I mean, dying on the cross is also a nasty business, but come on, murdering your own son for God?!
Wasn't that good enough for God to forgive us for the original sin? Wasn't that enough proof that some humans truly regret the sin of our ancestors and wish to turn back to God?
2007-05-11 07:00:32 · 27 answers · asked by Trillian, Moon Daisy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know that he doesn't kill him, but that's so irrelevant in the light of the fact that he REALLY would have killed him...
But if God had let him fulfill the sacrifice, would that have been enough to save us? I suspect that no.
2007-05-11 07:06:42 · update #1
the poor son was not sinless... it had to take a sinless one..
2007-05-11 07:04:51 · answer #1 · answered by Redeemed 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not, that wouldn't fulfill the teachings of Moses. You said it yourself when saying "some people". Jesus is the son of God which makes it the ultimate sacrifice. He didn't kill His son, Jesus knowingly came to this earth so he would die for each and every one us so that would have life and life more abundantly. At anytime while he was on that cross he could have called millions of angles to come to the rescue, but He's the one that came to the rescue 2000 years ago when did that for us.
God called Abraham to sacrifice his son just a test of faith. Not to cleanse us of all of our sins. He has a purpose and we as his creation have no right to second guess or offer alternate options for the Lord OUR God. He's in control and his will will be done. That's inevitable.
2007-05-11 07:18:40 · answer #2 · answered by metallicat89 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is perfect and therefore required a perfect sacrifice to forgive us of our sins. Christ was the perfect Lamb - so that through Him we may be forgiven for all the sins we have committed or are ever going to commit. Abraham and Isaac were pictures of the Father and the Son. Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac to God, just as God sacrificed Jesus to the world so that we may be free of sin. Remember, Abraham did not have to sacrifice Isaac, but God did sacrifice Christ.
God bless.
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2007-05-11 07:06:01 · answer #3 · answered by bwtur88 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For a couple reasons.
First, Abraham didn't end up sascraficing his son. An angel told him to stop right before he was going to do it. It was test to prove how faithful Abraham was. And It wasn't a matter of proving anything to God about the human race, it was the fact that we are all sinners and needed the "Perfect Sacrafice". Abraham was a sinner like every other human to ever walk the face of the earth. Jesus is the only one that could fullfill the ultimate sacrafice because he is perfect. To be able to enter the presence of God after we die we need to be perfect beings. Seeing as how that is not possible we needed a perfect sacrafice. So because God himself is the ultimate, perfect being he had to come down (as Jesus) and be the one and only perfect sacrafice.
2007-05-11 07:13:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Abraham's son was never meant to be the ultimate sacrifice. When God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son, it was the testing of Abraham's faith that was at issue. Because Abraham trusted God enough to offer the child as a sacrifice, God accounted it unto him as good and made Abraham's seed His chosen people--not because they were from the House of Judah, but because Abraham trusted God.
When you talk about the sin of our ancestors, where does that fit in? Abraham's display of faith wasn't about any original sin; it was about trusting God.
2007-05-11 07:12:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham's intended sacrifice had nothing to do with saving us from our sins. That was the job of Jesus. God was just testing Abraham to the brink of such a huge sacrifice. He never intended to let him go through with it.
Turning back to God doesn't mean living with the mindsets and social customs of the biblical times. It means following the word of God in our modern society with modern mindsets, and a whole LOT more people.
2007-05-11 07:08:41 · answer #6 · answered by kj 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaac was not actually sacrificed, the Angel of the Lord stopped him at the last minute. It was an act that demonstrated Abraham's faith in God, as the New Testament says that Abraham believed God would revive Isaac from the dead and give him back to him. It also says that Abraham had faith and that his faith was counted for him as righteousness. Abraham's faith was ultimately in the one to whom his symbolic act pointed, and that faith plus true sorrow and turning away from sin (repentance) is what Biblical forgiveness is based on.
2007-05-11 07:11:49 · answer #7 · answered by AHA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What sins? What doctrine?
You cant really believe that.
Some "books" are writen in parables, metaphores, mores, examples, recommendations, simili, proverbs, euphemisms, aphorisms ....this includes all religious books.
So that people may learn right from wrong but it doesnt mean you have to take it all literally.
One can learn a lot from Aesop's fables too, he wrote very good stories one can draw a lot of wisdom from, along with many other writers through the ages.
Be and do good that is all.
Regards.
2007-05-11 07:22:06 · answer #8 · answered by JusticeToAll 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham didn't sacrifice his son. God was testing him. He was willing to do it, but when he went to do it God told him not to and provided a ram.
the sacrifice to forgive us of our sins had to be perfect and blameless and since everyone except Jesus was/is born with sin. Isaac would not have worked anyway.
2007-05-11 07:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by sarah_a04 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the only case in the Bible (other than Jesus) of human sacrifice. God obviously never intended Abraham to kill Issac, it was a test of faith for Abraham. Who was more important, his son, or God?
2007-05-11 07:03:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Neither Abraham nor Issac were pure enough for sacrafice
in the degree that was required....only the Son of God
could fill that order!
2007-05-18 18:20:10 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋