by Nowpower 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some would say expiation. Some would say propitiation. But so that man could meet God's standard is the reason. Jesus who is just, came to save a bunch of unjust creatures such as myself. Jesus glorified the Father by doing so, proving the love he has for his creation, mankind. But he didn't want just any man - indeed, he rejects many. But those that trust him are the ones that he wants with him in eternity.
That's the truth.
2007-01-31 01:31:25 · answer #3 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that question is valid and not far from the truth.
He knew we couldn't do it so He did it. Because He loves us and must honor His own righteous law of blood for blood. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.
Our Father loves us very very much. It was not an easy thing. Not easy at all. I do not think Jesus and the Father are the same person but consider in a perfect bond of love they are the same person. Would not a father die for his son if he could?
Immanuel means "God with us".
2007-01-31 01:36:27 · answer #4 · answered by David P 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jesus came to do what man could not do... Live a perfect life free from sin so that they could enter into Heaven..
Adam was free from sin until the fall. Then sin and death entered into the picture. Christ came to earth to live the perfect life, be sacrificed to fulfill the full measure of judgement of God's Law. Therefore, man would be able to put Christ's record in place of their sinful life.
Christ paid the penalty for sin, the eternal blood sacrifice. Fulfilling the full requirements of God's law.
2007-01-31 01:25:50 · answer #5 · answered by James B 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The triune nature of God isn't easily explained, which, in a way, lends credence, i mean wouldn't the ignorant people "of old" who apparantly wrote the Bible edit that one because it was too difficult to explain? Or maybe no matter how God had explained himself it wouldn't make sense to the mortal mind..Anyway your question has more to do with the "physics" of the spiritual world....There is no "free parking", things have to be paid for...and Jesus paid for you! so, keep asking...
2007-01-31 01:27:46 · answer #6 · answered by paradigm 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All of that is from the 'satisfaction' theory put forth by Anselm in the 11th century, which is based on Augustine's doctrine of original (or inherited) guilt.
According to the New Testament, as well as the indigenous Churches of Asia, Africa, India, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Jesus died so that the Church could participate in his resurrection - not as a blood atonement or human sacrifice meant to appease the wrath of an angry Deity.
2007-01-31 01:25:43 · answer #7 · answered by NONAME 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Somewhere in the bible someone said that 1000 years to us is like a day to God. So if you have to translate 3 days of suffering to gods frame of reference that would be like a paper cut to us. So not only did he sacrifice himself to himslef he didn't even suffer much when seen from a god's viewpoint.
2007-01-31 02:40:02 · answer #8 · answered by Rabble Rouser 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no this is a bunch of gibberish the Christians mad up orer time to lie to them selves . like taking 10 people and telling a story to the first person , by the time the story gets to the last person it vever resembles the original story.
as per one of my questions,
1.Jesus wrongly thought he fit the role of savior,
at the time their were a lot of saviors, and profits running around , he just was un lucky that they didn't burn the evidence of his preaching like they destroyed the evidence of the other preachers.
2..the head priest ran a mafia organization ,and was afraid that Jesus was muscling in on his territory and put a contract out on his life.to have him murdered. the Jewish mafia, had Jesus whacked.
2007-02-02 03:42:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, some christians say Jesus was only the son while others will say he is God! Wow...but anyways, it's not a valid point since Jesus isn't God!
2007-01-31 01:27:05 · answer #10 · answered by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is the Father, who sent his son throughthe Vigin,Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, to earth. He suffered on the cross for the sins of mankind, so that we may inherit the kingdom of God in Heaven.
God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son. <><
2007-01-31 01:26:58 · answer #11 · answered by Reenie W 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋