Jesus got up after being dead three days, and started walking around like nothing ever happened?

Question

Then he rose into the sky and became a god?

Question: So then what was the big sacrifice?
If he knew ahead of time he was going to accomplish that; and, in effect, get the last laugh -- what was the big sacrifice?

C'mon church people, figure that one out.

Answer 1

True.
The sacrifice is when you step in front of a bus to save someone else, you don't know what's gonna happen when you die.
Knowing you are "god" and will go to heaven and have people worship you forever (and torture those that don't) doesn't really carry much sacrifice.
Good point.

Answer 2

You have the story wrong. Jesus didn't become God after the resurrection...he was always God. 1 - yes, there are many historians and writers who have gone over this. The earliest Gospel which is Mark's is considered to have been written about 60-70AD somewhere. The others are a little later...with Luke's being the youngest I think. The accounts of the resurrection were almost immediate. When the women went to the tomb, their first thought was that the body of Christ had been taken and moved. The Hebrew priests immediately started a story that the diciples of Jesus had stolen his body. If you look through the early historical documents (which include the Gospels because they are considered to be historically accurate) you will notice that no one ever denies that the tomb was not empty. There are different explanations for why...but no one ever says...his body is stil there, or that he's in a different grave, or even that he was moved on purpose. If he had been stolen by his disciples and then they made up the whole story of the resurrection...other things that happened just don't make sense. First, they would have paid homage to the grave they moved him to at some point. Someone would have known. Also, the Apostles died brutal and horrible deaths..for what? A lie? I hardly think so. Another thing to consider is that the tomb was right there...for all to inspect and go see. Yet, in Jerusalem during those first few years over 5000 converts became Christians...hearing the story, seeing the tomb and believing. Over 3 converts a day...just in Jerusalem. St. Paul writes that there were over 500 witnesses to the resurrection...people who saw Jesus after he died. When he was writing this he said some were still alive. That's just a few things I can think of off the top of my head. There are many, many more. 2 - All I can say is it's not a joke. Why would you assume it is when you have the proof of many intelligent people who do believe. Common sense tells us that if all these people believe then there must be something to it. We have a few non-religious historical documents that mention Jesus and some that tell us about early Christianity. These also help to paint a picture of early times.

Answer 3

What is the big sacrifice? Did you not know that he was tortured? Do you have any idea how painful it was for him to be treated like that? To be hated? Jesus was perfect, and every pain and torture inflicted on him was worse than you can imagine. But he did all this just for us, to rid us of our sins. Jesus did this even though he had the power to do anything. Does this not make you understand why this was such a great sacrifice? And you know what is even greater? He still would have done it even if there was only one human to die for. So what is the big sacrifice? If you still don't understand I have nothing more to say.
God have mercy on you

ps. Linda B., i just wanted to say I thought you gave a great answer and it seems you are the only one who agrees with me. Thankyou

Answer 4

He died His"earthly" death. Just like every human on earth will or has.

This was not a laughing matter to Him or His followers.

The second reason Jesus Christ was born is that he might become an acceptable sacrifice for the payment of sin. Sin is not just a personal affront to God; it has judicial consequences as well. God’s vast kingdom is much bigger than just the human race. He is the governor of the universe. He cannot govern capriciously and still maintain the respect of his subjects. For the sake of all intelligent creatures, God’s government must be ordered according to the standard rule of law—the rule that we all share, that same universal standard assumed by the atheists when they faulted God.

Answer 5

Jesus was 100% God and 100% man while He was on earth but before this He was in complete perfection. Never feeling and pain or sorrow or sadness. Never experiencing the possibility of hatred or lust. He gave up alot just to come to earth and live a human life. He gave up more by allowing Himself to feel the pain of an excrutiating death for people who would not care about Him. Knowing this, He still came and died for the sin of all mankind so there would be, at least, the possibility for every human being who ever lived to know that same perfection He knew. How could it be a sacrafice if He didn't know what He was suppose to do? He's God, of course, He knew. That's what makes it so great. He knew what He had before His death and what He would go through to make heaven accessible to you and me but He did it anyway. That's awesome. That shows how real God's love is for us.

Answer 6

OK, let me get this straight, Jesus was a man. Born of the flesh. Didn't I also read somewhere that, "ALL men have sinned and come short...?"

So then Jesus is NOT without sin. He was born into it, sort of inherited like all of the rest of us, right? So then, how can he both be man and sinless? Isn't this in direct contradiction to his own teachings?

Jesus rose on the the third day... Does that mean he got out of bed? Or did he sort of levitate into the air? I've seen David Blaine do both of those, and the are both just clever camera angles.

So what did the son of God do for the next couple of days? Hang out? Was he still man at that point or did the whole resurrection thing absolve him of the whole human flesh thing? If that's true, not much of a resurrection then, is it? Kind of like a ghost? I don't know, none of it's very clear. Seems to me that it's a cute story that leaves the church way to much room to come up with convenient "truths" about the whole thing. Bah...I'm going back to my coffee.

Answer 7

Jesus, who is God's Word in the flesh, rose from death after three days by the power of the Holy Spirit. This is a big deal for Christians because, the same Holy Spirit will raise us so that death and the grave will have no power over us.

The big sacrifice is that Jesus willfully took all of my sins upon Himself and became my sin. I am declared not guilty because of what He did for me.

2 Corinthians 5:21, God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Thanks, I finally figured it out. Peace.

Answer 8

No, after Jesus was raised, he made a series of miraculous appearances. He did not resume his life as normal.

He did rise to the sky, but he was God from birth. Thats what he was trying to tell everyone and what they had to come to accept in order to be saved.

There was tremendous sacrifice on his part. Imagine yourself giving up 3 years of your life to be devoted to teaching people and saving people who have at their core, rejected who you were since the beginning of time?

Imagine yourself basically taking the body of an animal for 30 years humbling yourself from what you were?

Imagine being questioned and doubted by self-righeous people that think they knew God better than you?

Imagine being put on trial for a crime you didnt committ, only to be found innocent, yet have to suffer punishment anyway?

Imagine being beaten and humiliated during your sentencing?

Imagine having to drag your instrument of torture and death to the spot of your ecexution and you werent even able to take it all the way because of the severity of your beatings?

Imagine being torturously executed all for the people that you are trying to save?

I dunno, does that sound like a big sacrifice? Would you be willing to make such sacrifices for your enemies so that they would have grace and mercy available to them?

Answer 9

Greetings,
Ahhh they say Ignorance is bliss! In this case NOT! You must be very self-centered not to understand that His sacrafice was His leaving the sanctuary of heaven as an everlasting spirit and to be enclosed in a frail human body to suffer as a human being suffers. He was not immortal in His human form He thirsted ,was weary, bled etc.. Then when God the Father determined that it was time to have Christ implement His(God's) plan for redemption of humanity,God severed His connection with Jesus so that Jesus could take on the burden of humanities sin and absolve humanity from it's past and future sin. This then changed humanity's status in the order of God's plan so that now we are able to be saved by believing on Him that took on our sinful burden and to obey the commandments of Him that is in control of everything so that we might be allowed to enter into His kingdom forever.

Answer 10

I have seen no evidence that a single man by that name existed during that period and did the things that are attributed to him.

The similarity to older mythologies suggests a deliberately constructed mythology around a figure, or group of figures, who's origins and fate were historically vague and therefore unverifiable even in the first century.

Answer 11

What part of painful death don't you understand?

Before he was arrested that night, he prayed 3 times we know of, to God asking for loopholes. Being a sensible man, he did not want to go through all the agony of torture leading up to impalement and death.

More than anything else, he wanted to do what his Father wished him to do. Jesus loved humanity as well. That is why he kept himself free from any sin all 33 years of his life.