Why was Jesus chosen or "foreordained' to be the one to sacrifice his life for us ?

Question

1 Peter 1:19-20---"But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you"

Answer 1

To answer without looking it up...in my own words.

Jesus was the masterworker along side his
Father and God before the founding of the world
and all other creation.
He is loyal to his God and Father.
He is fond of men; he loves us.
Jehovah would know that His Son,
could accomplish this mission, without fail.
Jehovah trusts His Son, and shares much with him.
Gives him much, and this does not detract from His own personage.
Being such an important mission as it was,
He wouldn't give such an assignment to any1 else.

A 'lil off the beaten path...
I would say Jehovah would NOT give it to any of His angels,
some of them, did not standfast in the truth.
Desiring the daughters of men, and such.

Answer 2

The Bible is clear, and it is consistent. One person cannot die for the sins of another. This means that the guilt from the sins committed by one person cannot be wiped out by the punishment given to another person. First, in Exodus 32:30-35, Moses asks God to punish him for the sin of the Golden Calf, committed by the people. God tells Moses that the person who committed the sin is the person who must receive the punishment. Then, in Deuteronomy 24:16, God simply states this as a basic principle, "Every man shall be put to death for his own sins." This concept is repeated in the Prophets, in Ezekiel 18 "The soul that sinneth, it shall die... the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him."

Answer 3

Jehovah decided to redeem sinful mankind from their debased condition by means of a sacrifice. No perfect humans existed to volunteer for this assignment, so rather logically the agent would have had to come from within his own ranks. Although there are perhaps billions upon billions of angelic creatures in heaven, it is in keeping with Jehovah's standards that he sacrifice his firstborn. Michael the Archangel (aka the Word, aka Jesus Christ) was the creme de la creme, the only existing individual to be directly created by the Almighty. Because Jehovah demands the best of the best when it comes to sacrifices, it only makes sense that he sacrifice his only-begotten Son in order to save mankind.

This doesn't mean that Jesus was destined from his creation to die for us, rather, it shows that from the moment God decided to save humankind Jesus was the one chosen to do it.

Answer 4

Because God knew what would happen, before he created the world, and Jesus was always destined to be the Lamb of God.

Here's how it all works:

The first sin had to be a very serious matter, Adam also had to fully understand that it was indeed very serious, and the sin also had to be committed with the full consent of Adam's will.

Finally, the consequences of that first sin had to be such that a simple apology, a pledge of repentance, and God's subsequent forgiveness, would still not be sufficient to make all things whole again.

Based on all of the above, we know that the first sin resulted in Adam's total rejection of God, and his "throwing in" with Satan, against God.

Adam even went so far as to transfer dominion of the whole earth, which God had earlier given him, over to Satan.

And since Adam enjoyed free will, God permitted him to make these choices, and to suffer the eternal consequences.

Once all this was done, Satan turned on Adam, and made a slave of him and his descendents, because, as everyone knows, all the offspring of a slave automatically belong to the master.

This presented a serious problem, because man had no ability to overcome the supernatural dominion that Satan now exercised over him.

Furthermore, God was under no obligation to provide his supernatural graces to his enemies.

Deprived of God's grace, Eden soon disappeared, Adam and Eve began to age, suffer, and die, and the world became an increasingly more hostile and forbidding place.

Mankind lived under constant threat from Satan, who was given the power of death over them, according to their free will choice, and according to God's perfect justice.

But this is not what God had in mind when he created man, so God promised to eventually send a redeemer to destroy Satan's evil dominion, forgive sins, defeat death, and restore all things.

That is exactly what Jesus did.

And the only reason Jesus could do it, when no other human ever could, was because Jesus was never "stained" by sin ... and Satan had no power at all, over one without sin.

Under God's most basic law, one without sin is not liable to die. (This was the flip-side of the same law that Adam broke, when he sinned.)

Jesus permitted Satan and his minions, the Jews and the Romans, to unjustly put him to death, knowing full well that this was the only way Satan's evil dominion could be legally destroyed, as no one, not even the devil, had the authority to take the life of a sinless man, let alone the only son of God.

Once Jesus died, Satan was judged for his great sin, stripped of all that he had earlier gained from Adam's fall, and left destitute.

Jesus was raised from the dead and appointed the new head of all mankind. God was now more than willing to forgive man's sins, and our redemption was truly at hand.

Now, anyone who rejects Satan and swears faithful allegiance to Jesus (typically through baptism) is able to have their sins forgiven, become a living temple of the Holy Spirit, and among other things, also become a member of God's own family.

The church carries on Christ's great work of redemption in the world today.

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Answer 5

No one else could do it. Only Jesus was perfect and without sin. The Lamb without blemish and without spot.

Answer 6

Jesus is a part of the whole of an all knowing God who foreknew man would sin and fall from God's glory. Jesus was the plan of salvation boefore God created the world. Salvation only comes from a perfect God all men had sinned and all had fallen short the only hope for mankind was that God came to the world as a man Jesus Christ to overcome temptation sin and death for all who accept the atonement.

Answer 7

John 8:57-59 (King James Version)
57Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

58Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Jesus is the Son of God and was with God when He created the world.


John 1
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2The same was in the beginning with God.

3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Answer 8

Because he's the Elect One as named in the book of enoch..that phrase "Before the foundation of the world" means before this flesh age...he was God's champion and fought against satan and those that rebelled against God. so because of his actions in the first earth age. that soul was chosen to be the BEGOTTEN, or Born of God, all are sons of God including satan and the fallen...but one was chosen based on what he did to be born of God into the flesh to be Our Passover from death/sin/satan.

Answer 9

Jesus did not give his life for you. The Passion is a parable to explain that what you truly are is not the body, but eternal, the way the truth, the light.

The doctrine of Jesus being the only son of god, and of this sacrifice, was invented at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

Answer 10

Because he is the SON of God.