The sacrifice had to be equal. One for all.
2007-12-28 07:18:21 · 14 answers · asked by Tom C 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Jesus was not like us because he was perfect. He did not sin, and he walked in love. Our main goal as Christians is to strive to be more like him. He stood in the gap for us in front of his father God and made the ultimate sacrifice for us, his life. The sacrifice was equal in that he was a human being made in the image of God as we all were
2007-12-28 07:32:14 · answer #1 · answered by Eden's Mom 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Whatever historical Jesus might have existed is debatable. Jesus was a very common name in the area at the time, but whether or not a religious Jesus existed at all at the time is questionable. What is certain, is that the Jesus archetype was influenced by many previous religious archetypes, Krishna of Hinduism being a certainty, just as Judaism was influenced by the early pantheistic and polytheistic religious archetypes.
While the Bible has some good guidelines in it, and some disturbing, barbaric ones(products of the barbaric culture from which it came) it just can't be taken in a specific sense in any particular mode of thinking. Though of course people do, because most need, and I don't blame them for it, a strict structure to their life to keep them from losing it. This can obviously be seen as religion is, and always has been, based on little more than culture, around 3/4 of the global population will carry on the beliefs of their parents religioustiy in some format or denomination, Christianity is only the predominant religion in our culture, others have their own traditions and archetypes, many as I have said, have directly influenced newer monotheistic religions that have came about.
This is more of a religious question, not a philosophical one.
2007-12-28 15:39:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The sacrifice had to be superior to us. We are not equal to God, nor God the Son, nor the Holy Spirit. Otherwise why would we need Him?
We haven't the ability to pay for our sins so God provided salvation by His grace for you and I. Equality wasn't in the picture.
The Messiah was, and is not one of us and with that He was able to carry the salvation of the world onto the cross and beyond.
He conquered death. No one here can do that.
2007-12-28 15:50:11 · answer #3 · answered by the old dog 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He was a baby. He was human. He was flesh. He was one of us in the sense that he was human and he experienced what we all experienced.
But he wasn't one of us in the way that we sin. We were different in that category.
He died for us because had this unsinful heart of all humans and he was there to prove something to all of us.
2007-12-28 16:12:49 · answer #4 · answered by My Name Doesn't Fit Here 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he wasn't one of us, then he wasn't equal to one of us. He was the perfect person. He didn't sin once even though he was tempted just as much as us. Because we sin and are imperfect.
2007-12-28 15:21:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He was made in the similtude of man (like the word similiar). He did not have the fallen Adamic nature that we have.
2007-12-28 15:25:03 · answer #6 · answered by John D. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your logic is flawed. Jesus was both man and God and He died for us, whether we believe that or not.
2007-12-28 16:25:16 · answer #7 · answered by Fernella13 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we can never be equal with a divine God.
He died for us to redeem our sins.
2007-12-28 21:25:46 · answer #8 · answered by oscar c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Anselm's "Cur Deus Homo" and apply to statement of the Council of Chalcedon to your querie.
2007-12-28 15:54:44 · answer #9 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
without jesus, we had the entire wrath of god waiting for us to be poured out on us to last an eternity. he drained it all out so we wont have to face it ourselves. *ouch* really
2007-12-28 15:22:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋