Keep in mind, Jesus went to the cross willingly. His trial by Pilate was illegal: no arrests could b e made at night, Jesus was arrested at night; arrests could be made on charges of an accomplice. Jesus was arrested on the word of Judas, technically, an accomplice of Christ, having travelled with him over 3 years; simple bench warrants were illegal, a man could only be arrested by the full mandate of the court; interrogation could not be done at night, which is when Jesus was questioned; private interrogations were also unlawful; preliminary questioning of Jesus was done by Annas; also, it was an outrage to strike a defendant. Jesus was slapped in court; accusers could not be witnesses, and this point of Jewish law was violated. On the indictment, Jesus was deprived of his rights, courts could only hear charges, not institute them; court proceedings were illegal at night, trials could not be conducted on days preceding any Sabbath; no criminal could be tried & convicted the same day.
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Illegal or not, Jesus would have gone willingly. That is interesting though. Thanks for calling attention to that.
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Jesus called for the reformation of Judaism of the time. To him Judaism was being too heavily influenced by the Roman empire, and when he openly spoke out against it during passover (flipping the merchant's tables etc.), the roman empire saw him as a threat... Jesus ( during his time) was not necessarily viewed as the son of God... just a disrupter.
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ALL THIS 17 YEARS I HAVE BEEN TRACIN GOD I DID NT FIND ONE.BUT ACCORDING TO ME JESUS WAS A BABY LEFT IN CATTLE SHED.HE WAS FOUND BY MARY WHO WAS A VIRGIN SO CALLED VIRGIN MARY (MOTHER)AS SHE WAS NOT MARRIED.HE GREW UP AS A NORMAL BOY BUT HAD TO FACE HUMILIATION OF BEEN BORN TO MARY WHO WAS VIRGIN.HE TRIED TO PREACH LOVE BUT IN FAVOUR THE JEWS PRIEST WANTED HIM TO CRUCFIED .BUT THE COMMANDER OF CEASER WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THIS AS JESUS HAD ALREADY FACED THE PUNISHMENT HE REQUIRED.SO HE MADE A PACT WITH JESUS THAT THE CRUCIFICATION WOULD BE DONE BUT IT WOULD IT WOULD BE A PLAY HE WOULD BE GIVEN ANESTHESIA (MOSTLY WINE IN THOSE DAYS) AFTER THE CRUCIFICATION .HIS ALIVE BODY WAS SHIFTED TO THE CAVES SECRETLY HEALED AND HE RECOVERED IN 3 DAYS .HE WALKED INTO THE CITY AND ASKED HIS FOLLOWERS TO COME WITH HIM .HERE ONLY JUDAS FOLLWED HIM FROM HIS TEN FOLLOWERS .PEOPLE FOLLLOWED HIM AND WENT TO EGYPT .AND SETTLE BESIDES A NILE RIVER BASIN.JUDAS NEVER BETRAYED JESUS HE FOLLOWED THE ORDERS OF JESUS .HE WAS OBEDIENT ,FAITHFULL AND DIFFRENT FROM OTHERS THATS THE REASON JESUS LOVED HIM.JESUS MARRIED MARY AND WAS ALIVE FOR 45 YEARS AFTER CRUCIFACTION .HE HAD A SECRET FAMILY WHICH WAS PROTECTED FROM BEING KNOWN TO MANKIND .THERE ARE MANY EVIDEINCE OF IT.THE BIBLE ITS IS ONE IT STATE MARY MAGDELENE AS A PROSTITUTE TO PROTECT ITSELF .AS THE CHURCH SAYS A PERSON CAN BE GOD ONLY IF HE IS SINGLE.THE CHURCH ALSO SAYS GOD IS IMMORTAL .DOES ANY ONE NO WHAT IS IMMORTAL .IT MEANS UR NAME SHALL REMAIN IN THE MINDS OF PEOPLE EVEN IF THE DUST FROM UR BONES IS GONE.
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Prominent in the Gospels is the mention of Jesus' intact body being respectfully treated and interred by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. Jesus' body was not literally consumed by animals or humans.\n\n(John 19:38-40) Joseph from Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus but a secret one out of his fear of the Jews, requested Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. Therefore he came and took his body away. 39 Nicodemus also... 40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it up with bandages with the spices\n\n\nConsumption of blood has been forbidden since Noah's time, and both cannibalism and abuse of blood were forbidden by the Jewish Mosaic Law. Since the Mosaic Law was not abolished until after Jesus' death; the ceremony mentioning "flesh" and "blood" which Jesus instituted would not have been understood with any hint of literalness by the apostles (See Matt 26; Mark 14; Luke 22).\n\nAt the "Last Supper", Jesus was preparing his disciples for his departure from earth. He was teaching them to use the bread and wine as symbols of Christ's sacrificial offering of his own flesh and blood; these symbols would be featured at future observances of that "Memorial" celebration.\n\nThe most significant "Memorial" one could observe is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death; even today that annual commemoration is still called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".\n\n(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.” \n\n(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.” \n\n\nChrist Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Apparently Jesus Christ established the occasion to supersede the Jewish Passover, which occurs after sunset on the 14th of Nisan (a month of the Jewish calendar).\n\n(Luke 22:14-16) At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And [Jesus] said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.\n\n\nSadly, it is only a minority of professed Christians who follow the BIBLICAL pattern for the Last Supper which was established by Christ himself. Sadly, most of Christendom ignores Christ's celebration and instead follow unrelated human traditions which purport to honor Christ, but in ways unconnected with what Jesus Christ established.\n\nLike the former Passover, those Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have also done so on the date corresponding to Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "fourteen-ers"\n\n\nThere are fundamental differences between the Memorial which Christ Jesus instituted and the so-called "Easter" which Christendom adopted from pagan worship of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Oestre). While most Easter celebrations merely repackage pagan fertility festivals and concentrate on eating, decorating, and frivolity, the Last Supper focuses on the value of Christ's sacrifice and the sober obligation of Christianity. \n\n(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_0
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It was a dirty job, but someone had to do it.  Even Jesus knew that at the time.\n\nHe told Judas to go do what he had to do.
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Based on the books in the New Testament, the Jews asked Pilate to release Barabbas, a convicted murderer, (as was the custom for the Roman guard to release any prisoner once a year upon the request of the people) and crucify Jesus Christ. The Gospels state that the Pharisees saw Jesus Christ as a threat to the established religious order as he equated himself with God and rebuked the religious hierarchy and piety of the Jews as displeasing to God, and since he had such a large following of people. So in essence, the New Testament states that the Jewish Religious order plotted against Jesus (hence bribing Judas for a bag of silver to bring Jesus to them). There were obviously Jewish people who did worship Jesus as the Son of God (his disciples, Mary Magdalene, his own mother, etc.) and therefore it is unfair to state that the Bible blames all Jews for the death of Jesus. But Biblical History dictates that it was Jews (meaning the Pharisees and other enemies of Jesus) who conspired to bring about Jesus' death and requested that he be crucified. \n\nHow accurate all of this is historically is almost impossible to verify as almost all evidence is taken from old manuscripts written by the early Christians. Just like any historical story, you need to look at it critically but not dismiss it just because it can't be proven.
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Okay, this is my understanding of it from all I've read here on Y!A and elsewhere... Please correct me if I've made any mistakes...\n\nIn the beginning, God made a bunch of rules. Those who followed them went to heaven and those who broke them went to hell.\n\nBut they were really difficult rules, so God decided to send Jesus to the world. Jesus was God's son, but he was God Himself, too. Plus the Holy Spirit. And the "Word made Flesh". And many other things too.\n\nJesus's mission was to spread the word of God, his Father (i.e. Himself), but he was also our Saviour. This he accomplished by dying. You see, everyone is a sinner, and no-one can live up to God's rules. God seems to have realised that in due course. He could have, say, changed the rules or just absolved us all by fiat, but this whole kill-My-son (i.e. Myself) thing seemed easier.\n\nJesus was predestined to die for our sins. It was his calling. This is why he hid from the Romans like a fugitive, and why Pilate, Judas and the Jews are all condemned for their complicity - because they wanted to kill a man who wanted to die and was preordained to die. Their crucial role in carrying out God's plan to redeem us all is why we should hate them today.\n\nWhen Jesus, who willingly died and could have prevented it if he had wanted, was on the cross, he called out 'Father, why have you betrayed me?' This means, 'Father (i.e. myself), why have You (i.e. I) abandoned me (i.e. Yourself) when I'm carrying out the mission that you (i.e. I) decided to undertake in the first place?' This is because God, who is omnipotent, could not bear to look sin in the face, and Jesus (i.e. God) had become sin at that moment. Then Jesus died.\n\nExcept he didn't die. He spent a long weekend somewhere and then he was resurrected. So Jesus died for our sins, but he didn't die. He was raised again and now sits at the right hand of God. Except that he is God. But anyway, we can all go to heaven now, where we couldn't before Jesus died/didn't die for us.\n\nOf course, we can still go to hell. Jesus died for our sins, but it doesn't count unless you accept him as your Saviour. Plus, if you're Catholic, you also have to confess and repent and atone. And if you're Protestant, it doesn't much matter anyway, because God decided where you were going before you were born. Plus there's something about wine and thin little wafers.\n\nSo then... what have we learnt? Well, God's law is eternal, but God's law is really harsh so He gave us a hand by sending His son/Himself to die. Except that he didn't die. Because he died/didn't die, people can go to heaven. But they still have to follow God's law, or else they'll go to hell. Just like it was before God sent His son/Himself to die/not die on the cross in order to absolve/not absolve us of our sins.\n\nI hope this clears up any misunderstandings... It's all very clear and logical when you approach it the right way.
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According to the Bible, Jesus is God, and has always been God.  But in order to accomplish the salvation of man, He laid aside that right, and took a position that was less then God - that of His Son - and humbled Himself to God as His Father being obedient even to the point of dying on the cross.  Because of that, He was raised from the dead and returned to the position of full Godship with His Father.  (Read Phillippians 2: 6-11).\n\nIn the Jewish culture that Jesus lived, to term translated "the son of..." was a legal term that referred to someone who had all the rights and power of their father.  To refer to Jesus as "the son of God" meant the He had all the rights and power of God.  It is differrent that what we think of when we hear the English term "the son of...".  This is why during Jesus' trial before the Jews, when He referred to Himself as "the son of God", the high priest torn his garment and called him a blasphemer, because He made Himself equal with God.\n\nYou may debate all day whether or not Jesus was divine, but there is no room for debate over whether the Bible SAYS Jesus was divine.  There are hundreds of refers to His divinity in it.\n\nSo the answer is: Jesus, by claiming to be the Son of God, was claiming to be God.  They are the same thing.
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If you are thinking of trying to spot a contradiction, then you will be disappointed. The Bible did not say that Judas committed suicide in two different ways. It clearly says in Matthew that he hung himself. Acts simply recorded that he fell headfirst and his stomach was cut opened by the fall. You only call it a contradiction when the two accounts are impossible to reconcile. But it is perfectly plausible that he hung himself from a tree near a cliff or ravine and the branch upon which he was hanging later broke off. Unless you are saying that this scenario is impossible you do not have a contradiction to rave about.
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It's not a weird notion.  There is no evidence of a lot of things that transpired during the times of Christ.   Sure the Bible talks about it and is the ONLY accepted history of that time.   I'm inclined to think that the apostles did run with their interpretation of Christ's teachings.   I'm not so sure it was to create an alternate Jewish religion, but an alternate politically correct on of the time.   Jesus didn't come to Earth to have people worship him as God.  That was furthest from his teachings.  His teachings were to show people the way to the Father through his teachings.  Even the perverstion of "The only way to heaven is through Christ."   It simply means that to get to heaven is to be like Christ and follow his teachings.   It does not mean to worship him as God.   Never has, never did, never will.
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Your argument doesn't hold water. For it to be a good argument all the facts need to be true and provable. Jesus wasn't even killed on a cross he was hung.And almost nothing else you said is provable.
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Get your facts straight.  The martial artists RAN on pads floating on the surface of the water.  The pads were bigger than their feet and created more resistance against the standing water.  All they sank was sink slowly for a split-second on several different pads.  Jesus walked on the sea like it was solid ground.  And when Peter tried to walk out to him he became afraid and lost faith and started to sink.  So, conclusion: Jesus=walked on sea.  Martial artists=Ran on pads
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Before Jesus came, people were bound by the law and the keeping of the law. In other words, if you believed in God, you kept the law, did your sacrifices to God, did what God said, etc., you went to Heaven. But the lawmakers of the time were so mean, they made it where no one could keep the law. They asked ridlculous things of the people.So Jesus came, to make obeying attainable. Once Jesus came, he was crucified for the sins of the world. On the 3rd day he rose, then ascended into Heaven, where he sits at the right hand of the Father, God. Now, all you have to do is believe that Jesus died, rose again, confess your sins to him and ask for forgiveness, and you will go to Heaven. So, the people before Jesus came that did what they were asked of God to do are in Heaven.
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Matthew 28:5-7 reads, "The angel said to the women, 'Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.  Then go quickly and tell his disciples , He has RISEN FROM THE DEAD, and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you too".\n\nLuke 24:45-49, reads, Then He, (Jesus), openend their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.  He told them "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and RISE FROM THE DEAD on the third day, and repentence and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem". - Here, Jesus reinstates it was he who was crucified. \n\nIf anyone also wants to read more about Christ's crucifixion and death & his ressurection, read the book "The Case for Christ", chapter 11.  You'll understand that Jesus died on the cross after you read Lee Strobel interview with Alexander Metherell, M.D.,PH.D.  Metherell uses his expertise as a physician to describe in vivid detail just what Christ went through, and how He died on the cross.  He leaves anyone reading his account convinced that Jesus did die on the cross and wasn't just swooned or faint from what he went through.
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Ok, not to sound cliche, but remember the musical Jesus Christ Superstar?  Remember in the title song Judas sings "Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication!..."  It's not like they could see his pic in the newspaper, or online.  It was dark, and even with a full moon there were lots of olive trees around, casting shade on whatever light may have been around, so they still wouldn't have seen him.  \n\nPlus, it's not like the Roman army got off days to go listen to Jesus.  Jesus and the Jews were a threat to Roman culture and power, and it was forbidden to be a soldier and a follower of Christ or Judaism.
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There is no real evidence that Jesus went to India after his death and resurrection. There is a possiblity that the apostle Thomas went to India, but not Jesus.
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Jesus didn't take part of our sins to the cross; He took ALL OUR SINS.  He is waiting for you to return to Him.  If you confess your sins, He is faithful to forgive you.  Just ask Him.