If Christians go to heaven when they die, why was it such a sacrifice for Jesus to die on the cross if he knew he would go to heaven. And besides if Jesus and God are the same surely he would not have felt any pain, being beyond anything human. Please discuss.
2007-12-29 12:18:41 · 17 answers · asked by Bruce 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
commonce - I do intend to read it. My wife and her family are all christians. It just makes me wonder sometimes. They say God is not responsible for the bad things that happen on earth, and yet he is responsible for, and to be thanked for all the good !?
2007-12-29 12:32:44 · update #1
>> If Christians go to heaven when they die, why was it such a
>> sacrifice for Jesus to die on the cross if he knew he would
>> go to heaven.
Because nobody goes to heaven (or hell) when they die. Read this:
http://www.amazingfacts.org/FreeStuff/BibleStudies/StudyGuides/tabid/105/ctl/ViewMedia/mid/453/IID/2-10/LNG/en/SC/R/3/Death/Default.aspx?7=Are-The-Dead-Really-Dead?
Hell is not a real place. Read this:
http://www.amazingfacts.org/FreeStuff/BibleStudies/StudyGuides/tabid/105/ctl/ViewMedia/mid/453/IID/2-11/LNG/en/SC/R/Default.aspx?7=Is-The-Devil-In-Charge-Of-Hell?
>> if Jesus and God are the same surely he would not have
>> felt any pain, being beyond anything human.
They aren't the same. They just have the same nature, goals, characters, and powers while in Heaven together. Jesus had to lay down His Divine Power (but not His Divine Authority) to become human. Thus, He felt everything we feel and suffered as we would suffer. Upon returning to Heaven, Jesus took up His Divine Power again -- but will keep His human form for all eternity.
God bless.
2007-12-29 12:35:35 · answer #1 · answered by ♫DaveC♪♫ 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
He had to die in human form to be the sacrifice for the human race. He also had to be perfect. So a normal person would not have made the cut. He felt pain. All humans feel pain. All humans also thirst. He said - and I quote," I thirst." Therefore he was human and felt pain. At the same time he was God.
He was the Word. Read this: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:1-2;&version=31;
2007-12-29 20:31:44 · answer #2 · answered by schwarzkopf4ever 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Of course Christ (God) knew He would return to Heaven. Think about it - God taking on the form of man in order to redeem back to Himself what mankind had lost through sin and willful disobedience. The only other alternative that I can see would have been for Him to say "Screw it all" and knock the earth out of its orbit and directly into the sun.
Good thing He didn't choose that route, huh? For Him to leave the Majesty of Heaven and come down here and do the job Himself is truly monumental in my opinion.
2007-12-29 20:31:17 · answer #3 · answered by Wired 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A) Christians don't go to heaven when they die. B) He was human, and so suffered as much as a human can. without food and sleep 48 hours. Flogged three times, then hung on the stake. It was not pleasant. He experienced separation from His Father also, as the sins of the world were placed on Him causing separation. And for the joy that was set before Him (your salvation, if you will accept it) He endured all that for you.
2007-12-29 20:25:41 · answer #4 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It was all in God's plan for Jesus to be born of the virgin mary..If Jesus didn't die on that cross, where do you think all of us would be today..Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins...See..That's why God allows suffering in us, to get us to come closer to Him..And now we have the Trinity, it'
s the Father, Son and Holy Ghost..all wrapped up into ONE.Not everyone is a christian.
2007-12-29 20:25:08 · answer #5 · answered by uncforever555 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Okay first of all Jesus is the son of God..
Second he suffered for all the sins that have and will be done. He has guaranteed my passage home. He was a gift from God. Not everyone went to heaven before Jesus. Only way into heaven now is through Christ.
Third... Read John chapter 17. that sums it up for me. He sacrificed himself for us. I am nothing but forever grateful.
2007-12-29 20:26:17 · answer #6 · answered by Times2 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Sorry but yahoo answers is really not going to give you very many facts. You really need to open the Big Book and ask God to show himself to you as to whether he is real or not. READ IT. You will get all the answers to your questions in there. Even if you have trouble understanding it at first just keep reading it. It might take you about six months or more of soul searching, but all the answers are in there waiting for you.
2007-12-29 20:26:06 · answer #7 · answered by commoncents 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
If Jesus didn't die for the sins of the world. None of us would have received salvation.Therefore, we would all have gone to Hell for eternity. Jesus' sacrifice was enormous! Also, people must remember he was fully God/fully man. Therefore, being crucified was just as painful as it would be for anybody else.
2007-12-29 20:30:45 · answer #8 · answered by paula r 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Jesus was as the "lamb slain before the foundation of the world."
For God so loved the world that he gave His only Son to breach the gap between God and man caused by our willful sin.
We had paradise and barfed it up for an apple of knowledge.
We gave our inheritance to Satan and only the sacrifice of Jesus Christ could atone us of our sin and purge our conscience.
Christ came in the form of a man and fully felt the burden of sin and took upon Himself the "sin of the world."
He did it out of love for us.
2007-12-29 20:24:36 · answer #9 · answered by Randy 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Watch the Mel Gibson movie, think about what Jesus had to suffer before He ascended. He is fully human and fully divine; yes, He felt the pain.
2007-12-29 20:22:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋