Would a 'Just' God, a 'Fair' God, a 'Loving' God -- punish Jesus for the sins of the people that he called to follow him?
2007-02-03 03:17:51 · 5 answers · asked by Jessi 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Can't God just forgive us and not have to kill Jesus? Is killing Jesus not murder?why does God have to prove..
his love for us Isn't he all powerful? why can he say be to things and they just are??? Does that not sound like a bit weak of a statement to you????
2007-02-03 03:18:44 · update #1
Mere mortals trying to dictate what God should and shouldn't do is very funny
2007-02-03 03:21:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
God is attempting to have a meaningful relationship with us. In order for that to occur we need to be willing to listen to Him. If God did as you suggest, just forgive everyone no questions asked, then how would we be aware of the significance of sin and separation from God? The reality is that God had to show us just how important we are to Him. By sacrificing His son and demonstrating the reality of our ways He has proved His commitment to us and love for us.
Many people will write about the theological significance of sacrificial blood. I would only say that while that may be an interesting intellectual exercise, it fails to answer this question adequately. God has reached out to us through Jesus, showing us how we should live. Jesus's life demonstrates the tragedy of sinfulness in humanity.
2007-02-03 03:27:38 · answer #2 · answered by Boilerfan 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the god of the middle easten religions isn t fair how can god punish people for not believing in him? i have asked a question if a person who was great did alot of work feeding orphans and the homeless was an atheist would he get into heaven and so christian pastor told me no he would go to hell but then i asked a priest and the priest said yes god would take him to heaven so i dont know about all this stuff god confuses me
2007-02-03 05:13:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Instead of my answering this, take some time and open your bible to the book of Job. Read the last couple of chapters. Your question actually will be answered by God....who asks Job about 40 questions addressing pretty much this same topic.
2007-02-03 03:22:13 · answer #4 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
You do not understand the big picture.
God is eternal having neither beginning of days or end of life, a Spirit fire or light called life. The Word begins with thought from conscious awareness I am, acquiring wisdom to reason thought to self with the Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God. This wisdom of thought with words is not any substance or matter but Spirit, the Holy Spirit. God is One, by Himself or alone with His Words the Holy Spirit. This timeless existence of reasoning wanted company and God’s thoughts turn to creating company or sons. Sons to behold, abide with, and communion with. God discovered love, not of the thought, but of the sons He envisioned. God felt this love, the magnificence of it and wanted His sons to love Him. God realized He could not create true love or forced it upon a being, but true love would only manifest in sons of freewill. The wisdom of God also knew it would be necessary to govern sons of freewill by laws that are fair and righteous, to hold them accountable. God was willing to risk rejection and rebellion against the law. Sons of freewill could choose not to love Him but must obey the law. The sons would need a place to abide, explore, and grow. God created the heavens and the earth, His kingdom.
Then, God the Father created all souls with intellect within a spirit body and with freewill. The law/s of this kingdom is unknown, but God is King and this was His dominion. One of God’s sons with freewill named Satan rebelled against God and the law. One third of God’s children followed Satan. God sentenced Satan to perish. The soul that sins shall die. Satan accused his followers of his same sin. Satan has the power or legal right, to accuse one third of the sons of God. God loved His children and could not destroy the one third. Instead, God destroyed that earth age. The earth became waste and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Now in this earth age, sons of freewill placed in flesh bodies, are born innocents through the womb. With no knowledge of events of the rebellion are free to choose to follow God or Satan, a choice of eternal life or eternal death.
Satan and his close followers continued to rebel. God allows Satan and his followers some headway. Using this as the negative part of His plan, this is ultimately positive.
God’s plan forasmuch then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood. He also Himself in the Son Jesus Christ likewise took part of the same. That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil or Satan. Delivering them whom through fear of death was all their lifetime subject to bondage. Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son and the express image of God’s person, God with us, became legal inheritor of the kingdom. Paid the price for sin, for the life of the flesh is in the blood. God has given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls. For it is the blood, that makes atonement for the soul. God made Christ to have dominion over the works of His hands and has put all things under Christ’s feet.
2007-02-03 03:21:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋