one thing i dont get about christianity, and the crucifixion....?

Question

why did jesus have to die, or like why did god send jesus down to die for us, i know the general answers, like he died for our sins, but how does dying on a cross by roman soldiers amend us of our sins? never got it

Answer 1

Because God had set up the sacrificial system right at the beginnig with Adam & Eve with the killing of the first Lamb. and followed it all the way through until the death of Christ. And would yu believe for 70 years after the death the sacrificial system no longer worked (which is one of the reasons why the Jews no longer practice it today)
The Crucifixtion, was one way of proving God's ability to forcast accuratley the future long before it happened & when it did, for those who were able to take the blinders off, saw how God chose to do this.
Christ was tortured and basically nearly beaten to death so that by the time he got to Golgotha, he was basically on the verge of death. God wrote in Isaiah , Jeramiah, Psalms, and many others, just what damage Christ would have, the type of death, he would suffer, the fact that he would not have a bone broken ( the other two thieves were blugedeon to death after spending all day on the cross) & peirced after he had died just to prove he had, It was a tortureous way to die (Romans were very good at torture).
The amending our sins, God is perfect, and if in our present sinful state we appraoched God, we would be Killed Instantly, so to become aprroachable, a middle man was needed. someone that was of Heaven but had human tendancies, so the Gap could be breached. Christ was sinless as a human, so that by dying & rising again he broke all the breaches & covered us with His blood so that ALL could be saved (not just 1 or 2) so now covered with the Blood of the Lamb (Christ) we can approach once again God.
I have a quote that was given to me by a friend many years ago when I first started work and it says
"And I asked Jesus
'How much do you Love me?'
and Jesus replied
'this much-'
and He stretched out His arms and died!"
So I see the cross as a way of demonstrating a huge love Just my view mind, and as to who wrot the quote, your guess is as good as mine.

Answer 2

Well, I am a Muslim and we believe that Jesus was a Prophet of God, but we don't believe that he was the son of God or that he died for our sins. You're right; it doesn't make sense. I was a born into a Baptist family and converted to Islam about 4 years ago. We believe in the immaculate conception of Jesus and we believe that Jesus will return and lead mankind into the one true religion of God, worshipping only God. We do not believe in original sin or that people are born sinners. We believe that each and every person is accountable for their own sins, and that Judgement Day is the day when all wrongs will be made right and children will not suffer because of the sins of their parents. Email me and I'll tell you more. The entire concept of the trinity does not make sense and was not even a part of Christianity until 300 years after the death of Christ when Constantine of Constantinople incorporated many pagan beliefs (including the concept of a trinity, Christmas, and Easter) into Christianity and the people were forced to believe this or be put to death. Very similar to the way that 90% of the Africans who were captured and brought here to be slaves were Muslim and forced into Christianity. These are historical facts. Look it up. Email me for more info. Teena

Answer 3

When we sin, the sin has consequences that God warned us about. It's like we tell a child not to touch the stove because it is hot and it will burn you and they do it anyway. Well the Lord is Just with his judgments and he is also merciful. He does not like to see us suffer and die when we want to be good and abide by his commands so he sent his son to marry us because he has said that in marriage the two becomes one flesh. This means that because we sin and suffer and die then Jesus because we are one flesh due to the marriage must suffer and die a criminals death too --- that's the justice part. Now, we are one flesh with Jesus so Jesus was sinless so even though he died, he rises from the dead because he had no sin and because we again are one in flesh with Jesus through the marriage we rise again after death. The thing is we have to believe in him and actually marry him in the baptismal ceremony where we become part of his Church (his bride). Does this explain it any better? This is why the marriage ceremony between a man and a woman is so special and sacred.

Answer 4

You are speaking of the satisfaction theory, as opposed to the earlier ransom theory. If you read the Gospels and study their history you will find that the common theme is that Jesus died fighting for freedom of the common man from the oppressive religious regimes of the day. Pauls writings are talking about a spiritual christ, a totally different theme to the Gospels which personify christ in the man Jesus, Paul is not specifically focussing on christ as a person, he is talking about the Christ within. Another theory will evolve over the next thousand years as people become wiser and more knowledgable of the scriptures.

Here if you want unbiased a non-religiously contaminated knowledge on the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_(Satisfaction_view)

Answer 5

It is explained in a parable. There was a young man who incurred a debt that he was sure he could pay. However when the time came for the debt to be repaid he had not the means. Although he asked for mercy his creditor would not forgive the debt because justice would not be served. In order to serve both justice and mercy someone else who had the means would have to intercede in behalf of the debtor. He had a friend, who although he thought the debtor had been foolish to incur the debt in the first place, had the means and said that if he would except him as his creditor he would pay the debt and would allow the debtor to pay as he could. This way both mercy and justice could be served.

When we come to the end of this life we will be called to account for our sins. Jesus not only died on the cross, but also suffered in the garden to the point that He bled from every pore. He was able to survive that only because He had "the means" or in other words - He was the literal son of God. If we accept Him as our creditor (savior) justice will be served and He will extend to us His mercy in that we will not have to suffer as He did for our sins.

Answer 6

Adam created sinless died in sin and spread sin to all mankind.


Jesus created sinless died sinless even on the torture stake and gave salvation to all repentant mankind.

Jesus Christ's selfless death was the ransom price for Adam's selfish error.

It gave humans an opportunity to regain what Adam had selfishly lost us through his ungrateful disobedience.


Romans 5:12
That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned.

The Bible calls Jesus the last Adam (Adam was created perfect just like Jesus also)

1 Corinthians 15:45 
It is even so written: “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Answer 7

In the OT the Israelites sacrificed animals yearly to "atone for their sins", Jesus came once to forever save us- how- because God said there can be no forgiveness of sin without shedding of blood. And so He sent "the perfect lamb of God' to be our atoning sacrifice. He died the death that we should have died.

Answer 8

Because He was the one true person that did not deserve it. If he had been a regular guy he would have been dying for his own sins. Instead he voluntarily died in our place.
Why a cross? I have no idea other than it made for a very public execution that was prophisied. (read psalm 22)

Answer 9

Adam and Eve were not created to live and die. Genesis makes no mention of death...Until they disobeyed.. And the 'price' of this disobedience was death. We have inherited that fault. to eventually die. [Genesis 2; 16,17]
But it was not in God's original plan.
God's solution, legally, to remove from us the 'penalty' of death, was to supply to us his own son, to act as a 'ransom' sacrifice, to 'buy' back for us the right to again live without death.
Jesus has paid that price.
The benefit will occur when wickedness is done away with.
The benefit is not for those that will not obey.

Answer 10

Jehovah is a lover of justice.

Sin entered the human race through one perfect man, Adam. So in order to correct this a price had to be paid.

A perfect man had to be killed as a ransom. because Adam was perfect when he sinned. So because sin entered the human race through one man, then sin can be bought back through one man.