If Jesus was so powerful, then what about these 3 things right here?

Question

1) How come when they crucified him, he didn't even defend himself and set himself free and ward them all off? I heard Jesus had God's power, and that would've meant he could've taken down all those men who put that crown of thorns on his head.

2) Why didn't he free himself from the big nails banged into his hands and feet? If Jesus was all-powerful, then he could've easily freed himself from that torment, he could've taken that crown of thorns off his head, and made all the bleeding stop and the suffering go away.

3) Before he died on the cross, why did he say to God
"Why have you forsaken me!?" If he was all-powerful, then he wouldn't have felt the need to ask that.



BTW, I worry that Heaven might not have the exact same things and experiences that I can have and experience right here and now on Earth. Better enjoy life now while I still can!

Answer 1

He could have easily refused to suffer, but where would you and I be? He sacrificed Himself for us.........he wasn't a victim.

You have no idea what heaven is like.........read the book on heaven by Randy Alcorn.

Answer 2

You're right. Jesus COULD HAVE done all the things you said. He could have freed Himself, but HE CHOSE NOT TO.
Jesus didn't come down to earth to save Himself, HE CAME TO SAVE US.
He could have done all the things you are asking about, but what would be the point? He came to die for OUR sins, so that we may have eternal life. HE DID IT FOR YOU AND ME. HE SACRIFICED HIMSELF. No one could have touched Him if all He wanted to do was to escape from a horrible death. But, He came to earth for that very reason. To die.
When Jesus said, "Why have you forsaken Me?", he said it because all the world's sins were laid upon Him, and the Father couldn't even look at Him because of it. HE FELT ALONE, like the Father had left Him.
If He WASN'T ALL POWERFUL, HE WOULDN'T HAVE DEFEATED DEATH ON THE CROSS! I think defeating death is a pretty powerful thing, don't you? HE ISN'T DEAD ANYMORE! Haven't you heard? HE HAS RISEN!! And is sitting at the Father's right hand. He is coming again to judge the living and the dead, and when He does, you will find out just how powerful He is!! "EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, AND EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD." (whether you want to or not!)

Answer 3

Hey, the way you approach this information is incorrect... but thats ok, most of us do until we learn otherwise.
A: Jesus Had to be crucified - It is the reason he came.
Jesus was not here to show off his infinite power, he had to restrict it. He had to do things on this level just as a man. This was so that all of mankind could be redeemed by his climactic life and death on the cross. Because he rose from the dead 3 days later we know he truly conquered death.

See, the reason he was sent was to redeem form eternal death because of our sin. God went to the most desperate measure to bring anyone who would follow and believe back to Himself. He loves us in a way we can't grasp. We have all fallen away, and it takes the work of Christ to protect and save us from our deathly fate. So if he did stop, he would have not completed the reason he came, which would have been imposible, because Christ is not capable of failing, but he is capable of feeling.

He could of ended it and did not... He just took it...
Thats why many Christians say "I am a great sinner, but Christ is the great savior"
It is all about LOVE. God's love. Like nothing of this world except for those who you find that get it from him. ( Christians )

Answer 4

1 & 2) The answer to your first two points is the same.

Jesus did not have God's power:
Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. (Philipians 2:5-7, NASB)

John 14:10 -- Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.

And Jesus answered your question, at the time of his arrest, when he spoke to Peter:
"Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?" (Matthew 26:53-54)

3) This is a good question. Jesus was dying on the cross for our sins. Though he lived a sinless life, yet he had to die with our sins upon him. Therefore, just before he died, God put the sins of the world upon him, in the same manner in which the high priest of Israel put the sins of Israel upon the Azazel goat (Scapegoat) on the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16). At that moment, God, who cannot abide with sin, turned from Jesus, until he was dead.

Response to your "BTW,":

1 Corinthians 2:9 -- But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Hebrews 11:16 -- Instead, they were longing for a better country--a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

Revelation 21:7 -- He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.

A pauper with a gold piece believes himself rich, until he sees the mountain of gold he could have had.

Answer 5

1. Because Jesus Died for our sins.
2. Because he choose to die for our sins.
3. (ref.Matthew 27:45), to call attention to Psalm 22:1 and that he was fulfilling the prophesy. Also, we have no capacity to appreciate the utterly horrific experience of having the sins of the world put upon the Lord Jesus as He hung, in excruciating pain, from that cross.
The physical pain was immense.
The spiritual one must have been even greater.
That shows us clearly how much God loves us.

Answer 6

He didn't defend himself or free himself, because he was dieing for our sins. He could have easily freed himself- that was not his purpose of coming to earth. In one weak moment before in died- the pain was so intense, he did ask God why he had forsaken/ or left him.

As far as Heaven not being what YOU want, I used to think that way to, that is worldly thinking, and this world will pass away, when we die. I'm enjoying and experiencing this life here and now, but I realize there is more to life after this one. I'll be enjoying that life also! :)

Answer 7

1. The Jews back in the day would sacrifice animals to God in order to ask forgiveness for their sins (and original sin). Jesus was meant to be the ultimate sacrifice to God so that all sins, present, past, and future would be forgiven. He could have stopped it, but he knew it was God's will that he be crucified.

2. Really the same as #1.

3. While Jesus was God, he was also Human. That's one of the mysteries in the Catholic church. The human part of him was wondering why he was suffering so much. God left him alone while he was on that cross. It was the human side of Christ asking why he was foresaken, not the God side.

It's all a matter of free will. God could have made Jesus do it, but Jesus did what God wanted him to because of his faith, even though it lead to intense suffering.

Answer 8

because that was how it needed to be. He had to die to be punished for the sins of the world. Only he could have done it because he was the only person on earth who never sinned. But when they nailed him to the cross, all the sin of mankind went to him, and he became so sinful that God turned his face away. That is why he said that. Then Jesus actually went to hell for us, but he came back and now he is in heaven at the right hand of God.

And don't worry, heaven is much much much better. In heaven, you never tire of anything and there is constant feasting even though you don't feel hungry or full, but it is good food. also there is constant praising of God and everyone is content and it is also beautiful and the streets are paved with gold. Talk to some christians if you know any, or go down to your local church and meet people there and ask them questions

Answer 9

Christ was also a man. His story on the cross also represents his humanistic side. Remember he prayed to god before he was crucified and asked that God give him strength to endure what was ahead of him. He had no desire to come off the cross. I've always been taught that at some point while he was being crucified he literally felt all the sins he was dying for and since sin is separation from God, even though God had never left, for that moment he was unable to feel his connection to God because he was paying the price for our sins. I hope this makes sense.

Answer 10

Heaven is so much more better than here. Eye hasn't seen, nor ear heard, it hasn't even so much as dawned on man what God has prepared for those that love Him.
This place is okay for now, but there's a better home waiting for us that believe.
The others have answered concerning Jesus. #3 He quoted from the Psalms. He came for that very purpose.

Answer 11

1 and 2: He didn't resist because He came to Earth for the specific purpose of going to the cross. To have resisted or intervened would have put Him at odds with God, which would make God schizophrenic.

3. The paradox of Jesus' nature is that He was both God and man. I can't adequately explain that, no one can, but it shouldn't surprise anyone that an infinite being causes paradoxes when you try to explain his existence an nature. Anyway, being man, Jesus experienced despair. He was also quoting Psalm 22:1, identifying with the despair of David, His earthly anscestor.