This question has been in my mind for a while. I thought why not ask everyone that reads this and get their opinion. I don't think there is a right or wrong answer. Nor do I think that this question condems anyone to he!!. It's just a question, and all I ask for is opinions. Seeing as you know what the defintion of the word martyr, look it up there are 3 possibilities in the Webster dictionary.
2007-02-19 15:24:11 · 8 answers · asked by mighty1981mouse 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus certainly died, he was certainly a witness, and he certainly did what he did for the faith, even if he didn't require faith, himself.
Sounds to me like Jesus was the original Christian martyr, who died to redeem us from the original sin of his forefather, Adam.
2007-02-19 21:13:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was Jesus A Martyr
2016-11-09 21:58:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I pulled these two definitions from Yahoo dictionary, and I don't believe Jesus fits into either of them:
1. One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
2. One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.
These reason I don't think Jesus fits into these is because Jesus didn't die for a religion that was already in place, like the early Christian martyrs did. Jesus WAS the religion, WAS the Faith. He was not trying to further a cause or principle, because He WAS - no, IS the cause and principle. He IS salvation. These definitions suggest someone who was a follower of a certain belief or religion. Jesus is not the follower, but the Founder. There would be no Faith without Him.
God bless.
2007-02-19 15:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by Danny H 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was definitely NOT a martyr. To say so is false teaching and antibiblical. Jesus was the atoning sacrifice for the sins of the world Rom 3:25. He died for sins 1Cor 15:3-4; Rom 4:25; 1 peter 3:18; 1 peter 2:24; not for a belief or cause. A martyr dies for their faith in Christ, or for their belief, Jesus died because the wages of sin is death Rom 6:23, and "God made him who knew no sin, to be sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" 2 Corinthians 5:21
2016-09-15 05:23:08 · answer #4 · answered by brianbritt 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A martyr is a person who is put to death or endures suffering because of a belief, principle or cause. The death of a martyr or the value attributed to it is called martyrdom. In different belief systems, the criteria for being considered a martyr is different. In the Christian context, a martyr is an innocent person who, without seeking death, is murdered or put to death for his or her religious faith or convictions. An example is the persecution of early Christians in the Roman Empire. Christian martyrs sometimes decline to defend themselves at all, in what they see as an imitation of Jesus' willing sacrifice.
2007-02-19 15:32:38 · answer #5 · answered by Jo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was "the perfect sacrifice." - Does that constitute the definition of a martyr? If your child was marked for death and you stepped in and died in your child's place so that the child lived instead of you - is that martyrdom? That is what Jesus did.
2007-02-19 15:50:09 · answer #6 · answered by wd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Yep, you could say He was the first "Christian" martyr.
2016-04-01 09:57:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a sufferer assuming that he actually died on a cross
2007-02-19 15:31:08 · answer #8 · answered by Mayonaise 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God so loved the world that he willed his only begotten son to not condemn the world, but love it.
2016-03-13 01:27:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus did not die on the cross.
2007-02-19 15:32:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋