About Jesus.....to only those who know the bible like the back of your head please?

Question

I'm just curious......How did Jesus dying and being resurrected save us from our sins? Please explain in detail.....I'm really not that bright.

We still sin.....and we still get in trouble......so how are we saved from our sins?
I'm serious. No rude answers please.
Thanks

Another question: Jesus was a human sacrifice to end ALL human sacrifices? Am I right? *_*?

Answer 1

The whole sacrifice system of the old testament shows you how the sacrifice for our sins had to be a perfect unblemished lamb. That is why the bible calls Jesus our "passover lamb" and the "lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world". We are all born with an evil human nature and as Isaiah said, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Only a perfect man could shed his blood and pay for the sins of mankind once and for all. No man fits that bill so God did what man could not. He came to earth in the form of a man just to die for us to pay for OUR sins. In this He also displayed His great love for mankind because you see, God IS love.
As far as why we still sin. We don't become perfect people at the moment we accept Jesus as our Savior. We become alive in Him like a woman becomes pregnant. We have new life in Him but we need to grow into maturity as a Christian. We weren't made perfect when we were saved, we now have a chance to be forgiven of our sins, past - present and future if we repent of them. That's why the apostle John stresses the fact that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive our sins. We are not automatically sinless now but must be honest about our sins and be truly sorry for doing them in order to be forgiven of them. Non-Christians don't have forgiveness of their sins because there is "no other name under heaven by which we can be saved". They haven't entered into the new covenant with Jesus.
But back to us, it is a growing process. We fall, we confess our sins, we are right with Him again and we learn from our mistakes. Slowly as time goes by, we find that we don't do a lot of the old sins we used to do anymore. This is a testamony not only to ourselves, but to others that God truly is real and that we do follow the true way, which is faith in Jesus, our living Savior. I hope this helps. It took me many years to understand exactly what the gospel is and all this about sin, too. You show a sincere and beautiful heart by the fact that you are seeking it out.

Answer 2

Not Him being resurrected saved us form our sins, Him dying at the cross was for us.

His resurrection was His last visit on Earth in person form.

But i know what you mean about we still sin, when we are baptised all our sins go away,after that we need to confess to priests ect.. or ask God himself for forgiveness.

I think He saved us as humans if that makes sense.


mq :)

Answer 3

Being a Christian is not a license to sin just beacause Jesus said "we would be forgiven".

We are forgiven in Heaven for our sins after we die, but not during our life on Earth.

And only then if we accept the ways that he prescribed for us to live our lives. For a brief summary of his ideology Read the "Sermon on the mount" Matthew chapter 5 and Luke chapter 6

Essentially, the lesson he conveyed for his last 3 years of life was : "Do for others as you would have others do for you"......The golden rule.

When he was crucified he asked god to let the blood he shed cleanse all of our souls, as long as we believe it would.

Accept Jesus as our saviour and he would reward us in heaven, but again only if we live the way he wanted us to live.

Answer 4

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death

We are all sinners. Jesus is the only person in history to never have sinned.
He paid for our sins. He is the only person that could have done that.
He rose from the dead proving that He was God (trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit).
If you believe that His blood washes away your sins, you have the golden ticket to heaven. Its that simple.
If we did not have Jesus as a savior, we would all be headed for hell.

Answer 5

The wages of sin is death,if we die for our own sins we would not be resurrected. But Jesus being immortal only He can over come death. When we die to ourselves and we put on Christ, He will give us eternal life, while he paid the price of death for us.

Answer 6

I've read the Bible cover to cover several times and know the synoptic gospels very well. I've also spent years in an intentional christian community in deep study and prayer but I'm honestly still confused at times. Sorry I couldn't be of more help but you might ask someone in the clergy to help.

PS As I shave my head daily I actually do know the back of my head very well :-)

Answer 7

I'm glad we can use this forum for serious life issues.
You bring up the two key things that are central to the issue of salvation. Not life and death, but death and life.
You must go back to the time of Jesus and understand that at the time there was only Jew and Gentile, "believer" and un-believer, God loving and gods loving.
The greastest fear that permeated EVERYTHING was death for when you died...........ahh, you were dead meat. The fear of death and the dying was written about everywhere.
Jesus message was not just about how to have "life to the fullest", but that there is life after death. There is more to ourselves than flesh and blood, but we have a soul. This soul is from the hand of God and it will be everlasting to everlasting. Throughout Scripture Jesus reinforces this concept, but the only way to ensure that what He was saying was not a lie was to PROVE IT! Thus, after a humiliating, tortuous death on the cross and 3 days "in the grave", Jesus was resurrected to life by the power of the Holy Spirit that is God.
Jesus proved God's Word about life after death by his own example and was witnessed by hundreds of people as Scripture confirms.
We are all sinners in God's eyes and deserve only death and hell for eternity. But God loves us, each one of us so much, that He will give you life eternal for the price of one thing - "BELIEVE on my Son, Jesus Christ, that what He did was for you that you may have eternal life - with Me!"

Answer 8

Lev 5:5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these [things], that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that [thing]:


Lev 5:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.





apparently his execution is a supplication for this law.

Answer 9

Knew the Bible well. Was fundamentalist Christian for 21 years. Eventually found research that Church denies or ignores that Christ is a spin-off of earlier pagan dying saviour gods from cultures nearby eg Horus, Dionysus.

Answer 10

God made man with the ability to love Him or reject Him. If God would have made us robots, then He could have programmed us to only love Him and do good. But, because He gave us freedom to make moral choices, He had to take the risk that we would reject Him and follow Satan when the temptation came.
Yet, because God LOVED the people He made, He also took upon Himself the responsibility to PAY FOR THEIR REJECTION OF HIM. This He did in the person of Jesus' death on the cross, by Jesus dying for the sins of the whole world.

Jesus took our eternal death penalty upon Himself, so that we could be forgiven and enter into the relationship with God again, that was broken when Adam and Eve rebelled against God and followed Satan's lies.

Everyone born on earth is born with the inclination to sin=rebelling against God, -- and with a relationship that is broken between man and God.
When a person accepts Jesus as their Savior, they admit their sin and guilt before God and accept His gift of forgiveness and eternal life and enter into a relationship with God again. Those who entered this relationship with God are given the gift of the Holy Spirit, who helps them live lives pleasing to God.
Now, because we are born with a sinful nature and have developed a lot of sinful habits, these habits need to be broken bit by bit and the sinful nature needs to be brought under the control of the Holy Spirit, step by step. This is a life-long process, which causes us to learn to DEPEND on God day by day. In our sinful nature we love to be INDEPENDENT, but as Christians we learn to DEPEND on God.
Look at the following verses which talk about the difference of a life under the control of the sinful nature or under the control of the Holy Spirit:
"Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ." Romans 8:5-9

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