Heaven or Hell?
2007-12-23 06:15:44 · 52 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Samual: Yes, I noticed that.
2007-12-23 06:20:01 · update #1
if all man's sins were forgiven then heaven.
2007-12-23 06:18:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
In the first place, people were tied to the cross. Nails driven into the palms would tear through the flesh in a few hours, leaving the hands mangled but free to fall.
In the second place, this was all part of God's cosmic drama, and some people had to play the part of the bad guys. Can you imagine God saying "I made you play this part but you are going to be punished for all eternity anyway."? What kind of God would say or do that? Cruel is what.
2007-12-23 06:20:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
That would depend upon how they reacted to the :earthquakes, and graves opening, at His death, seeing him after His resurrection, etc. It would seem that the Centurion, and those with him, mentioned in Matthew 27:54 got the point, acknowledged Christ, and were probably thus saved and so went to Heaven. A Centurion was about equal in rank to a Captain in our Army, and those with him were probably his squad of seargent, privates, and such. As such, the Centurion probably gave the order to nail Christ to the cross, and "they that were with him" are probably the ones who did the actual nailing. They seem to be saved, and thus Heaven bound.
2007-12-23 06:26:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yeah yeah. Blame the common worker. That is all a soldier is, just a worker. They are the ones who did the nailing. Its a job. "You or me" is the way they had to think about it....."and I would rather it be you".
They did their job as they were told. Judge the ones who gave the order(and that would be the Jews). The Romans were just doing what the locals demanded of government in the area.
Some things are "just not so" clear cut.
Besides, what difference would it make to you? None. You are not gonna meet them.
2007-12-23 06:24:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
He went there to be the sacrificial Lamb for our sins. So really we all nailed him the cross. If the men that nailed him repented themselves they would be forgiven.
Nailing Jesus to the cross never sent them to hell, rejecting Christ did. Everyone has the choice to receive or deny, not just these men.
2007-12-23 06:28:18 · answer #5 · answered by Timothy M 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
heaven if they understood they did the wrong thing. One of the soldiers the New Testament says, understood he nailed the Messiah to the cross and repented. What the soldiers did was a physical manifestation of what we do every day mentally.
2007-12-23 06:26:34 · answer #6 · answered by timekiller 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
As Jesus was dying on the cross, He looked towards Heaven and said " Father forgive them, for they know not what they do "
2007-12-23 06:18:41 · answer #7 · answered by Gerry 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Only God can read hearts, He will judge. Also do your history work, Jesus was killed in Rome by Romans, at that time people were nailed to a stake not a cross, and left to bleed to death.
2007-12-23 06:21:54 · answer #8 · answered by Bruce C 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Depends on whether they accepted Him into their heart after that. In a sense, we all nailed Jesus to that cross for our sins. Only the ones who didn't let Him "take the wheel" of their lives are going to hell.
2007-12-23 06:22:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
since there was no single Jesus figure...and Christ is an archetype....and the death narratives are Myths....albeit reflecting a historical form of putting people to death....It is hard to answer your question.
By the way..Heaven and Hell are not places or destinations but an understanding of the "here and now" - and we must accept responsibility for our own actions for it is how we interact with others that determines where we "are" in the present.
2007-12-23 06:21:14 · answer #10 · answered by AS 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Romans nailed thousands and thousands of Jews including Jesus to the cross, so what do you think.
2007-12-23 06:19:45 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋