Why did God send God to die for the sins of God's creations?

Question

Couldn't he just say "sin-be-gone" and there would be no need for that unsavory Jesus episode, considering God is the all-powerful creator?

Or is God just an emo masochist, who also turned out to be a sadist (enter: hell, stage left).

M: why did he send his son? If he is God, can't he make it happen without killing off his kids?

Or maybe Christians want to use both fire and brimstone as well as the "pity" factor? Pity Jesus, fear hell, worked out nice didn't it?

Answer 1

because death and violence gives him his power.

Answer 2

As you can tell, from the way you've asked your question, it just doesn't make any sense. Many bible thumping people are gonna get angry as heck about your question and call you an idiot an such but don't listen to them. They live their lives based on fear of hell,not love of "God", "One Love" or whatever you want to call your higher power. I just don't understand why people have to believe in "God" to be compassionate. Then again it seems that a lot of religious people like to have wars. To get back to your question though, a Catholic or Christian would tell you Jesus being God, part of the Holy Trinity, died for people's sins so they could enter the kingdom of God-heaven. God gave people free will, then Eve ate the apple and had Adam eat the apple and then the brothers were killing each other, and on and on it goes. So everybody was going to hell or purgatory until Jesus was crucified, and he was crucified because "it was written" and he had to fulfill the scriptures, die that way, so our sins could be forgiven. The way I see it, Jesus just wanted us to chill out, love each other, not fight & love a higher spirit of consciousness. Most of this other stuff is just mind control, or government control of the people. Religion keeps people living 'inbetween the lines" a lot more than laws do. Everybody is different, everyone should have their own understanding of God. People who do not question God or Religions never truly get to know the inner peace they could have and that's why they get so mad when anybody asks a question like yours. Love yourself and love other people as yourself. Know that people that do things, that seem awful or evil, just don't know any better, they are hurt. Peace be with you. ONE LOVE

Answer 3

As society evolves, so does our need for wisdom and enlightenment. Jesus was sent as a teacher of the people......someone to teach the "do unto others" lesson that nobody had learned up until then. Was the whole thing planned from the beginning, or was God hoping for the best when he sent his son as a teacher? I don't know, but it sure seems like humanity still has a long way to go to get to the "live and let live" stage.

Answer 4

There are two reasons why God sent Jesus to die for our sins.

The first was actually quite simple in nature. It was in order to fulfill the prophecy of the prophets of the Old Testament. Amongst them is Isiah.

The second reason was to bring an end to the old covenant. In the Old Testament, the Israelites would have to make animal and crop sacrifices based on the sins that they had done. When Christ died, the perfect Lamb, his blood covered ALL of the world's sins. This brought an end to the sacrifice of animals.

This also opened the door for Gentiles (you and I) to accept Christ as Lord and Savior. With this comes the gift of eternal life and the salvation from going to Hell, when you die.

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Answer 5

I think your question in its original form is the clearest. God sent God to die for the sins of God's creations simply to show them how it's done. So many Christians get hung up on a transactional point of view. ("Wow, Jesus paid for our tickets! Now we get into the circus for free!") What he was really doing was providing an example. No, we didn't "deserve" it, but Jesus sacrificed his life for our sake anyway.

Romans 5:6-8 describes the situation fairly well: "You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. "

Death is an extreme example, but Jesus was making sure the message got across. People, even "unworthy" people, are worthwhile. One should not be afraid or reluctant to sacrifice one's time, attention and compassion for other people, even if they hamper your own plans.

I can't say for sure which people actually picked up on that message.

Answer 6

We know that the first sin resulted in Adam's total rejection of God, and his "throwing in" with Satan, against God.

Adam even went so far as to transfer dominion of the whole earth, which God had earlier given him, over to Satan.

And since Adam enjoyed free will, God permitted him to make these choices, and to suffer the eternal consequences.

Once all this was done, Satan turned on Adam, and made a slave of him and his descendents, because, as everyone knows, all the offspring of a slave automatically belong to the master.

This presented a serious problem, because man had no ability to overcome the supernatural dominion that Satan now exercised over him.

Furthermore, God was under no obligation to provide his supernatural graces to his enemies.

Deprived of God's grace, Eden soon disappeared, Adam and Eve began to age, suffer, and die, and the world became an increasingly more hostile and forbidding place.

Mankind lived under constant threat from Satan, who was given the power of death over them, according to their free will choice, and according to God's perfect justice.

But this is not what God had in mind when he created man, so God promised to eventually send a redeemer to destroy Satan's evil dominion, forgive sins, defeat death, and restore all things.

That is exactly what Jesus did.

And the only reason Jesus could do it, when no other human ever could, was because Jesus was never "stained" by sin ... and Satan had no power at all, over one without sin.

Under God's most basic law, one without sin is not liable to die. (This was the flip-side of the same law that Adam broke, when he sinned.)

Jesus permitted Satan and his minions, the Jews and the Romans, to unjustly put him to death, knowing full well that this was the only way Satan's evil dominion could be legally destroyed, as no one, not even the devil, had the authority to take the life of a sinless man, let alone the only son of God.

Once Jesus died, Satan was judged for his great sin, stripped of all that he had earlier gained from Adam's fall, and left destitute.

Jesus was raised from the dead and appointed the new head of all mankind. God was now more than willing to forgive man's sins, and our redemption was truly at hand.

Now, anyone who rejects Satan and swears faithful allegiance to Jesus (typically through baptism) is able to have their sins forgiven, become a living temple of the Holy Spirit, and among other things, also become a member of God's own family.

The church carries on Christ's great work of redemption in the world today.

Answer 7

1. Ironic plot twist,
2. You really don't get the point do you? It was a test of faith. Haven't you ever listened to that song "What if God was one of us?"

The point is that people "created" God, not the other way around. Then when the "real" God sent His representitive the people who had created the false image of God destroyed the real one.

Now remember, the Romans who destroyed the "false God" (Jesus) formed the religion of "Chrisitianity" around the figure post mortem.

Isn't that irony? The people who did not believe in Christ formed the Christian religion.

So WHY did God do it?

To get the point across that "religious" people wouldn't recognize God if he fell on their heads.

Answer 8

It is great thought though ;

Next thing is, maybe that God has more than 1 son, so He does not mind to loose one of them.

But of course the son is said, he is now sit next to his father;
I am not trying to be rude though, just try to analyse the logic behind it,

We are born with brain to think, not just to follow ; otherwise might as well be a duck .

Myself, liked to think and believe that there is an Almighty.
And that my Almighty is so Great Great Great in all and any aspect, that I can not describe .

I also wished that I would never see with my eyes or visualize my God, so I can be so free in mind .

Answer 9

JESUS gave His life for us. If He didn't die and rise on the the third, Well we all would be going to Hell. JESUS died on the cross for our Sins, He the lamp of GOD. So if you give your life to Him right now your sins will be forgiven and you will have a home in heaven with our Father.

Answer 10

Good Q, I don't know the answer.

The answer that seems closest to truth, right now, for me is this: If we couldn't sin we would not be individuals, we wouldn't really have choices - God could have made us exactly how he wanted us and took away the possibility of us 'sinning' - but if we had no real choice, we wouldn't be truly alive and we certainly wouldn't be free. We would have no choice but to love/obey God (without questioning him ever) and that doesn't seem right. If we could not sin, we wouldn't be who we are.

Answer 11

God sent his only son to die to pay for the earths sin because it is kinda like a sacrafice like in the old testimate people sacraficed bulls for God to forgive their sins so God sent Jesus like the ultimate sacrafice to forgive humanitys sin.