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Question

I guess i need help understanding. What does it mean when people say Christ is the savior? I know they say, he died for our sins. But how can a man save humanity? Is it that Christ is not just a man, but is a piece of god? For lemans terms, meaning me, did got take a piece of his body and make a son with his powers to save us?

Answer 1

The New Testament informs us that Christ was the son of Joseph and the son of God, and that Mary was his mother.

How is it established that Christ was the son of God?

It is said that Joseph was told so in a dream by an angel.

But Joseph wrote nothing on that subject -- said nothing so far as we know. Mary wrote nothing, said nothing. The angel that appeared to Joseph or that informed Joseph said nothing to anybody else. Neither has the Holy Ghost, the supposed father, ever said or written one word. We have received no information from the parties who could have known anything on the subject. We get all our facts from those who could not have known.

How is it possible to prove that the Holy Ghost was the father of Christ?

Who knows that such a being as the Holy Ghost ever existed?

How was it possible for Mary to know anything about the Holy Ghost?

How could Joseph know that he had been visited by an angel in a dream?

Could he know that the visitor was an angel? It all occurred in a dream and poor Joseph was asleep. What is the testimony of one who was asleep worth?

All the evidence we have is that somebody who wrote part of the New Testament says that the Holy Ghost was the father of Christ, and that somebody who wrote another part of the New Testament says that Joseph was the father of Christ.

Matthew and Luke give the genealogy and both show that Christ was the son of Joseph.

The "Incarnation" has to be believed without evidence. There is no way in which it can be established. It is beyond the reach and realm of reason. It defies observation and is independent of experience.

It is claimed not only that Christ was the Son of God, but that he was, and is, God.

Was he God before he was born? Was the body of Mary the dwelling place of God?

What evidence have we that Christ was God?

Somebody has said that Christ claimed that God was his father and that he and his father were one. We do not know who this somebody was and do not know from whom he received his information.

Somebody who was "inspired" has said that Christ was of the blood of David through his father Joseph.

This is all the evidence we have.

Can we believe that God, the creator of the Universe, learned the trade of a carpenter in Palestine, that he gathered a few disciples about him, and after teaching for about three years, suffered himself to be crucified by a few ignorant and pious Jews?

Christ, according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the Holy Ghost the third. Each of these three persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten -- just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father and Son, but was equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say, before he existed, but he is of the same age of the other two.

So, it is declared that the Father is God, and the Son God and the Holy Ghost God, and that these three Gods make one God.

According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.

How is it possible to prove the existence of the Trinity?

Is it possible for a human being, who has been born but once, to comprehend, or to imagine the existence of three beings, each of whom is equal to the three?

Think of one of these beings as the father of one, and think of that one as half human and all God. and think of the third as having proceeded from the other two, and then think of all three as one. Think that after the father begot the son, the father was still alone, and after the Holy Ghost proceeded from the father and the son, the father was still alone -- because there never was and never will be but one God.

At this point, absurdity having reached its limit, nothing more can be said except: "Let us pray."

--Robert Green Ingersoll, 1895

Answer 2

OK...
So, first off, Christ and our Heavenly Father are two different people. They're both perfect and stuff but they are two different people. Otherwise what God doing in the Garden of Gethsemene? Talking to Himself? Christ came down here and was born just like the rest of us but He lived a perfect life.

Now, what does it mean that He was "The Savior"? Well...when we all come down here we sin and make mistakes. The sins make us unclean which separates us form God because "no unclean thing can dwell in the presence of God." Now, we all want to get back to live with our Father in Heaven so it seems like we've doomed ourselves. Well, the "good news" is that Christ suffered the punishment that we would've had to endure for our sins. If we repent the way He asked us to, we can be forgiven and be made clean again (repentance means change so a true repentance will actually change the way we view the world and will change our actual desires...it actually makes us clean again...). Also, He was perfect so He still wasn't unclean. That's one of the reasons I love Him so much...he suffred the worst things sufferable and He didn't have to. Without Him, the whole plan God set-up wouldn't work. He was the key - the foundation of the whole thing!

So, simple answer: He suffered in Gethsemene then died on the cross so we could overcome spiritual death (sin - separation from God) and physical death (separation from our body).

Answer 3

God is a holy God. He cannot dwell in the presence of sin. But He loves man, yet man is constantly doing evil. The only way God could once again have fellowship with man was for someone to pay the price for the sins man had done. We see this in society- a criminal must pay for his crime. But the wages of sin in God's book, is death. So He would never be able to fellowship with men if we all went to hell. So He arranged for Jesus, a perfect man, who was all God and all human, to be a sacrifice. He paid the debt, or 'did the prison sentence" that we should have paid. Now all we have to do is believe that He is the Lord., and accept the sacrifice He made on our behalf. Thus, He is 'our savior' because He saved us from having to spend eternity away from God.

Answer 4

Christ took on a flesh body so that people will not have the excuse to say life in the flesh was to difficult to bare or it is impossible to follow God instruction in the flesh. Christ dealth in the flesh conquered sin, so believing in this give you the right to be called christians his blood wash away our sins, so now when we make mistakes or stray from him or his instruction we ask for forgiveness and Christ blood cleanses us.... it a wonderful thing

Answer 5

Think of a woman drowning. You jump into the water and you save her from drowning, and she says, 'You are my savior'. That is what is meant by Christ being the Savior. All persons who are born into this world need a Savior from sin and the nature that they are born with

No person can serve God with the nature that they are born with. That nature is against God. They need God to radically execute that nature, the nature that they are born with. Then God has to radically infuse that person with His (God's) Holy Spirit. Then that person is ready to begin serving God.

Jesus is the Savior of mankind the kind of savior in my example but regarding their soul.

Answer 6

Christ, referred to as the "Son of God", actually is God himself, made flesh. From the bible, John 1: 1 says "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God." and in verse 14 it goes on to say: "The word became flesh, he lived among us." this "Word" refers to Jesus Christ, who is God himself. (the concept of the Trinity.) God dwelt amongst us in the flesh as Christ. by his death in the flesh, he died to sin, conquering it for all mankind, and resurrecting on the third day, as a sign of new life to all, free from the enslavement of sin. This is how Christ is the Savior.

~PhoeniX~

Answer 7

God used the virgin Mary for the incarnation of His son. Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit and brough forth the man/God Jesus. Jesus was fully man and fully God simultaneously--two natures in one person.

This is why Jesus can die for the sins of humanity. He choose to become man so that men could become the sons of God.

Answer 8

I have a different take on it than perhaps other Christians.

The Jewish people used to sacrifice food (produce, animals - hey, many money?) for forgiveness of their sins.

If you sacrifice a HUMAN, why, then, that's pretty much the ultimate price for sins - especially if the person did it voluntarily. So, to me, that makes it the ultimate sacrifice for sins. And an ultimate sacrifice would probably be for, like, all humans.

If you wish to accept the sacrifice, of course.

Answer 9

The Son, The Spirit ans the Holy Ghost.... it is referred to as the Trinity..... Jesus is the son of God... as the other person said some believe that he is God in human form.... which is pretty much it... the trinity is the tree parts of God. son(jesus),
spirit(soul perhaps) Holy Ghost..... could be many things.... our soul in heaven.... God...... the resurrected Jesus..... I think I may have just made you more confused sorry ^_^

Answer 10

They can say he's the savior because they believe that he is a human being, rather than a myth based on the rising sun after the dark night.