2007-02-12 05:19:11 · 30 answers · asked by Billybww 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't believe Jesus had to die anymore than Mary was a virgin. It's all made up as the church wants to keep us in their control.
Think about it, does it make any sense?
Read Conversations with God, by Neale Walsh. It's great & explains a lot.
Jesus was a master soul in human form. He came to set an example & teach us. He was murdered b/c he threatened the society of his day. Let's face it, people get killed if others in society don't like the message.
We're killing each other all the time in the name of religion.
2007-02-12 05:26:18 · answer #1 · answered by ♣Hey jude♣ 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
He required the perfect sacrifice, it is written in the old testament in the law that shedding of blood is required.
Incidentally, this question strikes to the heart of a verse in Jude, in the new testament. It says in the end times people will basically go into the way that Cain did.
God obviously directed how He wanted to be worshipped, Abel followed, Cain did not.
And now a days, people don't want the Jesus God sent. They want some other way, a different Jesus, something not so ...offensive or bloody.
But, God calls the shots doesn't He?
2007-02-12 13:26:39 · answer #2 · answered by Jed 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure about my answer but we were told that when you offend a high ranking person like a king, you have to repair the damage to the king. Now God is the Supreme Being. When men sin against God, this is an injustice against His Goodness so someone must repair the damage done. Only God could appeace the offense against God. So God had to send His only begotten Son, Who is also God, to atone for men and women's sins. This way, there is justice, because God is merciful but He is also just. So to show us His love, and to give us an example of how to love, to show us the way to heaven and how to love, He chose to die for us on the cross. Of course, He could forgive us, but maybe He wanted to show us His love. This also shows us the redemptive value of suffering. When we suffer, our sins are forgiven. Suffering opens the gates of heaven for our brothers and sisters. Jesus, the lamb of God was sacrificed to atone for and make reparation for our sins.
2007-02-13 05:47:52 · answer #3 · answered by hope 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.
The righteous has to die for the unrighteousness. It has to be a spotless lamb/ sacrifice.
God said, "The day you eat of it you will surely die." God can't go back on His Word. Jesus was tempted by the snake, like the 1st Adam, only Jesus overcame the snakes deceptions. So, He was without sin in His humity. So, bore our sins on the cross, but he being without sin, (the penalty of sin is death) death couldn't keep Him in the grave. He raised victorious with the keys to death & hell overcoming the grave for us.
We need a way to have our sins atoned for, because our sins have separated us from God. The sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit (calling Gods miracles evil), the sin of rebelling against God and Gods Truth. We can't repare our own way to God. Jesus is the only way. It has to be Gods Way or no way at all.
2007-02-12 13:27:00 · answer #4 · answered by LottaLou 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God provided the way for all men. We need to respond to the good news.
The holiness of God demanded death for disobedience. Death of a sinless man. Since there were no sinless men alive, God had to provide one. Jesus was born of a woman, which made him a man, but was not born of a human father, which made him divine. He was sinless and died for all men's sins.
But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn! This is not a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan-this rebirth comes from God.
So the Word became human and lived here on earth among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father.
John 1:12-14
2007-02-12 13:29:46 · answer #5 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It gives religion a focus for its convert's guilt. If you really think about it, the Jesus story is just an elaborate scapegoating. It assumes that as long as someone is punished for what you do wrong, it all works out. That just doesn't work in reality.
Imagine that we had a serial killer killing a bunch of people, and the court decided that the death sentence was appropriate punishment for this crime. Would it really make sense to just walk outside and gun down a random person? No, not at all. If someone does something wrong, it doesn't really help to punish someone else. Yet, we're supposed to think that because the Romans killed Jesus for his apostacy, that somehow makes any wrong we do OK. Sorry, but it just doesn't work that way.
However, religion isn't about reason. It's about emotion. And the story of someone giving up his life for the benefit of others is emotionally powerful. Christianity capitalizes on this by making Jesus the focus for its convert's guilt. The more guilty you can make someone feel about the "sacrifice" that another made, the easier it is to keep the convert dependent on the church.
2007-02-12 13:22:03 · answer #6 · answered by nondescript 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
As a kid (before growing skeptical of the whole story) I thought the real lesson was to beware the hypocrisy of your establishment.
To painfully illustrate that power corrupts and that no earthly organization is actually divine. Not the church - not the state.
That they must always be questioned and held to scrutiny.
I mean the church and state tortured and crucified the prince of peace...! A guy who fed poor people, cured leprosy and preached love and tolerance...
I still love those lessons but I don't enjoy how many religous folks cower to their big business churches just part of the same flock that enabled a bloody crime against a peaceful man 2000 years ago. To me the very human lesson has been lost in the mysticism and mumbo jumbo of the trinity and the rituals and the tithies and the flowing purple robes, jewel encrusted crosses, torture, long-winded speeches, etc etc etc........................
After all either he was a just a man wrongly sentenced or it's all just a fable. That's real martyrdom - the islamabad would be served well to learn from that style of martyr or from the shaolin monks in china. Not to murder civilians but to illustrate hypocrisy.
2007-02-12 13:29:28 · answer #7 · answered by Nicholas J 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God intends to do away with Satan. and He is going to do it properly. He in all fairness intends to do it properly by following a law that He expects us to abide by.That law is Deuteronomy chapter 19 verse 11. Basically what that says is that if a person commits premeditated murder then the avenger of blood (usually next of kin) is to execute the murderer. Well since Satan instructed his descendants on earth to cause the death of Jesus that makes him a murderer. And Jesus' next of kin (God) has the right to execute him. So that shows that He was willing to be bound by the same law we are.
2007-02-12 13:54:34 · answer #8 · answered by swindled 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Justice must always be satisfied. Jesus atoned and died that He might satisfiy justice concerning our sins. Only when this was done could God show mercy to us and by His grace offer us forgiveness if we repent and continually do better.
2007-02-12 13:25:47 · answer #9 · answered by Answergirl 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God made up the rules and He required a blood sacrifice. Jesus being sinless was the perfect sacrifice.
2007-02-12 14:14:09 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋