Jesus dying is not much of a sacrifice is it?

Question

What did he sacrifice? His life? Nope...he's apparently still alive. How is it a sacrifice if you get snapped right back to life? The only thing that was a sacrifice was the pain and many people have endured greater pain. Why is their sacrifice not more important?

Answer 1

I've noticed you have asked several questions today concerning God and Christianty yet you say you do not believe. I think you are on the verge of conversion and that is what has sparked your interest in this matter. I really recommend you read the Bible to really search the matter in depth. God bless you!

Answer 2

Well he came to a world without any medicine, a world with lots of persecution, and a government that would kill anyone who was outside of what they saw as good. If anyone spoke of something different then their (the governments) beliefs the person would be arrested at the very least but because of the degree of difference in what Jesus said they assumed he was blasphemous. If u saw someone claiming to be God today, I'm pretty sure you'd call them crazy unless they could really prove it. Anyways he came into a world with disease and really a world with more problems than our world today. Also he was brutally tortured and then eventually was crucified then stabbed in the side with a spear to finish him off. He had to endure the loss of close friends just like those of us do today. So despite the fact that he came back to life 3 days later it would b unbelievably hard to endure a punishment like that even though u know you would come back to life 3 days later. Think about it, would you get whipped to the point of having little to no skin left on your back? Would you continue after that and carry a cross to a hill and getting beaten as you go because you are struggling to carry the cross, then get to the top of the hill to get crucified? I doubt many people, if anyway would say that they would endure something so painful no matter the gain from it. So I think that yes, he did sacrifice. Also if anyone reading this is a caring person they would know how horrible it feels to see someone suffering that they care about and to see someone who is doing something that is hurting them and you know that you can't change it even though you want to so desperately. Jesus, if what has been said in the Bible is true, cared about EVERYONE above and beyond any human being to live on this Earth to date. If that is the case, the sadness he felt towards the people of the world was very painful emotionally.

Answer 3

It was a sacrifice because he was free of sin, and took the sin of the world, that means that HE, the only perfect and flawless being to ever walk the earth, took ALL the sins of EVERY human being on himself. The weight of that alone would be burdensome enough. Not only that, but he, Lord of the universe, was undeservingly beaten and literally torn apart, nailed to a tree, and do you know the reason they tied a rope around their waste once they were on the cross? not so they wouldnt fall, but so they could breath, but only enough so it was painful. you tell me that thats not a sacrifice. you tell me that you would do that for someone who spits in your face. you tell me that you would do the same thing for the person pounding the nail through your hands, and tell me that its not a sacrifice. Tell me that its not a sacrifice when he could have at any moment had himself freed from the cross and the earth destroyed. but NO he chose to stay up there for ME, for You, yet you still choose to reject him, even though hes still to this day loving you so much you cant even fathom it. Tell me thats not a great sacrifice.

Answer 4

open your eyes mate,

The death of Jesus is the only true sacrifice for he loved us so much that he came to this world to free the slaves (people that where possed by the devil), Heal the sick, give life to use who where banished to go to hell.

He didn't sin even though he had the same weakness as you and me, He didn't hurt no one even though they spit on him, slapt him and did many things to him (when he could of just crushed all of them with one finger). But yet without even sining once, without killing anyone he died in the cross and suffered the pain just so that you and me could have the gift of life (eternal life).

It was a sacrifice bacause it was holly blood that was killed,
blood that new no sin
for YOU the one that steals, the one that lais, the one that killes people with what you say and what you think.
You should of been the one being crucified, but yet he took your place so that you would have a chance of having eternal life.

it is your choice if you want it or not.

He still live for we (the ones that follow his word) shall also live

Answer 5

Givng one's life for all man kind is a huge sacrifice. He gave up His throne in heaven to become human. He was turned out by the people of his hometown, eventually was tortured and killed. He was dead for 3 days in the tomb. The only way to save all believers from death was to die for them and defeat the power of sin, death and satan.
Until this time, people had to give sacrifices in the temple, they had to follow all kinds of laws and rules. The amazing sacrifice is that death no longer has any power over us and we have nothing to fear,because Jese made that last and final sacrifice of His perfect life.
Many people have endured pain and death. But they were not perfect. They were not the Son of God, they were just regular humans. No person born of two human parents can say to God "I will give myself to save their souls" Only Jesus can do that as the ne who is "begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father by Who all things were made" People on earth may die for a cause but no one but Jesus could have died for all persons souls because He was God's one perfect Son.

Answer 6

I completely agree. It wasn't much of a sacrifice when he came back to life three days later. It was more of a mini-vacation from life.
A true sacrifice comes from giving up something for real, not just pretending.

Answer 7

Ahhh. You might want to lay of the crack first off. And then go to your Priest and ask for forgiveness.
Of course he's alive. He is the son of God, so he Gods power, do you ever read the New testament? Because its all right in there, but then again, you probably left school in kindergraden, and never learned how to read so many big words. Your favorite book is See Spot run.
If you are any kind of Christian then you shouldn't even ask such a stupid question.

Answer 8

Good analogy......

The point is.... He feared what was coming and attained it by submission through pain of death......

and what sadistic creatures those Romans were..... Who among us knowing that death was tomorrow in the wee hours of the am would come while all were sleeping.... would go so bravely into the night with those strangers....?

Yet, sacrifice was!

However, ironic as it may seem..... There is no death when life succeeds it!!!........

So why wear crosses to remind us of death? when there is life that did not stay there!


your sister,
Ginger

Answer 9

What did he sacrifice? His life was the sacrifice, and yes he suffered terribly. You forget that he did not only suffer Crucifixion, he suffered the weight of all sin everywhere and always on him at once. Since he was sinless himself that would have been excruciating. Yes he is alive now, he is risen that we too may be risen. As we say in the Catholic Church; "Dying you destroyed our death, rising you restored our life." Now please, for your own good, do not mock the Savior.

Answer 10

First of all not to be rude but do you honestly believe that GOD had to endure any of that? Absolutely NOT ! But HE did it for us because we are idiots that continually make idiotic mistakes. He could have simply said OH Well,Let the retards spend eternity in hell I do not wish to suffer. See HE is truly a Loving GOD. PRAISE JESUS!!!