Christians: Can you explain how jesus saves you from jesus' damnation of you to hell?

Question

It doesnt seem logical

Answer 1

Jesus is bipolar maybe?

Some days I'm real good and some days I'm real bad, mostly I'm not especially good or bad so where will he send me?

Answer 2

Sure. Gimme a sec.

Our sins condemn us. Jesus is the One who calls it like He sees it. If we have not repented and turned from our sins, our worthy punishment is death.
In His mercy, God created a plan to save any planet that fell into Satan's rebellion. Justice demands that sinners be punished, but His desire is that no one should be lost. So His backup plan was that He would take our place, so that anyone who wanted, could be spared from the righteous judgment. This attitude of God can be seen in almost every single Bible story. With Sodom and Gomorrah, He kept lowering the amount of people that had to be righteous in order for Him to spare the city, then anyone who would listen could still leave and survive. Also with the flood, Noah preached for 120 years! Plenty of time was allowed for people to get on the Ark. But when their minds were made up, the decision making time was closed. It is the same way now. God is calling for people to accept Him before time runs out. You have twisted what is actually happening, but you are not totally off. Jesus is the judge, and the defense attorney. Someone who is guilty and is not sorry, is going to face the full force of the law. But someone who repents, will be shown mercy. Think about this. Jesus has done all He can to save you. If you are lost, if will be 100% your fault. On the day of judgment, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, because people will realize how foolish their choice was.

Answer 3

There is a law unchangeably decreed for all eternity. God cannot even change it. Wickedness never was happiness. It ultimately ends in pain. There are two facts of life: 1. God cannot tolerate sin in the least degree. 2. All of us sin. Don't stop reading right there! For tremendously good news follows. A mediator between us and God has paid the price for our sins, that we may return to God, the source from whence we sprang. Jesus Christ sacrifice His own life to give us the opportunity for redemption from the effects of our own sins. Should we not take hold of the gift of salvation it shall be as if no sacrifice was made on our behalf. How do we take hold on this gift? Believing in Jesus Christ. Belief leads to action, specifically the action of repentance and a renewal of self to where the old person is cast off and we are born anew as new creatures...sons and daughters unto Jesus Christ forever. God bless you.

Answer 4

I used this analogy earlier and it seems to fit here as well...

If I tell someone that jumping off a bridge will kill them how am I condemning them to die? If they jump, gravity (a natural force) and their own actions (jumping) are what caused them to die.

If God created us (and the rest of the universe), he, more than anyone else, knows the way his creation works. Death of the physical body is a certainty for all of us, but what if there is a life beyond that and that life is only available to those who are able to learn certain things in this life that will allow them to exist in that one? Would it be condemning someone to hell (or eternal death if you will) to try to help them develop that knowledge before the physical body dies?

I'm not even trying to suggest that any of this is the case, but I don't believe that God or Jesus is damning anyone to hell...God is love and love is not consistent with damnation. However, it is entirely consistent with love to tell someone about the natural consequences of their actions/choices and it is even more loving to give them the information they need to avoid negative consequences. As a parent, it is my job to teach my son how to live to avoid negative consequences (e.g., look both ways before you cross the street)...am I condeming him to die if I tell him he can be killed if he doesn't listen to me?

Answer 5

Here goes. God creates man. God tells man not to eat from one certain tree, because if he does he will die (spiritual death). Man ignores God and listens to God's enemy and eats it anyway. God cannot go back on his word, so he must send man to spiritual death. God loves man and does not want to lose him forever. So God realizes the only way to save man is for God himself to come to earth and live as a man and never sin, then be willingly sacrificed and dying in mans place. However God knows that he can do what man cannot, and that is rise from the dead and defeat death. And all man has to do is repent from sins and believe in the resurrection of Jesus.

Answer 6

Jesus' doesn't damn you to hell, the devil does. Jesus asked the devil how much would it cost to save people from going to hell, the devil said it will cost your life. Jesus payed that price and here we are


Thats the simple, short downed, too tired to right version. If you want the long one just leave me a message.

Answer 7

When the world got to a point of so much sin God sent Jesus to die on the cross for the world: For God loved the world so much, he gave his only begotten son. Whoever believes in him shall be saved, if you reject what God gave for you, as a sacrafice then you are denying God, therfore you can't go to a place you don't believe exsist

Answer 8

First of all only Catholics can be saved!We don't recognise the rest of Christianity as followers of Christ but that another days work.Jesus has shown us that He has suffered as we have and that He has shown us the path to Heaven.He will take us to Heaven if we are truly sorry for our sins, but if we do not we will be damned.

He has saved us from the sin of man.

Answer 9

We have a spiritual debt because of sin. Jesus has offered to pay the debt. If you don't accept that offer, you still owe and will have to pay on your own.

Answer 10

Its a simple matter of taking a good look at yourself and comparing yourself to the morals of God..... none of us are good like God is....... we are all sinners.. we lie, cheat, steal, are mean to people, etc..... and God says that the punishment for doing the things we do is going to hell........ God is a just God, he doesn't want people to go to hell........ but he knows that is what the punishment is........ and so does satan..... God made us perfect........ but he also made us with a free will to choose to do what is right from what is wrong..... satan tempts us to do wrong..... satan tempted adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden so that if they did wrong then they would be seperated from God, satan tempted them to do something God told them not to do and they did it........ so the bloodline of people forever would be that of a sinner - people who do wrong things against God........ but God sent his son Jesus who took all of our punishments when he took a beating and died on the cross for us.. he took the punishment so that we wouldn;t have to take it.... God didn't and does not want us to go to hell ever..... its your choice. All you have to do is admit to God that you have done wrong things and ask for his forgiveness and ask Jesus to save you ......... ANYBODY that goes to hell goes simply because they chose not to ask Jesus to save them and and want to be a better person. Its thier choice.