Some people are tortured for years to the point they completely loose their mind and all sense of reality? It seem like human sin was paid for easily in comparison to the horrific sin that occurs everyday. What do you think?
2007-07-13 08:46:59 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you truly read how Jesus was stoned, spit on, had the crown of thorns crushing into his head, being NAILED to a cross, bleeding to death, being beaten.....You think that compares to anything on this earth??? No way.
Jesus died on that cross for YOU. He loves YOU so much that if YOU were the only person alive then, He STILL would've died that same horrific death just for YOU, because He loves YOU with a love YOUR human brain can't even BEGIN to imagine!!!!
He died for us so that we can enter into heaven if we accept to believe that we are sinners and deserve hell, but because of God's mercy and Jesus' dying on the cross so that His shed blood covered ALL of our sins....We can choose to accept Him and ask Him into our hearts to be our Lord and Saviour and know that we want to follow Him in our lives. We'll still sin and fall down, but we're trying to make ourselves more like Jesus each day.
Nothing compares even REMOTELY CLOSE to what Jesus suffered for you and I. NOTHING.
2007-07-13 08:54:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't just the one day or the six hours on the cross. It was the perfect life that suffered that one day, those six hours. It was the love of God. Really think about it. Jesus is suffering on the cross. He call out to His Father, "Why have you forsaken Me?" God holds all the power in the universe. He has the ability to rescue His Son. He has the strength to destroy all the people who tortured His Son right then and there. But He didn't because He loves you.
2007-07-13 15:56:46 · answer #2 · answered by starfishltd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Am assuming you are asking about Jesus and his days leading to the Cross.
The physical tortures were nothing compared to the spiritual agony he went through of having God the Father turn away from him as he bore our sins. Its the flip side of why we can be wrapped in his sinless nature and stand before God the Father.
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Keep reading, though. As Fox Mulder said, the truth is out there.
2007-07-13 15:53:46 · answer #3 · answered by TheSlayor 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't about physical punishment.
God is in the position of highest authority, of the highest good, and is therefore a being of the highest personal honor.
All sin and evil are therefore an insult to the honor of God, a disregard of His rule and authority and an honor offense.
Any who commit sin/evil, therefore, are degrading God's honor and status. Because this honor rightly belongs to God, it must be restored.
God's proper response is to require the shaming and punishment of those who degrade His honor.
Jesus Christ underwent the crucifixion, a "status degradation ritual," in our place.
As a corollary, one who accepts the payment offered by Jesus ought, sensibly, to be aware of this price that has been paid and respond accordingly. One who does not respond accordingly, we may suggest, is not appreciative of the paid price and may not truly have accepted the gift.
2007-07-13 15:57:44 · answer #4 · answered by D2T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You miss the point.... The point wasn't for Jesus to be "tortured" to death for our sins, though he was, but the point is that he DIED, for our sins, and what people seem to miss is that he had a choice! Jesus had a CHOICE. Who would you choose to die for. Maybe you're loves ones, I know I would. But mankind? every man woman and child? by choice? Jesus chose to sacrifice his LIFE for everyone including you, and to GOD that was enough to pay for our most heinous sins. I'm also quite sure that being nailed to a cross is as torture as torture can get. it' ain't Chinese water torture!
2007-07-13 15:59:15 · answer #5 · answered by Kizzie S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember that this was the Son of God in human form. So his execution was as a symbolic gesture that even God's Son is not beyond the evils of the world. It is also symbolic of what might happen to us if we do not follow His ways. A lot of people have given their lives to make a point.
2007-07-13 15:53:07 · answer #6 · answered by SgtMoto 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the scriptures, Christ decended into Hell, and on the third day he rose again. Therefore God seems to have believed three days was enough to pay for all human sins.
2007-07-13 15:53:57 · answer #7 · answered by Jim L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was torture ending in death.
Death.
Anyway, whatever it was, if it worked for God and he was all cushty with it, it should work for humans. They don't really get a look-in since it was their sin in the first place.
2007-07-13 15:51:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Unless the One being tortured is God Himself.
2007-07-13 15:55:11 · answer #9 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't the intensity of the suffering - though His suffering was extreme - that made the sacrifice worthy, it's the absolute value of the sacrifice Himself. A perfect man, the Son of God and God Himself in human form - was punished in your place. One perfect man who is God incarnate is worth all the sinners that have ever been and will ever be.
2007-07-13 15:54:31 · answer #10 · answered by doppler 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋