God had a human sacrifice?
This is one big reason why,Jews that I know do not accept the sacrifice of Jesus as being of God, can you explain this to me?
2007-02-08 04:23:59 · 13 answers · asked by Mijoecha 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This whole sacrifice thing makes no sense to me. Someone had to die to redeem us? Why? Who makes these rules? They are nonsense rules. This "god" is supposed to have created molecules and atoms and quarks and all the rules of physics and biology and comets and suns and planets and microbes and amoebas and plankton and whales and on and on but for some reason he needs to have someone die because Adam and Eve ate fruit from a tree? So we could be "redeemed"? Bizarre to say the least. Calling this insane is being generous.
2007-02-08 05:58:58 · answer #1 · answered by atheist jesus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Blood was required to cover sin. Jesus being the Perfect Lamb was able to be the one to cover the sin once and for all. It wasn't God's sacrifice. Jesus willing gave Himself up.
Throughout history martyrs have done the same. Willingly died for what they believe.
Many Jews don't see Jesus as the Messiah because He came as a carpenter not a King and they are expecting a KING.
2007-02-08 04:32:40 · answer #2 · answered by Jan P 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It IS wrong to make a human sacrifice. That is why Jesus wasn't sacrificed. In the Quran it says that a man similar looking to Jesus was put up instead of him.
God, I believe wouldn't let one of his prophets be tortured like that.
When I was a Christian I had many unanswered questions. When I turned to the Quran and Islam I discovered many new truths, and had an overall better understanding of life, and what God truly expects of us!
2007-02-08 04:38:52 · answer #3 · answered by January00 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The only human sacrifice that God considers worthy of forgiveness is a sinless one. Only Jesus fit the bill.
And I saw a strong angel, who shouted with a loud voice: "Who is worthy to break the seals on this scroll and unroll it?" But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll and read it.
Then I wept because no one could be found who was worthy to open the scroll and read it. But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, "Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David's throne,* has conquered. He is worthy to open the scroll and break its seven seals."
I looked and I saw a Lamb that had been killed but was now standing between the throne and the four living beings and among the twenty-four elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God that are sent out into every part of the earth. He stepped forward and took the scroll from the right hand of the one sitting on the throne. And as he took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they held gold bowls filled with incense-the prayers of God's people!
And they sang a new song with these words:
"You are worthy to take the scroll
and break its seals and open it.
For you were killed, and your blood has ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation.
And you have caused them to become God's Kingdom and his priests.
And they will reign* on the earth."
Revelations 5:2-10
2007-02-08 04:36:52 · answer #4 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Simple.
Since God knew that the one-time sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, was all that was going to be needed to redeem mankind, it was a pointless waste of life to have hundreds and thousands of other humans sacrificed. Their deaths would be worthless and meaningless. While their lives could bring meaning and value to the world.
God forbid others from doing it because he already had it covered.
2007-02-08 04:40:39 · answer #5 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus was not a "human" sacrifice. He was human, but he was also wholly devine and the sacrifice was made as the son of God, not as the son of man.
2007-02-08 04:29:48 · answer #6 · answered by CamKeeTai 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The animal sacrifices of the Jewish nation were all a fore view of the sacrifice of Christ. It was the only way to balance what Adam had lost.
2007-02-08 04:40:15 · answer #7 · answered by Sal D 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the people of God offered Him sacrifices constantly to repent for their sins. Jesus took all our sins onto himself and then made the ultimate sacrifice with you in mind He died for you so that you could enter into the kingdom of heaven to share in His beauty. He died to save you from an eternity in hell his love for you is so great
2007-02-08 04:40:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God did not require human sacrifice, but the recurring sacrifice of a "perfect" animal to symbolically pay for the continual sins of His people. God also promised to Abram that because of his faith in God, a blessing that THROUGH Abram and his descendents, that all the inhabitants of the Earth would be blessed. Remember that God provided the ram to Abram to take the place of Isaac. Abram was obedient to God in that he was going to sacrifice his son and the promise of blessings that God gave him in his son Isaac, and his faithful obedience was credited to him as righteousness, so God Himself provided the sacrifice of the ram. God Himself would and could provide the only truly perfect complete sacrifice that would be sufficient to pay for everyone's sins once and for all eternally in offering His only Son to us. Christ is our offering for sin provided by God Himself, because all things are provided by God and we could not on our own give anything to God. We are only asked to accept the gift and to acknowledge the meaning of it. Humans did not sacrifice Christ...Jesus could have stopped them at any time. Christ was obedient to God who sent Him for us. God did not get people to sacrifice Jesus to please Him. God provided the sacrifice in Jesus to save us eternally. Jesus is both human and God, so the sacrifice was not human, but Holy and Eternal.
"Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:18-19).
2007-02-08 05:10:34 · answer #9 · answered by Bits 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I dont see Jesus as a human sacrifice.
He was going to be killed one way or another, it was in his chart. But his death brought about something to benefit all man kind. Where as a sacrafice is typically something to appease an angry God or what have you.
2007-02-08 04:29:33 · answer #10 · answered by Steph 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋