if you believe that Jesus IS god?

Question

then how is Jesus's death on the cross a sacrifice? I mean, if he's god, it's not like he has anything to lose by dying, right?

Answer 1

I agree 100%!! this whole concept with Jesus dying for others is so contradictory.

If God is all omnicient and powerful he wouldnt need another persons sacrafice and god didnt put people on this earth to do what thy please now since Jesus has already payed for their sins.

Also they say it was God's spirit that entered his body... then why do they say that jesus was crying becuse he didnt feel the presence of God ( If they claim he was already in his body)

and then jesus said "God why have you forsaken me" and dont tell me he jesus as they claim "Lord Jesus" was asking himself that while hey claim Gods spirit was in him.

UGH! Just thinking about all the contradiction makes my head spin

Answer 2

He said He had the power to lay down His life and the power to take it back up. Have you ever known a King go willingly to 39 lashes, a crown of thorns, spit in the face, hands and feet nailed just so He could win eternal life back for His people. He did this to defeat Satan because Satan never thought that God would stoop so low for men and women. Satan thinks men and women are the lowest thing on the earth. Lower than worms. Satan thinks we are so inferior and he can't understand why God would choose us over him and the angels. Men can't believe that God would do this, much less Satan. Jesus bore the shame, the disgrace and the physical pain for you and me. Jesus felt pain. Jesus was the God man. Satan tried to kill every child that he could kill so that Jesus wouldn't come into the world to save it. Satan knew enough of the plan of God to know that he must stop Jesus from coming into the world as a flesh and blood man.

Answer 3

Its a sacrifice in that He took on the nature of a servant ... and ... humbled himself" (Phil. 2:5-7). And how far did Jesus' humility go? "He ... became obedient to death - even death on a cross!" (Phil. 2:8). Jesus' humility expressed itself in sacrifice - a sacrifice that went all the way to death, a death that went all the way to its lowest means: crucifixion of an outcast criminal. It is the act of giving up something valued (His Son) for the sake of something else more important or worth. (Redemption of man.)

Answer 4

The Bible is very clear that Jesus was both fully God and fully man. As a man he endured the most painful and shameful death of all time. He did this as a sacrifce to bridge the gap between sinful man and a holy God. To do this he had to represent both sides completely. Just as death entered the world through one man (adam) So salvation shall be inherited through one man Christ Jesus.

Answer 5

The only thing an almighty, infinite, and eternal being cannot really taste is weakness and boundaries as well as death. Death is totally foreign to a supreme being. It would be like asking a king to work and suffer in the farms.

Answer 6

What are you talking about. Our own God (Jesus Christ) died for His creation. How is it not a sacrifice to live on this earth and die after living a perfect life? He was tortured more then anyone else was. This is a sin to mock God with such a question. God will forgive you if you ask Him.

Answer 7

Its a sacrifice because Jesus didn't have to die because He was sinless but he layed down his life , bore the sins of the world on him on our behalf so we can have a relationship with God if we will obey and follow Him.

Answer 8

Here's the secret. Jesus was showing us that we all continue on after death. By physically dying and being resurrected, he conquered death for all of us.

Answer 9

Jesus Christ is also 100% human. In His humanity, he bore our sins on the cross. In His humanity, he raised from the dead, for us.

He was tempted like one of us (like the 1st Adam) yet was without sin. The wages of sin is death, and since He was without sin, but bore mans worst sins on the cross (even the one of torturing an innocent man to death). Since He was without sin in His humanity, death couldn't keep Him in the grave. Jesus raised from the dead, whole; everlasting body, soul & spirit.

Actually the Savior of Mankind who would overcome the serpents deception & the curse of death was prophecied of in Genesis 3:15. Jesus is the seed of the Woman and was not conceived by man with sin nature by conceived by the Holy Spirit & without sin nature.

Jesus could have failed like the 1st Adam, in His humanity. Then, if he had sinned, he wouldn't have defeated death & the grave.

Jesus is God in that He is the Word of God. Yahweh Elohim is God the Father, Word & Holy Spirit.

Also Jesus humanity has also been exalted with the Name above all (because He suffered the cross & raised from the dead)... That at the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow & every tongue confess Yeshua Messiah is Yahweh.

So, now the Christian foundation is baptizing disciples in the Name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit.

I like to say God the Father, Word/Son & Holy Spirit.

Jesus had our salvation to gain by dieing for us & raising from the dead. The Word of God coming to us & being human was new 2000 yrs ago.


Isaiah 53 explains it quite well. Just pray to God honestly from your heart, for understanding first. God is watching you.

Answer 10

First, he sacrificed living in the perfection of Heaven for living on a sin-filled earth. Second, he sacrificed living in His glorified body and took on a human body. Third, he endured the pain of the cross.

Quite a lot of sacrificing, don't you think?