Why did Christ die?

Answer 1

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 says, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”

Answer 2

He came and died for his Father's name and honor.

Our first father, Adam, screwed it up for everybody till this day. That is why we die. Jesus and his Father, Jehovah, are in perfect agreement about justice and righteousness. A perfect man must balance the scales of justice. No human son of Adam could do this. Jesus, by having Jehovah as his Father and human Mary as his mother could be perfect.

All those animal sacrifices in the OT led up to Jesus as Hebrews 9:12-15 shows. It lead to the forgiveness of that sin so we can get back to the perfection Adam had. It is a long road to travel, but if it was easy, anybody could do it.

He also died for two other reasons. To show resurrection is possible to heavenly life and a promotion for Jesus to a position 2nd only to Jehovah, Himself. Secondly, (and this is the best for us) Jehovah brought Jesus back to life and restored all his memories of his prehuman existence. This is important to us as we think of all the people we know who have died. They can be restored to life with all the knowledge they had before into new physical bodies on earth. Imagine great-great grandma or Abraham and Noah coming back with all the knowledge and experiences they had!

Answer 3

John 3:16

16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Answer 4

Jesus Christ died for the sins of the elect, securing their salvation for all eternity.

Answer 5

I'm not Christian, but even I get this.

Christ gave His life to emphasise His message of love. (indeed I HAVE edited this a bit to my own, but I'm sure Christians will still agree) Rather than fight against His aggressors (and make them even LESS willing to listen to Him), He chose to allow them to take His life.

That way, we now see who was 'in the wrong', as such. There was Christ, who was spreading a message of love, and hadn't killed or hurt anyone, and there was the other side, who had to resort to killing to settle their issues.

I hope that my interpretation is accurate enough, as I don't want to offend anyone. Please do feel free to email me if it is not.

((((hugs))))

May peace go with you throughout your life

Answer 6

He laid down His life as the perfect sacrifice to redeem man from sin back to His Father. He obeyed God's will so we might have life everlasting in His kingdom.

Answer 7

Everyone must die. Physical life is impermanent.
What is born must in the end cease to be. Even planets and suns have this as part of their nature.
However, death is not the end of consciousness, and I think this might be why Jesus played out the drama of his life like he did.
Now as to whether he died on the cross at the approximate age of 32 or 33 or not is another question. There is much physical evidence in Asian areas east of Judea that he survived the cross and lived for 50 more years to teach and guide humanity. The church in the west, which was mainly Roman after Emperor Constantine's time (250 years after Jesus) did not like this idea that he had survived the cross so they suppressed all the evidence that they could find and proceeded to put spin on any other evidence that still existed as myth or legend. Their aim was to make an incarnation of God out of Jesus in order to appear as the supreme religion of the world.
In history there are many examples of enlightened masters raising the dead and doing all the other miracles that Jesus is said to have done. A master yogi can raise others from the dead and can himself die and then turn up alive and well later on. There are many records of such things happening in places like India.
The early western Christians knew this and proceeded to spin Jesus' life as that of a God come down to earth so that people would not see him as just another enlightened human being, which to them would have put him on a par with the other known masters that had come before such as Buddha or Moses.
If people thought Jesus was only a man who had gained enlightenment rather than God come down to Earth to save humankind, they felt this would diminished the power of the church to gain converts. They wanted to appear to be the ONLY true religion.
If people thought that Jesus was a man, and that they could do what Jesus had done by their own good works and dedicated spiritual pracitices, then this would undermine the church's ability to dole out forgiveness and grace in Jesus' name for a price, which became a big money maker for the church.
So they made sure that the church taught that Christ was supreme, as in the only GOD incarnated on earth to save us all, and that you could not get saved or enlightened any other way except through him (with the church as the intermediary).
Ironically for the first 200 years after Jesus' time the Romans were busy burning early Christians at the stake and doing all manner of gratuitous violence to large numbers of them in public entertainment shows until Constantine decided that having one state religion would be better for him because the people whould be easier to control. S
Also, at that time most Christians could read and write, (unlike the average pagan Roman), and this was so because they needed to be able to read the stories and words of Jesus as part of their religious practices. Indeed, Christians were working as scribes and scholars throughout the Roman Empire already by Constantine's time. It was an ancient no-brainer for political expediency. The literate Christians were already in place running the beaurocracy of the empire so it made good sense to legitimize them in order to solidify and strengthen the mechanisms of the empire. Hence the Romans officially went [virtually] overnight from Pagans to Christians; and then in true Roman style they claimed to be the only true Christians.
The Catholic Church still feels this way, and many such as Dan Brown and others think that the church has locked away in vast secret vaults all the early evidence of Jesus' having not died on the cross in order to preserve this propaganda that they are the true church.
It is thought by many scholars that the Buddhist records of Jesus time spent as a student at the oldest Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas, that was found by the Russian linguist Nicolas Notovitch in the late 1800s in the library of the 2500 year old Buddhist monastery, were later stolen by agents of the Roman church and secreted away in the vaults at the Vatican for just this purpose, to hide the truth~ Others had seen these scolls a few years after Notovitch saw them but then they vanished, never to be seen again.

Answer 8

Natural causes?

Answer 9

The general Christian belief is that he died for the world's sins, so that whoever believes in Jesus would have eternal life through their belief in him.

Answer 10

Romans 5:8, "But God commendeth his love toward us,
in that, WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED
FOR US. Says, he died for us. More than that, he died for
us while we were sinners.