Why did God require his son to be tortured to death before he could forgive mankind?

Answer 1

Because if he died from old age, his death would have been relatively mundane. No one would consider that an act of martyrdom, which it HAD to be in order to leave a lasting impression. According to Christianity...Jesus SUFFERED...died, and was buried. He had to suffer because he was taking the punishment for our sins, so that we don't have to.

Personally...I think that's a bit too 'Whipping boy' for me. I think if you're going to forgive someone a sin (or a transgression)...it doesn't REQUIRE that the person be punished. They've already repented and asked forgiveness...isn't that enough?

But...in order for Jesus to have an impact and for Christianity to have the strength to become a powerful religion...his death had to happen dramatically, or people never would have remembered him.

Answer 2

"Why did God require his son to be tortured to death before he could forgive mankind?"

We don't know that God required any such thing. Just because the Bible says this does not mean it is the case.

If God is defined as love, than forgiveness is inherent in that quality, and the Crucifixion as justified in the Bible is unnecessary.

I do believe it happened, but not because God required it. I think it is more likely that Jesus required the Crucifixion of himself, as an issue of his own faith.

I think Jesus believed it was the only way to shock people into seriously considering what he preached. It was the only way to get people of intelligence to truly begin to question the weight of Judaic law and tradition that he was trying to reform.

Answer 3

He didn't. Read Ezekiel Chapter 18 - God was always willing to forgive offenses. The incarnation, death and resurrection of Christ enable mankind to attain union with God.

By the way, the whole Christianity = blood sacrifice thing is a complex myth that started with Augustine's views on Original Sin in the 4th century, which were reinterpreted by Anslem in the 11th, which were reinterpreted by the Reformers in the 16th, which were tempered by cheesey horror movies in the 1980's. None of it has any part in Christianity.

Answer 4

Back in the begining there had to be a blood sacrifice for sin. When Adam and Eve sinned it created a brink between God and man and Jesus was the blood sacrifice to create a bridge so that mankind,by choice could be saved ! Accepting Jesus as your personal lord and savior is the one and only way to cross over into heaven !

Answer 5

it is not an issue of "requirement" or "agreeing" to forgive mankind. Jesus as a guy did no longer prefer to be tortured yet having loose will, Jesus desperate to pass in the time of the crucifixion because of the fact's what his Father asked of him as a fashion to open the gates of heaven and forgive the sins of mankind. Jesus, being dependable to his Father, widespread the crucifixion as something that needed to be carried out. It become a sacrifice. He did no longer "require" his son to die yet "sacrificed" his son for all of mankind. plus, Jesus and God knew that the soreness and torture could purely be short-term and in a while he could be seated on the wonderful hand of his father.

Answer 6

Remember the passage: "The wages of sin is death". Well If you made a cake, you won't want it to be stomped on, would ya? Same thing here. Man sins. Must pay. Price: Death. That simple. What if someone else pays that price 4 u. Jesus enters the picture. Dies. Price paid. Man saved.

About the torture. God left it to man to kill him, and that was the way of man.

Answer's your question?

Answer 7

God did not require his son to be tortured, he knew that the people would though. He also gave them free-will and they could have chosen not too. Jesus btw, could have decided to not go through with it if he wanted to. His blood was needed because of its purity.

Hebrews 9:11-28 The Blood of Christ
11When Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say, not a part of this creation. 12He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. 13The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
15For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

16In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, 17because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living. 18This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. 19When Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. 20He said, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep." 21In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. 22In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

23It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence. 25Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

Answer 8

Well first God gave the Law to show what man would have to do to be forgiven........then he sent his son because by that time most men realized they could not keep the (entire) law......except the Pharisees who were busy deceiving themselves. Jesus took our punishment so we could be saved by grace and by just receiving him. People even have trouble doing that!

The whole thing we have to go through is to demonstrate God's Justice, Mercy and Love to the Devil and all the demons and angels who followed satan.........they accused God of being unfair when he sentenced them to eternal fire.............So God is allowing us to be participants in the great demonstration of what is truth and what is fiction. Ever believer that receives Christ by faith alone against all odds.......is another witness that satan's condemnation is just. Since God is love......he even loves satan enough to SHOW him what is what. Based on the book of Ephesians I think chapter 2.

Answer 9

According to christianity justice of God demand blood scrifice. Justice in christianity means, the person who commit sin shall not be punished and the innocent should be put to death. Is not that funny justice.

Answer 10

Because God said that if Adam ate of the tree of knowledge of good & evil, they would die.

So? The wages of sin (rebelling & disobeying Gods Word) is death.

So? We inherit the sin nature. And die spiritually when we purposely rebel against Gods Word. (Adam died spiritually when denied the Tree of Life; later died physcially.) So, when the sin nature kicks in & we die spiritually, Jesus said that to see the Kingdom of God we must be born again (John3). That Jesus would have to be lifted up like Moses lifted up the bonze snake. So? Who would look at Him would be saved. So, Whosoever believeth in Him will not perish but receive eternal life.

It is only righteous that by one man, we inherit the sin nature then sin & die first spiritually then physically. It is only righteous that the righteousness of one man who shed His blood for remission of our sin (The Sinless Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.) And who raised from the dead because He is without sin; We who believe in Him will also be raised up like He raised up on resurrection day complete.

So? We get the sin nature & curse of sin from the first Adam & receive everlasting life from the victory & sinlessness of the last Adam who raised from the dead victorious over death.