when he chose to come and be the blood sacrifice required for our sins and free us from Satans hold????
2007-10-28 14:37:55 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Starlight even Jesus said that they were blind and that friendship with the world is
enmity(WAR) with God!!!!
2007-10-28 16:12:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you realize how silly that sounds?
1) the idea of being under "satans hold" is invented in the NT... it creates a problem to be solved, that did not exist before this point.
2) blood sacrifice. God would never accept a human sacrifice. and the blood was never the point. the repentance was.
3) asserting that God would not, or could not forgeive without a blood sacrifice, is blasphemy. this is saying in essence, that God is either not omnipotent, or is essentially evil.
4) are you asserting that Jesus was in fact not the messiah of Judaism? because this is not the nature of the messiah of Judaism, this is the nature of the demigods of pagan beliefs.
2007-10-28 21:49:50 · answer #2 · answered by RW 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Apparently Jesus didn't care much about the Native Americans, the Australian Aborigines, or the Chinese (to name but a few), who never heard of Him before the missionaries came along. Which to me argues that honoring Jesus is not that important in the grand scheme of things -- otherwise the Christian God would have been MUCH better at getting out the memo.
2007-10-28 21:42:19 · answer #3 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
He died in vain. Blood sacrifice for salvation was never a requirement of Judaism, and Satan has no power of his own -- he does only what God tells him to do.
Central to the Jewish response to suffering is a staunch rejection of the belief in its redemptive power. According to Judaism there are no ennobling qualities in pain…. The belief in the redemptive quality of suffering is a profoundly Christian concept. In Christianity, the suffering servant, the crucified Christ, brings atonement for the sins of mankind through his own sacrifice and torment. The message: Without suffering there can be no redemption. According to Christianity, if Jesus had not suffered and died on the cross, mankind would still be damned. Suffering is therefore extolled in the New Testament: “And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces hope” (Rom. 5:3-4). “If we are being afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation; if we are being consoled, it is for your consolation, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are also suffering” (2 Cor. 1:6). Indeed, Paul even made suffering an obligation, encouraging the fledging Christians to “share in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus” (2 Tim. 2:3).
In Judaism, however, suffering is anything but redemptive. It leads to a tortured spirit and a pessimistic outlook on life. It scars our psyches and brings about a cynical consciousness, devoid of hope. Suffering causes us to dig out the insincerity of the hearts of our fellows and to be envious of other people’s happiness. If individuals do become better people as a result of their suffering, it is despite the fact that they suffered, not because of it. Ennoblement of character comes through triumph over suffering, rather than its endurance.
Man’s mission was never to make peace with suffering and death, but to abolish them from the face of the earth for all eternity by joining God as a junior partner in creation. By studying medicine and offering aid to people in need, we live up to our highest calling of having been created in the divine image. The atheist doctor who struggles to cure AIDS is infinitely more in tune with the Jewish response to suffering than the minister of religion who tells his flock that suffering is part of the divine plan. The sinning businessman who may have never stepped into a synagogue but makes a loan to a colleague to save him from bankruptcy is more in tune with the Jewish response to suffering than the Rabbi who seeks to give a rationalization for why children die of leukemia…. Our role as humans is not to give meaning to aberrations, but combating them and to healing wounds.
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2007-10-29 00:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes an all-powerful God sent his son to sacrifice himself in order to redeem mankind. The thing is God created man to be sinful in order to have them redeemed. Why didn't God just create people to be perfect in the first place? Why did he even bother having his son come to earth and sacrifice himself? Does God like guilt trips?
The logic behind God and Jesus story is very flawed.
2007-10-28 21:43:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
He died in order to fulfill a Hebrew prophesy. It was ill conceived and hugely pain full, but not great. His followers founded a religion on it.The time was ripe for something better.
2007-10-28 21:49:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
What about the billions of people that are not followers of Jesus..and have no intention of doing so...you are narrow mindedly right ? they are all wrong ?
Again, question what you have been told, as you would any story..cos it is in black and white it is not the whole truth..
2007-10-28 21:47:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Jesus never existed. (1)
But if he did, let's look at the claims. He suffered (if he did not negate the pain with his supernatural powers) for a few hours and then got to be the ruler of everything for eternity. Can I make that "sacrifice"?
2007-10-28 21:43:25 · answer #8 · answered by neil s 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
we never needed a blood sacrifice; that's a pretty barbaric system.
think about it: who was the Christian satan emulating in the first place? (assuming these were real characters)
2007-10-28 21:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
If the "world" did realize it, then ALL would believe, but they don't.
Have a blessed day.
2007-10-29 00:56:41 · answer #10 · answered by wyomugs 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋