I admire Jesus's contribution. SO why the mostly spoken contribution of His is that died on the cross ?

Question

He was incredible phenomenon and i don't understand who and why deleted this my question five minutes ago.

Answer 1

i think it depends on who is speaking,
if you asked me, i would say his most important message, and contribution, was when he was quoted as saying "if you can do nothing else, then love"
that is the message i get from him, love, acceptance, forgiveness, and that there are many sheep from different flocks (which to me represents all of the religions, and those who are not in an organized religion, we are all children of God)

Answer 2

Actually, Jesus' contribution would have been considered pretty mediocre had he not died. Some of his ideas have been shown to be incorrect since then, or contingently correct (dependent upon narrow assumptions). Further, many of his ideas are not actually his, although he tells them nicely. Some are bad ideas. Had he not died, he would have disappeared into history, maybe a footnote in Josephus who reports twenty other people wandering Judea just like Jesus at the time. Messiah was an occupation just like televangelist today.

You should read his critics more. What Jesus did add to the dialog, although he was not unique in this, was the observation that if you are going to live in a cooperative, essentially tribal, society, then you must completely bond with one another. The extreme form of this is the emotion love. He did not anticipate autonomy oriented societies like today. He had two models available, control models like the Empire and cooperative models like the tribe. Further, this cooperation could not end at the boundary of the actual tribe for we are all neighbors and therefore part of the tribe.

The importance of his death is that it set in motion the belief he was a god. Had he not been considered a god, he would have disappeared because his writings were mostly not unique in the region. However, this cooperative mode of existence is very powerful. Look at a championship basketball team and you will see a good analogue. Without cooperation, such as assists, basketball degenerates quickly. Football, however, is dependent upon control and baseball autonomy. You would never see a baseball coach screaming at a left fielder to run for the ball. Even if the fielder could hear, the distraction would mean he would miss the ball. You have to truly trust people for autonomous systems to work. Likewise, in football, if anyone steps out of line and tries to be creative, you get a broken play. The coach is Imperator.

Jesus lived in a simpler world and a much worse world. Read through his advice without being a Christian and you will begin noticing unsound ideas. Ideas that, if produced by an undergraduate, would result in a nice basis for a lecture, but if produced by a God become policy.

Answer 3

Jesus' teachings are incredible and as believers we are to follow Jesus- however the greatest thing is the fact that we can have a personal relationship with Him, and the only way that us sinners can have that is through the crucifixion. Without that all His teachings would be for naught, because we cannot follow them without the Holy Spirit.

Answer 4

I don't know since an equally important aspect is that He rose from the dead confirming His deity and the supernatural significance of His atoning death on the cross.

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Answer 5

I don't understand either why they would delete it,
good question,
God is good,
and I admire his contributions too

Answer 6

I don't either! It is a good question. I am a Christian so I think is dying on the cross is the most important fact, but his teachings are beautiful.

Answer 7

For the same reason that some of my questions get deleted, there are clowns everywhere who just want to spread hate.

Answer 8

I love him and he died on the cross for your and mine sins,
HE IS REAL AND ALIVE