Respectfully, I want to ask why Jesus was not condemned to hell permanently at the resurrection - as eternal punishment is the penalty for sin and Jesus took upon Himself the world's sin.
2007-04-15 06:17:42 · 13 answers · asked by Armaani_Jerome 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because Christ's sinless life, yet crucifixion, was not perfect justice. Thus, God was able to reconcile His demand for justice for sin. How so?
God came up with a perfect solution. He became flesh, lived a perfect life, and acted as our representative in God the Father's court of justice. There He was judged and crucified, carrying all the past and future world's sins with his crucifixion. God the Son, Christ, became our sin bearer and we need only acknowledge that sacrifice to be made "justified" in God's eyes and in God's demand for justice for sin.
Think of it this way. Your son does something like breaking a neighbor's window. Yet your son is too young to be made to pay for his crime. Society demands that the parent then act in the son's role and pay for these crimes. Likewise, God the Father allows God the Son to be humankind's representative. Christ paid the price for us all; it is deposited there in the justice bank of God. We need only claim our "share" of that account's balance and present ourselves to God.
In summary, a perfectly just being, God the Father, requires that sin be punished. In the Old Testament, such punishments were the slaughter of an innocent animal, accompanied by prayers of adoration and contrition to God the Father. These lawful rituals drove home the point to mankind that there are consequences for bad behaviors. These lawful rituals also foreshadowed a more significant means of reconciliation before God the Father’s demand for justice.
A perfect being, Christ, willingly went to His death. A perfectly just God the Father, knows that the Son’s death is not justice, for the Son was sinless. Therefore, the perfectly just God the Father credits anyone who will claim the Son’s death as payment for their sins.
2007-04-15 06:37:35 · answer #1 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason why Jesus was not condemned was because there is no sins. When Jesus carries the sins and was hung on the cross, he died with the sins. His life and the sins ended.. the sufferings he undergo (coming to earth, and the tortures) is a repayment. and God raises him up again and undergo resurrection - a new being with no sins. By doing so, he acts as a bridge between us and God and we need to pray through him
2007-04-15 13:30:07 · answer #2 · answered by ^^ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question assumes what theologians call 'penal substitutionary atonement' - the idea that Jesus took upon himself all God's wrath at sinful man. While this idea was popular at the reformation, few Christians now seriously adhere to it because - as an Anglican bishop recently pointed out - it transforms God into a vengeful psycopath. This idea no longer seems to have much resonance with modern-day theologians, who are returning to earlier ideas about the Crucifixion as Christ's ultimate and final triumph over death and hell, and God's entry into human suffering.
2007-04-15 13:27:30 · answer #3 · answered by completelysurroundedbyimbeciles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a difference between paying a debt for someone else and actually owing that money yourself. For example, say that you owed a thousand dollars on your mortgage and you were about to lose your home.
If I step in and pay the bank note, I don't actually owe that money. . .you still do. But in effect, I took on a debt that wasn't mine and paid it in full for you.
That is exactly what Jesus did for us. Because He was sinless, He was the only perfect and acceptable Sacrifice. We couldn't atone for our own sins, so He took them upon Himself and paid our debt to God.
He paid for what we did, and at the same time, He remained blameless. So Hell could not hold Him on the grounds that He Himself had sinned.
2007-04-15 13:33:30 · answer #4 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was without sin. When He took our sin upon the cross, all that sin was forgiven, when it was covered by His blood.
He descended to hell to free all of the righteous and to show Satan and all his demons that they have been defeated forever. He is King of kings and Lord of lords and has the keys of death and hell.
I would suggest you study a King James version Bible and pray to the Lord for revelation.
Grace and peace.
2007-04-15 13:52:34 · answer #5 · answered by Not perfect, just forgiven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Himself was not sinful. He was the Son of God, as well as God Himself. Jesus went to hell and emerged victorious, having gotten the keys to Hell and death from Satan himself:
"For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption. You will show me the path of life: in your presence, fullness of joy; at your right hand, pleasures for evermore...Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am He that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." Psalm 16:10,11; Acts 2:27,31; Revelation 1:17,18. ALSO: I Peter 3:18,19; Matthew 27:52,53.
2007-04-15 13:28:18 · answer #6 · answered by higherlovetx 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there was no excess to the father then. above all, Jesus took the worlds sin on himself but His blood was sinless. Satan knew this and had no hold over Jesus... coz satan knew that Jesus conquered sin with His death on the cross...
2007-04-15 13:22:29 · answer #7 · answered by a girl... 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
From some of the answers above, everything is possible for God. The Bible says only one thing is impossible for God which is to behave like the Devil for He does not have evil in Him.
2007-04-15 13:35:33 · answer #8 · answered by talleymark 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he never sinned. he took the punishment already. It is finished.
2007-04-15 13:21:18 · answer #9 · answered by karen i 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because he repented all of our sin and believed in his almighty father.He didn't turn his back on God .
2007-04-15 13:23:42 · answer #10 · answered by Christal 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋