It's not a big deal if you don't stay dead is it?
2007-09-22 07:56:50 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is hard to consider the resurrection of a being who can't die as a sacrifice.
2007-09-22 08:00:34 · answer #1 · answered by atheist 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
He was tortured!!!!!!!! They beat him with a cat of nine tails 49 times, hanked his skin off, dug thorns deep into his head til while the blood made huge puddles on the ground and covered his whole body, spat on him, pulled his beard and hair out with their bare hands, mocked him, took his clothes off, then after all that torture, with his blood quickly flowing out of his body, he had to carry his own cross up the hill til he couldn't anymore becuase he was too weak. At the top of the hill, they drove nails through his hands and feet onto the cross, then put the cross upright. You know how hard that would have been to breath?? Everytime he wanted to breath he had to push himself up by his feet alone and with them being nailed to the cross, that would have been extremyly painful!!!!!!!! Now do you think that that wasn't a sacrifice?? would you have done that just so a bunch of sinners could go to Heaven when you didn't deserve to die like that????
It was more than a BIG DEAL!!!!! Even though he rose again the third day (which he had to or less his death would have been meaningless and we'd all still be bound for Hell without a way out), it was torture for Him to have to go through all that. It was a very, very slooooowwww death. Now tell me you could do that and it not be a sacrifice!!
2007-09-22 08:06:48 · answer #2 · answered by ~Living4HIM~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't actually die. He was given a drink of wine mixed with gall (a venom) which made it seem as though he were dead. Even Pilate couldn't believe he had "died" so quickly. Death by crucifixion took days.
Here's the big misconception - as far as the gospels are concerned, resurrection did not mean literally bringing a dead person back to life. It meant that an excommunicate was brought back into the fold. Jesus was an excommunicate from the Jewish faith, and had to be "brought back to life" to fulfill the prophecies of Isaiah in order to perpetuate the myth of his being the Messiah.
2007-09-22 08:06:19 · answer #3 · answered by ReeRee 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The payment was not staying dead. The payment was for God's wrath satisfied on the cross. When Jesus said, "my God My God why have you forsaken me?" in reference to Psalm 22, all of God's wrath poured on Jesus on the cross when Jesus took on all sins of the world. Then Jesus said, "It is finished," while looking straight at his people meaning the fine's been paid for and satisfied. We broke God's laws by lying stealing, blashpheyming God's name, and Jesus paid the fine. Then Jesus gave up his own life to fulfill the prophecies in Isaiah 53. The resurrection is the vindication of Jesus as God and the truth of the Bible.
2007-09-22 08:05:12 · answer #4 · answered by Sam L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The "death" part of Jesus' sacrifice was really just tip of the iceberg.
Beaten within inches of your life, then forced to carry a large beam across the town, nailed to the beam and hung their to slowly die while enemies mock you and most of your friends are no where in sight. To top it off, you gather the courage to actually forgive everyone and ask God to forgive them as well.
Bet you don't have even give one millionth of a percent of the love it took to do this in YOUR heart.
2007-09-22 08:09:14 · answer #5 · answered by Linda J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're forgetting what he suffered before his death. One of the purposes for his being sent to earth by his Father as a human was to prove Satan a Liar and show that a perfect human could serve God faithfully under the most trying of circumstances, something Adam failed to do.
That done, he could present the value of his shed blood in our behalf before his Father Jehovah.
2007-09-22 08:02:46 · answer #6 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His resurrection was the "biggest deal" in all of history. Without that there would be no point in Christianity. Jesus Christ, as God and man, took all of our sins upon himself during his crucifiction and suffered the punishment we deserve, because there's no way that we can pay for them ourselves. The wages of sin is death and we can only die once. He, however, could die for us and come back to life because he is God. The rules for Him are different than for us.
2007-09-22 08:05:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
16 For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent;
17 But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I;
18 Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—
19 Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men.
2007-09-22 09:03:39 · answer #8 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus ressuructed so we may be ressuructed too, right? Becuase when were in sin were dead (not physically, but spiritually) but when we turn to Jesus we will live.
2007-09-22 08:03:27 · answer #9 · answered by remmus2k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a good thing Jesus made this sacrifice for us and you, because if he didn't you would be dead by now for your blaspheming...........that is the truth whether you choose to believe or not.
2007-09-22 08:05:13 · answer #10 · answered by WHOISTHEPUPPETMASTER? 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋