Christians: If Jesus died for your sins and he's God, isn't that saying that God saved us from himself

Question

...or in other words - he changed his mind.

But who does the damnation?

Primoa: If Jesus is God, then God is simply changing his mind.

Answer 1

god sacrificed himself. . to himself. .to appease himself. . for crimes committed to himself

makes sense huh?

If you're going to forgive someone. . forgive them. . .you don't need some symbolic fairytale to accomplish this.
An all powerful deity shouldn't need it either.

Answer 2

Jesus and God the father are ONE God, completely united. Jesus suffered the penalty for the sins we commit so we don't might desire to go through that penalty. Accepting Jesus' sacrifice does not make us suited. He died to pay the penalty of sins previous, recent and destiny. 'Stoning adulterers', etc have been actual effects below the previous Covenant. Jesus became the God of the previous testomony and the mediator of the previous Covenant. At his death, the previous Covenant give up and he presented the recent Covenant. The death penalty Jesus saved us from is eternal death, not actual death.

Answer 3

If that were the case, then yes. However, Jesus Christ was not only fully God, but also fully man. He was the final sacrifice for our sins. God sacrificed His Son so we could be forgiven of our sins without the shedding of blood (sacrificing animals.) It's a gift. All that is required is that we accept and receive the gift of salvation. All there is to it.

Answer 4

I'm a bit confused about your question. All I can tell you is that God knew that we needed a saviour to redeem us and there needed to be a perfect sacrafice in order for us to be cleansed from all our sin. God robed himself in flesh not only to be the perfect sacrafice, but also to feel as humans feel and experience what we have to go through in daily life. He needed a body to sacrafice on the cross and have innocent blood shed for us to be saved. Any person who accepts Christ and what he sacraficed for us can be made new and have a relationship with him and be spiritually born again and have eternal life in heaven with him. Sounds like a wonderful promise! Many people say that they don't believe in God simply because they can't see him, but people hunger and people love and both of these you cannot see, but can only feel. If you seek for truth and ask the Lord to reveal himself to you, you will be able to feel him and his love surrounding you.

Answer 5

The holiness of God cannot abide with sin. In order for man to be reconcilled to God he had to die, or more precisely, a sinless sacrifice had to be made in his behalf. The book of Hebrews talks about the blood sacrifices of bulls and goats which had to be offered year after year by the highpriests, which could only cover sins of the preceeding year.
Jesus was the sinless Lamb of God provided by himself to not only cover past sins, but to restore man's holiness so that he can approach God without the sin nature that Adam passed down to him or her.
Jesus not only died for your sins, he died for your sin.
"The consequences of sin is death"

Answer 6

Absolutely, he allowed Satan to tempt eve, knowing that sin would permiate the world and cause millions to burn in hell.

God actively made a choice to allow sin to kill people, then changed his mind and provided a way for non-jews to be saved.

Prior to the NT, if you happened to be born in the majority of the world that weren't Jewish, you automatically were destined for Hell. God decided after Jesus was crucified and paid the price that Gentiles living after his resurection were able to go to heaven.

Seems like a bum wrap for all the egyptians, hittites, aboriginees, africans, american indians, asians, europeans, russians, south americans, solomon islanders etc. that were unforntunate enough to be born prior to Christs death and resurection. Thems the breaks with a loving God though.

Or is this just a doctrine that Paul created that isn't really biblical, and all gentile Christians are doomed. That would mean that only Messianic Jews will make it to paradise.

Answer 7

Try this explanation:
In the garden of Eden were two trees
One the tree of life, and two, the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Sin came from mans bite of forbidden fruit from the tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
Mans eyes became opened, and he knew sin.
And death came to man.
All things God created was by his knowledge.
Science will never have all the knowledge that God has, but we do have all the knowledge of good and evil.
In fact, it will be mans knowledge that will become his downfall, because unless you are working to understand the knowledge that God wants you to have, then you are studying the knowledge that MAN wants to have.
That is evil.
Go not on mans understanding and traditions, because that is a sure path to destruction.

Christ is the other tree in the garden.
God said, before he kicked Adam and Eve out " Now they have become like us, knowing good and evil, place them out of the garden before they eat of the tree of life, and live forever."
Jesus is the Living Spirit of the living word of God.
Not THE GOD, but the one whom God has placed as the fruit of the tree for us to eat, and to release us from the death that came from Adams actions.

Answer 8

His death saved us from ourselves. We are born in sin because of Adam making a choice to sin. That it what seperates us from God. His death is the bridge to reconnect to God, and it is the only way. There is nothing confusing about that. People struggle with understanding that they are born sinners and need a Saviour to be in the presence of God.

Answer 9

As a Baptist (christian), I beleive that Jesus is God's only SON... Not God reincarnated... "For God so loved the people that he gave his only begotten son..." Jesus died on the cross to clense us of our sins, because he loved us. Then, rose again from death, to prove his devine presence.

Answer 10

Yeah, that's a problem.

Of course, the actual truth is that Jesus is not God, never was God, and never claimed to be God.
That's just something the Church Fathers stole from ancient Babylon cuz it looked cool.

Jesus died for our sins and he's God's Son. God saved us from his unchangeable righteous standards. Once Adam and Eve messed everything up, God decided to fix it with a sacrifice.
One perfect human had to willing offer his life to balance the one perfect human who forfeited his. Of all the people to choose from, God chose his only-begotten son, because he represented the most perfect and most valuable sacrifice of all.

Answer 11

Do you really want to know or are you just asking these questions for the lack of nothing better to do? No he died to save us from the place He made intended for Lucifer and the other fallen angels. No by dying on the cross He saved us from our sins. Peace out...........