CHRISIANS: Why Would Jesus Have to Die on the Cross??!?

Question

According to the Christian doctrine, Jesus died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins. The idea here is that every human is born with sins, or that all humans will sin, and therefore it was necessary that someone as pure as Jesus would be the crucified to nullify these sins. The question is; why does anyone have to die for our sins when God, the All-Merciful, could as easily give us forgiveness if we ask for it? Isn't God the one who makes the rules? Why does He have to make someone suffer for our sins or for someone else's sins? Isn't that unjust of Him? According to the Bible the way to redemption could be obtained without the need for sacrifice. The Bible says:

Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Clearly the soul that sins shall die. Clearly that no one shall bear the iniquity (sins) of others. So Jesus cannot bear the sins of others either. If one is righteous then it shall be upon him, and if one commits a sin then it shall be upon him, and not on Jesus. Finally, the way to repentance and forgiveness is by turning from all sins, doing what is right, and keeping the commandments.

Also we see the same message given by Solomon. He says in the book of Ecclesiastes 12:13 "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." This is the whole message, and this is the conclusion of messages. It is that one should fear God, and keep the commandments, and nothing else.

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Answer 1

Easy: He didn't. :D
Makes absolutely NO sense for a person to believe that "GOD"--Who created EVERYONE--was KILLED by those whom HE Himself created.
I don't get it. How does The Creator let the created kill Him?....:|
Yeah, yeah, I've heard it before; Jesus (pbuh) was the SON. Sheesh... Son, God Himself, which one, man? And so what if he resurrected after being crucified? He was STILL "crucified" according to the Bible, right?
Seems a bit tooooo confusing to a person who likes to connect logic and faith--which is possible, by the way.

Peace and blessings of God be upon you all!

Answer 2

He did make the rules and one of the rules is there has to be a blood sacrifice for the for the atonement of sins but since the bloodlines became corrupt and impure because of the curse he had to have a way to have a pure sacrifice which is why he as God manifested himself in part in human form so that he could be our sacrifice and atone for our sins. And only him cause he was without sin.

That is why there is supernatural power to be cleansed of our sin if we have faith and believe in the blood that Jesus shed.

Answer 3

You are forgetting God's justice and holiness. God did set the standards and no one can meet them because all of us sin. Jesus died for our sins so God's justice could be full filled. God being perfectly just and holy must punish sin, if He did not He would not be God because He would not be perfect in every aspect. However, He is perfect and is God. He punished himself through Jesus Christ for our sins. The punishment meant for us he took upon Himself so we could live, that is God's love. You are wrong about the Bible, the spilling of blood was needed for remission of sin, why do you think the Jews sacrificed animals. However, God through Jesus Christ provided the ultimate and final sacrifice for sin.

Answer 4

Jesus substitute right into a guy, a charismatic speaker who examine the Jewish non secular texts and prayed to God to restoration issues. He then proceeded to describe that there have been the form to avert the previous sacrifice and paying homage and as a replace attain God via faith on my own. Like a David Kerush he have committed followers who enjoyed his message and after he substitute into killed via the Romans for attempting to get people to think of, his followers tried to proceed his teachings. Then over the years, the message began to get fractured and distorted so the best (wealthy) non secular leaders had a council in Nicea around 3 hundred advert. They desperate to toss any books that confirmed Jesus human nature and saved something that would desire to be construed as deity and those books, with some added sections grew to alter into the hot testomony. Jesus can't be god, it violates the tenants of the Almighty Yaweh of the Jewish faith, who's who Jesus bowed right down to. Christianity isn't a faith, its a cult equipped on the back of yet another faith and shockingly took carry.

Answer 5

It was either Jesus die on the cross, and resurrect for the sins of the world or each and everyone of us would have to pay the price for every sin we ever commit in life. And our punishment would be worse the what Jesus suffered for us. You still have that choice, you can follow the path to God and heaven or the path away from God and pay for your own sins for evermore.

Answer 6

You are overlookin something very important. Two people in the old testament did not experience physical death. Enoch and Elijah earned direct access to heaven long before there was a Jesus. What they and Jesus knew was the Spirit of truth that has been placed in each of us. This has always been the path of salvation, not death and blood and a cross. Seek the Light within for confirmation of this truth.

Answer 7

good question the answer is simple just read :

"7for if that first [covenant] were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second [covenant].

8For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,

9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking [them] by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, --

10because this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;

11and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them,

12because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' --

13in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old [is] nigh disappearing."

- Hebrews 8:7-13 YLT

Answer 8

Christ didn't ask for it. God the father said he should, and he does make up the rules.
Christ even said at the olive grove " have this cup taken away from me father ". while he was sweating blood and water.
this act from the father through Christ shows how much god the father love us all. he gave his only son.
there was no other person that can defeat Satan. but Christ himself.
the the big Question is ......... who can defeat the fallen angle that god the father created?

Answer 9

ahhh the teachings tell us original sin is the sin imposed on us by gods anger with adam and eve , their punishment forever cast out of eden , the man would forever lust after the woman , she got handed an even more sever punish ment her monthy period and painful childbirth , years later god wanting toforgive man could not do so because of the first punishment , so he sent his son to save us his sons death would once again bring the abilty to forgive sin and to reopen the gates of heaven

Answer 10

Death for our sins is just. It is what we deserve so God is just and merciful. He is just because we suffer and die because of our sins but, he is merciful because he sent his son who did not deserve to die because he is perfect in every way, to marry us and then because in a marriage the two become one flesh, he dies because of our sins too but because of the two becoming the same flesh he rose from the death to eternal life and so we get to also being that we are married to him (his Church that is)