And I'm not interested in scripture quotes. They can be interpreted a million different ways.
2007-02-17 22:05:18 · 23 answers · asked by acrobatic 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A God who practices what S/he preaches and believes in love will not engage in murder, or promote it ... as in the alleged slaying of Jesus. That's hypocrisy.
A God who is almighty is capable of letting go of grudges and forgiving peoples' alleged sins without any special conditions having to be put into place.
How would you feel if your father loved a group of people so much that he allegedly tossed you at them to suffer. Forgiveness should NOT be conditional. Period.
God allegedly makes the rules, so there's no reason He can't lead by example and exercise unconditional forgiveness w/out violent expression. Gosh this is so obvious I'm laughing hard.
And no, I didn't quote scripture. And yes, anything in there can be interpreted in countless ways. If you don't think so, try me lol.
2007-02-17 22:51:07 · update #1
These are man made alterations and additions in Christianity, to justify their sins. The God is Unique, and free of such requirements.
2007-02-17 22:14:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Doesn't a wrong doing deserve a punishment? It makes a degree of sense that the sin of an entire world would have to be punished, it also makes sense that a perfect person could take the place of the world and reap the punishment instead. The "slaying" was necessary as a consequence of sin.
By the way, not all scriptures can be interpreted in a million way, MANY are frightfully clear on their point.
2007-02-18 06:13:39 · answer #2 · answered by shades2006 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The many interpretations are yours but there is only one "right" understanding for a time and times. Your misunderstanding dates back to Cane who thought flowers and veggies, not blood, should be the way to go.
A saving without blood "might" be possible if you were not human and your life was not in your blood.
Even in the OT it is pointed out that the sacrifices of God are a humble and contrite heart. God is a spirit and does not really need blood. Man however does (hence the pagan rituals) and God provided His blood because yours would not do.
You might ask yourself why you do so well at questioning things from what you presume to be God's viewpoint? It is the pits for would-be god's to accept their humanity in humility; in the face of inevitable death in a bloody body of flesh and bone.
2007-02-18 08:49:49 · answer #3 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all, let's look at the premise of "saving mankind" Mankind doesn't need to be saved from anything. A newborn child has no sin, no wrongdoing that warrants him being saved so this whole idea that Jesus spilt his blood and was a sacrificial lamb
" saving" mankind is without warrant. Then God never let Jesus die anyway. He took him up to heaven. There are those who will tell you that the only way mankind could be " saved" (as if they needed it in the first place") was for God to perform the ultimate sacrifice, allowing " his son" to be sacrified for the sake of all mankind's sin, essentially wiping out all people's sin and beating the devil in his game by the act of " God's love for man" i.e. giving his only son, by offering the greatest gift to another, one's life, by using "LOVE " and " Giving" as the weapon against Satan as he would not recognize such deeds. Mankind doesn't need to be "saved" anyway. It's each man and woman for himself / herself respectively.
2007-02-18 06:17:14 · answer #4 · answered by me 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think most people don't realize how serious mankind's sin was when we ate the forbidden fruit. Even though we were living in paradise we thumbed our nose at God and basically said we wanted to be like God himself. God had warned us that we would die if we ate from that tree. So, a blood sacrifice had to be made, otherwise it would not have been fair to the rest of creation.
2007-02-18 06:14:06 · answer #5 · answered by TJ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because of the law that God had to establish in order for there to be guidelines for living- because He is just. God's law was designed to protect humans and create a safe, ordered society. As with any law, in breaking them there had to be consequences or society would be chaotic. Therefore God ordered that blood sacrifice must be offered to make payment for breaking a law. Most of the time this was an animal or bird. I dont know why He made this rule as I am not God but perhaps it was so that, in sacrificing an animal, humans would realise the seriousness of what they had done and would refrain from sin in thefuture.
Anyways, God didnt really want sacrifices but changed hearts but because of the law the world was founded on there had to be blood sacrifice. So God sent His son Jesus, who being fully God and fully man was perfect. He never once broke the law.He fulfilled the law. So He was the 'lamb of God', the one time sacrifice for everyones sins, so that in believing in Him and showing Him the honour He is due, our breaking ofthe law is atoned for. Because of this He overcame the curse (death) we put ourselves under in breaking the law, He rose from the dead and through Him we can have eternal life.
So there you have it. In short He had to sacrifice His son because of the laws the world was formed under.
2007-02-18 06:36:40 · answer #6 · answered by angelvic_83 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God could have offered us the gift of salvation without "a slaying," but being the way we are, would we have gotten the message?
As people, one of our weak points is this: it usually takes something big and dramatic for us to finally "get it" -- whatever "it" is.
As a group, we humans have a tendency to take things for granted. But it's hard, if we really think about it, to take for granted something like a crucifixion.
Especially when the crucified man was innocent, yet willingly endured this death for our eternal sake.
It was a powerful statement, and for us humans, it often takes a powerful statement for us to "get the message."
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2007-02-18 06:10:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
But that's the beauty of Christianity -- no one has to take responsibility for himself. No one is accountable -- Jesus has assumed all responsibility.
Tommy: Cain's sacrifice was not acceptable because it wasn't the "first fruits." Read the text more closely -- there's no guessing about it.
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2007-02-18 09:02:18 · answer #8 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you do not want scripture quotes, why did you quote the word God. are you foolish? slaying of mankind is not the well of God, it is the doings of satan in tempting man to do it
2007-02-18 06:17:31 · answer #9 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Only the shedding of innocent blood can forgive sins.
2007-02-18 06:59:04 · answer #10 · answered by michael m 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋