Why did god have to kill his son to absolve us of our sins? Couldn't he of just done it? Whats that all about?

Answer 1

To show you exactly how much he loves you. There's no greater love than His. To give his only son for you.

Answer 2

God did not necessarily kill his son.
The church needed a better gimick than just their god versus their satan. God was already a hero god by overcoming the 'darkness', but the church needed more controle. Exploiting the wrath of god was just not enough anymor to keep the people in check. So they came up with embellishing the life of a great man named Jesus. The took away the history of most of his life, highlighted some miracles, accentuated his coven (13 doeth a coven make), redefined the concept of virgin, covered up the premarital sex of Mary and Joseph, put her in place of the goddess and her son in the place of the god, which is a popular story in most cycles, and then made all the people illiterate in the dark ages so the church could controle and manipulate with this new story of a savior/ hero of the people. The wrath of god was starting to fail the church, so the Jesus mythos were sold to the people as the softer side of god because he loved the people soooo much (Jn. 3:16), backed by Paul's books which are not gospel, just letters from a man with controle issues.
That is why we are sold the belief first thing when we are enducted into the cult of the church through the use of Jn. 3:16.
Just my opinion though... with a lot of studying of the bible and other histories.

Answer 3

The answer is because of an awesome love, God the Father did not kill His Son but had to watch as Jesus willingly laid down His life for us and that must have cost the Father a lot.
Because of the fall of mankind it could only be redeemed by a man without sin and as that is plain impossible, God the Son had to come down to earth as one of us and by being one like us in all ways but sin He could redeem the human race.
Before the sacrifice of Christ on the cross we were all enemies of God and in direct opposition to His holy will and nature, now that Christ has died and risen and ascended into Heaven He has broken this `curse` of sin and rebellion of man and so by believing in and living the Gospel message we are made children of God and heirs to the kingdom of Heaven, but unless we turn away from our former self and become re-made in Christ so to speak then salvation will not be ours at all.

Answer 4

The doctrine is called the Paschal Mystery. No one can really give you a sensible answer to your question. I have grappled with this mystery for many years and I must admit I have not found a logical answer. Perhaps, that's the reason why it is called a mystery. We will never know why until we see God face to face.

The Paschal mystery has two aspects, first, our liberation from sin (by Christ's death) and second, our receiving new life (by his Resurrection). This new life (justification) is victory over death and a new participation in grace. After the Resurrection, Jesus called us brothers: "Go and tell my brethren" (Mt 28:10). We are not brothers by nature but by adoptive grace.

The Risen Christ is the source of our own future resurrection. "In Christ all shall be made alive" (1 Cor 15:22). We have been swept up in Christ and "have tasted... the powers of the age to come" (Heb 6:5). "We live no longer for ourselves but for him" (2 Cor 5:15).

Here is another explanation on the same subject from Wiki.

The Paschal Mystery refers to the suffering, death, Resurrection, and Glorification of Jesus Christ. People of Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian faiths celebrate this mystery in the sacrament of the Eucharist. The Eucharist represents the Christ's body and makes present the Paschal Mystery. It is shown to be the climax of Mark's Gospel. Christians believe this mystery to show God's love to his people, representing Jesus' suffering resulting in eternal life.

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 5

My friend, I love your question...have a star!!

I will try answer, but please bare with me...

God spoke to Adam and said "the day you eat from the tree, you shall surely die"...ie, the price of sin is eternal death. Given that Adam, Eve and the all their decendants (inluding us) have sinned, then in God's justice and fairness, we should die.

But just as much God is Just and Fair, but He is also eternally loving for us and did not want us to die either. So the dilemah still stands before Him...someone must die, but He does not want us to pay that price and wants to give us a second chance at life.

So He sheds His own blood on the Cross and pays the price for us. That is because in Him we kill our sins, and with His ressurrection we ressurect in the last day to live eternally with Him.

Why did He send His son? Why not the Father or the Holy Spirit?
Well...because the Son is the Son of the Father by Deity, He is equal to God and is in fact God...so that was The price is paid by God when He dies...and by taking on a fleshly form like us, He unites us to Him... and makes us all sons of God by adoption...(dont get confused, we are not equal to God by deity...but by adoption).

I hope this help this helps...God bless!

Answer 6

Because God is righteous and all sin has to be punished. We put criminals in jail because we know that it's the right thing to do. Bad things have to be paid for. If we know that, how much more does God know that. Just as we know that letting murderers go free is immoral, God knows that letting our sin go unpunished is immoral. He was just loving enough to take the punishment upon himself.

Answer 7

no longer each sin is both undesirable in God's eyes; some warranted the shortcoming of existence penalty, which incorporates homicide. some were punished by technique of banishment or exile, others by technique of no longer with the flexibility to enter the temple grounds for a distinct era of time, others by technique of the sacrifice of an animal.

Answer 8

It was the only way to get our attention away from believing human doctrine and turn to the divine. Without Christ and Jesus' proof, we would have no escape from human errors, which bind us to a reality that was not made by God.

Answer 9

To show what great sacrifice it was. Something we could all relate to having a hard time with so that we would know how much he loves us.

Answer 10

Jesus didn't die to absolve us of our sins to God, it wasn't for God that He had to die. It was for us.

We could have prevented it, but we didn't, we are sinners to the core :)