God couldn't just say "I forgive you"?
If we are sinners because he gave us free will, wasn't it his choice to give us free will and make us all sinners from time to time. Why do we need to be forgiven for what HE did to US?
2007-09-22 04:58:50 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-09-22 05:07:22 · answer #1 · answered by pyro 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
God could, would, should? WHY? Who are we to question Him? He is perfect. He can't even see us thru the sin how can He forgive it?
God foresaw the future as to what it would "TAKE" to bring our sinful selves back into fellowship with Him.
Shame shame on us! without His shedding of His blood there was NO remission of our sins.
We are still a hardheaded people. We will barely skim into Heaven.
Actually, son, we are sinners because we did/do not want to obey God. We sin, we must be redeemed (bought back). ONLY the BLOOD of His Son will cleanse us. It has to asked for ... we are forgiven THRU the BLOOD.
FOR God SO loved the World that He gave His only begotten Son.
Love is the key
2007-09-22 12:36:06 · answer #2 · answered by deed 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Have you ever heard of someone tell a loved one they would die for them? Like a husband for his wife or a parent for their child. This is the same type of concept. It's about sacrifice. To be willing to die for someone is no simple task. This is to show how much He loves us. He loves us so much He died for us. How can you not respect and love that?
He did not do this to us. He gave us free will. Yes that is true. However, we have the free will to either follow Him or not. Now we all sin, but not all sins are graded equally. Some sins such as murder and adultery an individual has to go out of their way to do. I can easily not murder or committ adultery because I don't believe in doing those types of things. We are not sinners because He gave us free will. We are sinners because we use our free will to sin. Do you see the difference? He does not make our choices. We make our own choices. The best thing to do is follow His plan. We will still sin, but faith in Jesus will save us.
2007-09-22 12:09:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi.
God didn't want to make us robots and gave us free will. It's not His fault that we sin. He love man, gave him a choice. And after Adam and Even sinned, God still made a way for us by sending his son. So I think God is really good.
If Jesus hadn't come to pay the penalty for our sins, there is no forgiveness of sins because God is a God of justice. The penalty must be paid. Forgiveness of sin cannot be given arbitrarily. Legally, it's not right.
Hope it helps.
2007-09-22 12:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To the first question, He couldn't because it would go against his character. He is just. Without shedding of blood there is no remission for sins. He couldn't just say I forgive you, because there would be no justice. Someone must pay the price. Christ was the only one who could due to his nature of being both God and man. Only the perfect sacfice could make possible the forgiveness I now enjoy.
To your second question, that is just really bad logic. If we have free-will we are the direct cause of our current fallen condition. You could go back to cause after cause till you get to God but God is not the one who directly put us in our current state. You would never use the kind of logic you are using in any practical situation. For example if someone committed suicide by jumping off the bridge would you blame the bridge maker? If someone murdered would you blame the maker of the weapon? It's just bad logic.
2007-09-22 12:09:20 · answer #5 · answered by GrizzlyMint 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Especially if you understand the types and shadows of things to come from the Old Testament.
In the Old Testament, God said this:
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.
Though the blood of animals was never really sufficient to make atonement, God was setting up the final sacrifice for all sin through His Son.
God could have just sai9d, "I forgive you", but He didn't. He started this need for trusting Him without seeing Him. One reason why I can tell you is that He doesn't want everybody. He never wanted some people.
He pick the one's who He wants and gives them the ability, understanding, proof, and doesn't give it to others.
So God made things, and made them a certain way according to what He wants.
2007-09-22 12:11:08 · answer #6 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The forgiveness is for disobeying. Free will does not inherently mean being sinful. Using the free will to disobey would be sin...
But, back to the question, the idea that a G-d would create a forgiveness system that required the shedding of blood, then turn around and tell us we should "turn the other cheek", "forgive them 7 times 70 times", along with countless other examples of how we should behave BUT G-d cannot behave that way towards us makes me suspect that something is amiss in all the translations.
2007-09-22 12:05:27 · answer #7 · answered by Don't Try This At Home 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
No, it makes no sense.God need not sacrifice anyone, he just says be and it is.As for what he did to us?That's not a fair statement.We all have be given a criterion to know right from wrong,we are not animals we make our own choices....Thank God he forgives sins or we would all burn in hell.God is beyond be questioned about why he chooses to let us sin.
2007-09-22 12:22:55 · answer #8 · answered by Conservative 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are two thoughts here that don't make why blood sacrifice and that of his son were needed for forgiveness, a simple I forgive you if you accept would have worked as well.
The onther thing is why make free will about good and sin/evil. it could have been very easily choose me or not, either way is fine. For example when we propose marriage the options are live with me or live without me, not live with me or be burned forever.
2007-09-22 12:06:33 · answer #9 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think it would have made more sense if he gave us free will and then we were all just accountable for what we did. Why should Jesus have to die for our sins when he didn't do anything?
If you ask me, that's a really bad way to be a role model because it teaches humanity to use a scapegoat.
"Man, we're really bad people! I know, let's kill someone who didn't do anything we did to attone for our bad behaviour. Then we can get right back to the business of being sinful!"
2007-09-22 12:09:07 · answer #10 · answered by Kailee 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Read the Old Testament to see why and when things went the way they went. Jesus was given to us as a sacrafice (because there used to be a 'sin sacrafice'). Well humans just kept getting worse, so we needed Jesus.
Could God say he forgives, sure, he does all the time. But the relationship you have with God/Jesus is what helps you to try not to sin. Without that we continue to just do our own thing without thought of change.
2007-09-22 12:06:07 · answer #11 · answered by free2praise76 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋