Then why bother to send his only son (Jesus Christ) to earth to die for our sins. Why not just forgive? who was he trying to impress? It all seems a little bit extreme for me.
2007-07-31 00:22:49 · 15 answers · asked by Gilo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
if it were that easy, do you think anyone would even care if they sinned or not? i think everyone will just take salvation forgranted and go on living in sin. God has been so generous with us as it is, through His mercy and grace. none of us deserve this, so we should just be thankful and accept this gift.
2007-07-31 00:29:02 · answer #1 · answered by savedatlast 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It really bothers me that the God of the bible is into blood sacrifices, animals, and in the new testament man's sacrifice.
Why not forgiving Adam and Eve in the first place instead of sending his own son to be tortured and killed later on? IT does not make any sense, Christianity seems a cult into blood and human sacrifices , I find that religion very morbid, nothing good about it.
2007-07-31 00:44:39 · answer #2 · answered by . 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Forgiveness does not cover the consequences to sin. If a child plays in a street, against his parent's wishes, even though the parents forgive the son for being disobedient -- the fact remains that oncoming traffic may kill the child.
There are consequences to sin -- death. Ultimately, the death is physical, but there is also death to relationships, death to our own moral standards (let alone God's standards), death to peace and joy. The consequences of sin is death. God forgives sin, but consequences remain -- unless somebody does something about them.
God chose to come in the flesh, as a Man, though still God (the Second Being of God). As a Man, He identified with us, knows our weaknesses and struggles, faced life with us. As God He did not sin -- He suffered through the weaknesses doing the right thing always. The longer we are tempted, the worse the temptation gets -- He suffered temptation at it's worst -- yet never gave in to it.
Then, as a perfect Man, having not sinned once, He died in our place. Since He did not have to pay the penalty for sins being perfect -- but did anyway -- death could not hold Him. He had no consequences to pay. Therefore, God, the First Being, raised Him from the dead. Then, God said, If You believe this (by actually trusting Jesus, not just SAYING you trust Jesus, and by making Him Lord), then He is your Substitute, and I will see Him when I look at you, and say that you've paid the consequences to sin.
That goes beyond forgiveness. That is salvation, and it breaks the power of sin. Through Jesus, we are free from the power of sin -- much stronger than forgiveness -- it is total healing and a return of life, including relationships, joy, peace.
2007-07-31 00:56:31 · answer #3 · answered by Rhonda F 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Question back at you...
Did God die? (Given the premise that God cannot die nor was he born)..
Is God able to forgive as and when he wishes? (given that Jesus said forgive 70x7)
Why would Jesus, being God, (and thus an "us" entity) utter "why have YOU forsaken ME?
Did Jesus ever say pray to me?
Would God punish the whole world for the sin of ONE man (Adam) if he intended to send his son (pure) to die for them?
I'm not questioning God - I'm questioning the people who depict Him as anything less than able to forgive at will, damn at will, create at will, give Choice at will, send prophets and messengers at will... I question the ideas that put into question the sovereignty of God. For anything less than Sovereign is not the God I know. HE is Sovereign.
Just a thought.. take it, leave it... all's well.
2007-07-31 01:21:43 · answer #4 · answered by Sugar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a God of justice. In fact, that is one of his cardinal attributes. You can notice this in the law covenant with the nation of Israel.
Forgiveness must be based on something. It cannot simply be extended because He wants to. God's cardinal attributes are love, power, justice and wisdom. Now all of these are perfectly in balance within him, with love perfecting them all. So although His love for His human creation moves him to want to forgive, His perfect sense of justice will never be disregarded.
He explained to the first humans what would happen if they disobeyed. He clearly spelled that out. They disobeyed anyway. His perfect justice required that a perfect human being buy back what the perfect human being (Adam) had lost. No more and no less. That is why the animal sacrifices could not make complete atonement. Animals are inferior to us.
He was not trying to impress anyone. Still, we can find His perfect justice and love impressive enough, yes? This is a person who will never be swayed by sentimental feelings. Yet, he will go the distance to deliver his beloved human children. God did not die for humans. God allowed his only-begotten son in the heavens to be born as a perfect human and make the sacrifice. Remember what happened with Isaac and his father Abraham? When Abraham attempted to offer Isaac, it was to demonstrate what God would do. (Hebrews 11:17) Abraham was not going to sacrifice himself, was he? No, but his son, Isaac. So too with God. God did not sacrifice himself. Which is impossible anyway, since the scriptures teach that God cannot die. No, God sent his son who came to be born as a perfect human.
We can have confidence in a God who has the power, wisdom, justice and love to do things exactly as they should be done.
Hannah
2007-07-31 00:39:13 · answer #5 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's dream of Is rail (prophecy) a nation that make a scenario to take all the word and make them to believe in one good but seem when Jesus came scenario change and producer said that this is for all the nation ,but still is not finish and will continue till one big meedior crash the earth and life ended and again some where in universe another kind of life start to beginning and again kind of prophecy will create for there.
2007-07-31 00:51:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
god turns his back on humanity, then sends jesus to earth, jesus dies and says that no one comes to the father except through him. now, if this trinity dribble is correct then ONE BEING is saying that he rejects humanity, but humanity can only come to him through him...
i need an Advil...
EDIT
he sent jesus to die for humanity's sins, yet sent EVERYONE of them to earth with a plan for their entire life. where is the sacrifice in that???
and don't start in with free will, either you are sent here with the ability to choose the course of your life and god is rolling the dice as to whether you will be a Christan, or he as a friggin plan. you cant have both...
2007-07-31 01:20:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Forgiveness was only part of the solution.
The world was forever changed by Adam's sin, and someone had to erpair the rift between man and God.
The damage done by Adam's sin, and the resulting evil dominion of Satan had to be overcome ... and it was not a simple matter. In fact, it was impossible for any non-divine man to do.
And it isn't completely finished yet.
2007-07-31 01:33:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God, instead of snapping his fingers and erasing everything he created and then creating everything new again, faced his accuser...could a perfect creation of God remain faithful to God? We lost perfection through the disloyal behavior of a perfect man, Adam. We regained the privilege of obtaining perfection again through the loyal behavior of the perfect man, Jesus, while on earth. Since the question has already been answered, we are waiting for the hour that everything is going to be made new again; the way it was mean to be since the beginning.
2007-07-31 00:36:04 · answer #9 · answered by Aeon Enigma 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You agree or you do not agree that God is omnipresent and nothing can be conceived being without God, but the thing is so. Omnipresent God forgives omnipresent God and nobody else as there is nothing except God.
2007-07-31 00:33:56 · answer #10 · answered by sv 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't need to impress anyone... he wanted to show people how much he loved them...he sent his only son to die for our sins... the only way he could forgive humanity would have been done after everyone would have died... so instead of sacrificing the whole world, he sacrificed his one son...that's how great his love for us is! it was a trade he did to save us, in order to have a balance in the universe... it was necesarry his sacrifice... and people shouldn't question his reasons for doing that, but praise God for the amazing love he carries within itself for humans... how many of you could have done this? to give up on your son for the world? that's a proof of his great power and love...
2007-07-31 01:01:54 · answer #11 · answered by uptowngirl 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋