Why did jesus have to be crucified?

Question

Why couldn't he have died naturally?

And if the reason is because god wanted blood, couldn't he have had a disciple stab him or something less painful than crucification?

i know jesus wasnt the only person crucified...

Answer 1

God loves blood and sacrifice. Read up on some OT.

Answer 2

He had to be crucified because it was the right thing for him to do. It really has nothing at all to do with a "blood sacrifice" for our sins. That is a very Pagan belief held by many Romans, and snuck into Christianity some 200 years after the death of Jesus.

Jesus accepted crucifixion because it goes with the pattern of the life he lived and taught. He died forgiving the very people who were crucifying him. He lived what he preached, even in dying.

Answer 3

Christ was crucified to satisfy justice. He was crucified in your place to satisfy mercy. All sin is worthy of death, and eternally so. Our God is perfect, without defect or wrongdoing, but there is no human being that fits that description. Man deserves nothing from God except dissatisfaction, but because of God's great love, He paid the penalty for you (as only He could being perfect). God incarnated as Jesus Christ, to live the life you couldn't, and to pay the price you would've. Many men have been crucified, but only one did not deserve it the least little bit because He alone was without sin. So, one who does not deserve it, takes the penalty for one who does. And the one who did it was God himself. Why? Because He would not be a just God if he let people live evil lives and go unpunished. Yet man is redeemable, and God accepts us, even in our fallen sinfulness, if we will accept that sacrifice of Christ on our behalf. It is the only legitimate way to be acceptable before God, because only God Himself is wholly acceptable. Crucifixion was a horrible way to go, and that should make us all the more appreciative. If we can look at the cross and still not receive Christ as Lord and Savior, then God will be completely right in forbidding you from entrance to heaven. You know what that will mean.

Answer 4

Finally, a good question. I'll try to sum it up briefly. In the Old Testament, God made covenants with the nation of Israel that required them to make offerings once a year to cover their sins. There were certain laws and stipulations God also made that mankind and God Himself was bound too. God's ultimate plan was to redeem mankind and restore relationship of man to Himself. However, because of the covenants He made, there was no way he could do it. Because God is bound by His own covenant, there would only be two ways of breaking the covenant and making a new one. Either all humanity would have to die, or God would have to die. Because a covenant could only be broken by the death of one of the parties involved in it.
Therefore, God came in the form of Jesus to earth to establish a new covenant (New Testament) that would replace the old. However, for this to take place, the old covenant would have to be broken. Therefore Jesus (being God) allowed Himself to be sacrificed and killed. Not only to cancel out the old covenants, but to be a perfect sacrifice to cover the sins of mankind indefinately.
That is as brief as I can make it, having it still make some sense.

Answer 5

Jesus died to pay what we could not, that is for our sin.
Crucifixion shows just how bad our sins are, but the spiritual
part was the most painful, when the Father turn His back on the Son and He suffered the Hell we should feel.

Answer 6

Because unless the seed falls to the ground and dies the tree cannot grow.

The pain of the crucifixion is a prefigurement of the joy of of HEAVEN.

The Crucifixion had to be as it was because it was prefigured in the judgement of adam, eve, and the serpent . ..

The Gospel closely follows the first part of Genesis we call the protoevangelium and it was JESUS' task in obedience to fulfill this for the salvatio of man, in a reflection or mirror image of what happened in the garden that caused teh fall of man . .. Saint Paul has written where was by one man's disobedience we are fall . .. but by one man's obedience we are restored . ..

JESUS had to be crucified, to return to the FATHER and to send the HOLY SPIRIT unto us . .. to give us the BODY AND THE BLOOD which we are then ONE BODY IN CHRIST . .. that through JESUS in the unity of THE HOLY SPIRIT we may be redeemed through CHRIST . ..

-LOVE your neighbor as yourself. . .
Amen

Answer 7

There were a lot of people crucified and killed in gory, terrible ways. Haven't you heard of those pits that have been uncovered with so many dead people in them that the bodies can't even decompose after all these centuries? It's just a big, gooey mess. If Jesus exisited that's where his body is.

Answer 8

Because he was killed by the Romans and crucifixion was their method of execution. If Jesus had been killed by one of is disciples or any other Jew, he would have died stoned, that was the Jewish method of execution.

Answer 9

And if God required suffering, why didn't God have him tortured for days or weeks before hand? That seems like it would be worse than (the horrible practice of) crucifixion, which is what God (apparently) was going for.

Answer 10

It wouldn't have quite the same emotional impact, if he just up and died one day like the Buddha.