Jesus was fully god and fully man?

Question

Then why would he sacrifice himself to himself?
That doesn't make any sense.

J.P. - we have to attack our archetypes, else how would we understand them?

Answer 1

No It's you that don't make any sense. Thank about what you are saying before a wet behind the ears little twit like you tries to bother Christians. You just make yourself look silly.

Answer 2

In the courts of heaven, God the Father wanted to save mankind from sin, God the Son was sent to be the sacrifice and God the Holy Spirit applies that sacrifice to the repentant heart. God the Son left heaven to be born a human. He "folded up His Godhood and all its attributes like a garment" and came to live fully as a human. His blood was not human however - it was God blood, sinless and not having the nature of sin (Jesus is the ONLY one who had Divine blood). That is why He could be fully God and fully man at the same time. His sacrifice was to appease the Law of Divine Justice so that you would not have to spend an eternity in hell separated from God your Creator.

Answer 3

God, the Father - before time began had a plan of salvation - Jesus Christ. When He created the universe and its contents He already had a plan in place knowing that we would need salvation. Jesus Christ is God clothed in human flesh - being fully God. Jesus did the will of the Father, and took on humanity to fulfill God's requirement for blood sacrifice - a perfect sacrifice would only be acceptable....

Answer 4

There are many things that we can not "fully" understand. That is why "by FAITH you are saved, and that not of yourselves, it is a GIFT of God." Ephesians 2

John 1:1- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

The Word is Jesus Christ, the eternal, ultimate expression of God. In the OT God spoke the world into existence; in the gospel God spoke His final word through the living Word, His Son. The phrase "the Word was God" attributes deity to the Word without defining all of the Godhead as "the Word." The event of Jesus' incarnation had cosmic significance- this verse is an allusion to Genesis 1:1, with the intetion of linking Jesus the Word with the God of creation.

1 Timothy 4:10- "...beccause we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe."

The salvation that God intended for ALL MEN he gives to THOSE WHO BELIEVE. Those who do not believe, who fail to appropriate the riches of God's grace, will have an eternity to express their regrets.

Answer 5

I think the message is that being fully man...He understood his sacrifice and felt the pain, both physically and emotionally...being fully God....he could have stopped this and therefore left us to pay our own sin debt....how much more precious the sacrifice is it, that He did it willingly...fully knowing the extent of that sacrifice?

Answer 6

Half of what is in the Bible doesn't make sense Christians choose to ignore this. There is still no proof Jesus sacrificed himself. If I remember the story right he didn't nail himself up there so how is that self sacrifice

Answer 7

One could ask the same of Mithras and Odhinn.

I'm all with you on the atheism thing, but you really are gonna have to avoid attacking the archetypes that are common to practically all religions on the planet.

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My point being you singled out a specific example of the archetype. I would rephrase the question as such: "Why does practically every religion on the planet have an example of the primary deity making some significant sacrifice of itself to itself?"

Answer 8

You have the second part of that question incorrect. He sacrificed himself - yes, but FOR us?

*A person can't sacrifice their self TO someone else. They can submit to someone else.

That's what Jesus did. He submitted himself to be the focal-point of our sins. Men beat & tortured, lied on, took from, and spit upon him (our sins). He took that and still died on our behalf. The body (flesh) died and his Spirit ascended into heaven to rejoin with the God.

Answer 9

You will never figure out the Trinity with only a finite brain....It takes the revelation of the holy Spirit...without that you'll never get it.

Have you ask the Father to forgive you yet....based solely on what Jesus Christ did on your behalf???

Answer 10

In other words, can the Creator be a created?

Can the Perfect be imperfect? (Jesus fasted and got hungry)

Can Light become darkness?

Am not saying Jesus was in any way, a representation of darkness.

But if I for once believed that a part of God had actually died, even physically, it would go agaisnt believing God is eternal