the question was about why god sacrificed jesus, who he created, instead of sacrificing himself, which would have been an actual sacrifice
"if God sacrificed Himself then where would we be now..Tell me..how much would you have to love someone to sacrifice your child for???It wasn't because he didn't love it is because he love us."
how much would you have to love someone to sacrifice your child for??? well, let's ask susan smith!!! nobody could EVER get me to sacrifice my child!
aren't answers like that scary? and the most scary part is that they always seem to come from christians. not muslims, jews, atheists, pagans, or even satanists, but christians.
2007-07-10 06:21:40 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
eartha - thanks for addressing the scary, kill our kids part of the question
2007-07-10 06:25:45 · update #1
julia - i'm NOT stereotyping. i have NEVER seen a statement like this made by those other groups, but i have seen MANY similar ones made by christians
2007-07-10 06:26:43 · update #2
The worse thing is to consider how much you have to "love" someone before you create a child for the sole purpose of sacrificing it.
Can you imagine someone doing that? God is seriously screwed up.
2007-07-10 06:26:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
That is a scary answer. I understand kind of where he's coming from in a strictly theological sense, but I also see where the argument completely falls apart. It's just poorly expressed. Also the whole point of love and sacrifice was how much God must have loved everyone else to sacrifice his very own son.
I also feel like my answer could have been greatly benefited by italics. Is there a way to do that or am I forced to CAPITALIZE words if I want to add emphasis?
2007-07-10 06:26:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What I think is scary is the way you attack anyone who is different than you. Knowing and understanding the Gospel of Christ takes a life time and to assume that everyone will know exactly how to word their answeres so as to portray that gospel perfectly is assumming that even you know the fullness of the Gospel. My recomendation is to be a christian and rather than ridiculing, love and help people learn the truth. That means that untill you know all the truth you should not be condemning others for what you think is wrong. God did not sacrifice Christ. Christ volonteered to be sacrificed. It was a willing sacrifice. It was hard for the Father to watch thus we read in Matthew 27:46 "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
We see that the Father, the God of Christ, removed himself from his son both to allow him to overcome on his own and to spare himself the pain of seeing his only begotten sacrificed like a pure lamb.
Learn the scriptures you will find that much of what you believe is taught to you by your pasters rather than taught you by the scriptures.
2007-07-10 06:38:18 · answer #3 · answered by Richmond C 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, that's kind of scary. But generalizing and stereotyping -- which is what you did by saying that these answers "always seem to come from christians" -- is pretty scary too.
"Why did God sacrifice Jesus when He could have sacrificed Himself" is not a very intelligent question anyway -- because Jesus is God. So, in effect, He WAS sacrificing Himself.
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2007-07-10 06:25:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
I get so sick of hearing Christians say that Jesus was "sacrificed."
It's not a sacrifice if you come back to life three days later.
2007-07-11 01:18:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. The more I think about it, the more I think it sounds scary, not like an expression of love. "He so loved the world, he sacrificed his only son." Tell me, if (knock on wood) your neighbor were to do that, could his lawyer keep him out of jail with that defense?
2007-07-10 07:18:43 · answer #6 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God inhabited a body that he made for himself for the express purpose of paying for the sin of man. The son of God is called such because he was born of a woman. Jesus is also called the Son of Man. He is God in the flesh.
Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
edit:
Those "answers" always come from Christians because Christianity is the only faith that teaches remission of sin. Read Hebrews 10.
2007-07-10 06:26:48 · answer #7 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm not one for children, I don't plan on ever having children, but if I spend 9 months laboring a child in side of me, I would risk my life and more to save the life of that child, who has taken so much from me, but given even more back when they smile and look into your eyes, when they take the tiniest of hands and wrap it around your finger.
I'd sacrifice myself before I sacrificed my child, in the name of God or any other name.
For reference, I'm an Atheist.
2007-07-10 06:25:55 · answer #8 · answered by Alley S. 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋
I've read a lot of scary answers, and just as many scary questions... so many that half the time I'm convinced that they've GOT to be kidding...
2007-07-10 06:25:55 · answer #9 · answered by ಠ__ಠ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
*shudder*
That's just so . . . crazy people talk. What kind of monster could love ANYONE or ANYTHING more than their own child's life?
But in all honesty, most of those who respond with that sort of thing aren't actually thinking about what they're saying. You pressed the "Jesus" button and the conditioned, brainwashed, rote Sunday School response popped out.
It's easier than thinking about it. o_O
2007-07-10 06:27:31 · answer #10 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋