I mean, you believe he was divine and all...not really much of a sacrifice. Humans have certainly been beaten to death, crucified, etc...(read some of the ways the Inquisition killed people....terrible stuff).
Plus, you claim Jesus knew what was gonna happen. Again, not much of a sacrifice.
The soldier who throws himself on a grenade to save his friends, that's a sacrifice. He knows he's not going to be alive again in 3 days. He knows it's forever, yet he does it anyway.
That's a real sacrifice.
2007-04-30 03:36:49 · 16 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
mortgagegirl - Of course I would. Most people would give up their lives to save a family member, how much more would they be willing if you told them their death could save millions?
2007-04-30 03:45:04 · update #1
Scott B. - No it doesn't. There are many people who have willingly gone to horrible deaths for the benefit of somene else.
Sorry.
2007-04-30 03:46:45 · update #2
I agree, that's like putting DOOM on godmode and bragging that you beat the game in one life.
2007-04-30 03:40:52 · answer #1 · answered by PoseidenNeptuneReturns 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
i believe that what made Jesus' death such a sacrifice is that after living forever without a drop of sin, He bore the sin of every single person who would ever live. God can't have company with sin, so in the three hours during Jesus' death, when the world went dark, God had to turn his back on His Son. some say that Jesus actually died of a broken heart ... in other words his heart just collapsed from the trauma of the situation.
2007-04-30 11:22:19 · answer #2 · answered by RuBy StReAmS 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets see you get crucified for a crime you did not commit. While you are dying you think about all the people like those who call you Gay, a Fake, and adulter, a bastard child of an adulterous relationship...
Then you experience Hell. What makes Hell Hell? Eternal separation from God.
How many times have you heard the phrase, "I did not know what I had until I lost it"?
In the first few seconds you are out of the presence of God, you will know exactly what that phrase means.
Your questions are really pathetic attempts for useless attention.
So what is your real deal? Do you understand your need?
2007-04-30 11:02:21 · answer #3 · answered by realchurchhistorian 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes I understand what you are saying. I am a US soldier also. I have seen people die in war and thank God I have been lucy to be alive. Those guys did indeed pay a high cost, sacrifice if you will. The one fact in the matter about Jesus is that he was perfect, sinless and 100% good. He did die a real physical death on the cross. Yes He knew he was gonna arise from the grave. Jesus knew this before the world was even created. The Bible says so. Jesus was the perfect, sinless lamb without spot and that enabled him to be the only acceptable sacrifice to God, to redeem us of our sins.
2007-04-30 10:43:45 · answer #4 · answered by mxcardinal 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jesus' sacrifice was the greatest sacrifice ever made. He knew no sin. He was God in the flesh who didn't have to leave the splender of Heaven, but he did to pay for sin He didn't commit and pay a debt He didn't owe just so we wouldn't have to die and got to Hell. He did all this for a world who despises Him and really wants nothing to do with Him. That's how much He loved us. Would you give your little boy or girl for a murderer or a child molestor to live? Probably not. We love Him because He first loved us.
2007-04-30 11:02:00 · answer #5 · answered by takako_sempai 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's easy to say that when you have never made anywhere near that type of sacrifice. His death was nothing short of torture and knowing it was going to happen like that was far worse than not knowing. A split second decision compared to agonizing over what would be a brutal painful death that you could prevent if you wanted to? It just proves the absolute idiocy of your question.
2007-04-30 10:43:25 · answer #6 · answered by Scott B 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Besides, Jesus wasn't even the first to die for our sins. Mithras did the same thing 500 years before the invention of the bible. So not only wasn't it a sacrifice, it wasn't even original!
To mortgage: who wouldn't die, come back to life 3 days later, and know the whole world would keep worshipping them hundreds of years later? It's not that big of a deal.
2007-04-30 10:40:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
You shouldn't judge until you've walked in his shoes. How do you know what happened to him? How do you know what he felt when he was being tortured? I suppose nail being driven through your skin and bones is no biggie for you....do you know what it feels like to have everyone turn against you? No allies? Do you know what it feels like to be put to a slow death in front of your mother? Shame on you. You sound pretty smug, why don't you ask Jesus himself on judgement day?
2007-04-30 10:48:45 · answer #8 · answered by betrayed 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He got slung up on the cross for chosing a women (a mere animal to the religious mans mind) instead of a man, and the greatest material church there could ever be.
2007-04-30 10:43:17 · answer #9 · answered by Lukusmcain// 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If you were immortal then dying would be like losing a fingernail. Big deal. A mythological immortal 'dies' and comes right back in better shape. I would do it. Who wouldn't? His 'sacrifice' was nothing, especially if he was an immortal god.
2007-04-30 11:11:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've often expressed the same thing and it wasn't a well recieved statement. :O...I remember a majority of people looking at me like that.
Also, if you are the son og God, in all reality you can take away the pain brought on by yourself and just fake it.
2007-04-30 10:42:26 · answer #11 · answered by Sheriff of R&S 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋