Was Jesus guilty of suicide since he had the power to defend himself but he didn't use it?

Question

(with apologies to Robert Green Ingersoll)

Apostolic War Cry!: What makes you think it's my doing?

Ana: how can a god die?

Answer 1

The Jesus story has always seemed somewhat foolish to me. Why could God only have one son? If he's God can't he have as many as he wants to? And what exactly is the whole point of the sacrifice anyway, couldn't God simply decree that man could be absolved from his sins in some other way, like believing in him personally. I would think that an all powerful God wouldn't have to resort to these kinds of actions in order to accomplish what he wants.

Answer 2

before everything, while you're being murdered, no longer attempting to resign the human beings killing you isn't precisely suicide. Suicide is killing your self. it quite is no longer somebody else killing you and you allowing them to by using fact the different individuals are nonetheless those doing the killing. Secondly, suicide is unhappy, yet i do no longer know that i might call it a sin. the different factor you are able to evaluate is that Jesus got here to the earth for the only purpose of demise. In His demise, He gave anybody in the international existence and the possibility to be with Him for eternity. by potential of demise, He forgave our sins. If every physique else have been to die like that, there is not any genuine way for them to end what Jesus did by potential of giving His existence on the go. He sacrificed His existence for us. If somebody risked their existence for you, or every physique else, might you call that a suicide attempt? Hypothetically conversing, enable's say you had dedicated a criminal offense worth of demise and you have been to be killed for what you had performed. Then, some stranger got here and took your punishment so which you will desire to flow unfastened. considering the fact that they have been killed for you and did no longer attempt to resign the persecutors, might you call that suicide? it particularly is largely what Jesus did. we've all sinned and the punishment we deserve is what Jesus persevered on the go. that's what we would could struggle by way of if Jesus hadn't performed it for us. we are in charge, however the harmless took our punishment in simple terms by using fact He loves us. interior the top, it quite relies upon the type you define suicide. If it quite is the type you define it, then sure, Jesus did devote suicide. I call it a sacrifice.

Answer 3

You have to understand the reason why jesus was SENT to the earth.
He was sent AS A SACRIFICE.
With his life, he was ' buying back' for us the right to live without death.
Adam through disobedience, lost it for us. And Adam was a perfect man. It took another perfect man to buy it back. No man on earth qualified because we are all sinners. So Almighty God Jehovah supplied to us his only son for this purpose.
Look at what Jesus said about it.
(Matthew 26:51-54) But, look! one of those with Jesus reached out his hand and drew his sword and struck the slave of the high priest and took off his ear. 52 Then Jesus said to him: “Return your sword to its place, for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword. 53 Or do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father to supply me at this moment more than twelve legions of angels? 54 In that case, how would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must take place this way?”

Answer 4

No. He was fulfilling Scripture. He understood that He had to die and be resurrected in order to atone for the sins of the rest of us. If He had "defended" Himself, He would have been acting against fate and God.

Answer 5

~paralyzer: Kahlua and Vodka with a splash of milk

There's got to be a better way to waste time on the computer. Dang, I wish there was a "Darker than Black" episode to download. Maybe I'll just start the series over again.

edit: (See?See?? now edhelosa has just been driven batty, and Annie can only sigh)

OKOK, in rebuttal to the thumbs down I just got, let me say this one thing. In Black Magic, the practice of blood sacrifice was used to empower the spell. But a willing sacrifice nullified the spell.

So, in two ways, Christ brought us out of the dregs of superstition. One, He nullified evil and Two, He showed us that there is a triumph over death itself.

Answer 6

No...it wasn't suicide it was a fulfilled prophecy since Gods plan was to send HIS only Son to pay the price for our sins so that we could have eternal life in Heaven...otherwise, we ALL would have to live in Hell in the afterlife. HE loves us all that much that he sacrificed HIS own flesh and blood so that we could be saved from eternal damnation.

Answer 7

He was guilty,
He was guilty,
the power flowed through his veins,
he raised up his friends,
washed there feet,
and give thanks,
his words of invitation,
showed examples of god-like love,
were appearance meant nothing,
foot prints on the sand,
He was guilty alright,
guilty in showing,
with great power,
I am your servant,
I am a humble master,
my examples of love are the way,
my brethrens we have eternal life,
like me,
you can do things,
even more and greater deeds,
believe in the way,
examples,
if you cannot believe in what I say,
believe in yourself,
there you will find the truth.

Answer 8

It was a prophesied ritual suicide. Most "religious" people choose not to look at it like that, because suicide is a sin and it's contradictory to their beliefs.

There is thing called 'suicide by cop' wherein the person doesn't actually take their own life, but they allow someone else to kill them. Jesus went to a location where he knew what was going to happen, he chose to go and commit suicide in a ritual sacrifice.

Answer 9

Jesus is guilty of the great love which saved many mans souls. He is guilty of sending the greatest gift man has possibly ever received the Gift of the Holy spirit which entwines itself into the souls of t hose who except him as Lord and Savior. The mighty councilor.

Answer 10

Jesus had to die in order to defeat hell. Would you be guilty of suicide if someone gave you the choice of killing yourself or everyone you love dieing in your place, and you knew for 100% sure that if you died, they'd be allowed to live? That is similar to the choice jesus was given, he chose to die for us.