Can somebody explain to me why Jesus killed an innocent tree for no apparent reason?
404527
Simple.  Christ was ready, the tree was not.  Be ready when Christ comes asking something of you.  Remember, it is God, your life should revolve around Him, not things of this world.
219809
If someone kills in the name of God, they have been duped.  They fell victim to irrational thinking.  The god they serve is not God the creator (the giver of LIFE), but rather the god of death (Satin).  God promotes life. "Be fruitful and multiply."  God promises everlasting life, sent Jesus to overcome death.  Why would God go through all the trouble of creating life only to have others destroy it?  Makes no sense.
573500
WHAT? God killed a load of people? Ive totally gone off him. What a git! Hopefully he learned to practise what he preached, i.e. not to kill people!
577291
the cross has it origins in pagan history.  The cross was not used by the early Christians but become common place after the pagans and Christians were united under Constantine.  Christ was not killed on a cross anyway.  It was a straight pole without any appendages.  let me ask you, if your best friend was killed with a knife, would you hang a knife around your neck?  And would that remind you of his death or his great life?  yes, his death.  All the pictures of Christ show him on the "cross" died, not the resurrected Christ.  I think it is Satan's trick used to offend God, whose son was killed indirectly by Satan's thinking that he had foiled God's plan.  Indeed we should destroy these satanic pagan symbols.  Besides, they have no effect.  I have seen a lot of criminals and drug dealers wearing them.  What's the deal with that?
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well Jesus was nailed and hanged from a cross so I don't know how the cross would be good if it was used to kill someone, semantics my friend that's all!!!
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For a long time (since at least the middle 1800's) people have subscribed to the 'swoon theory', that Jesus did not actually die but just fainted from lack of blood and recovered later after being taken down.\n\nThere are several problems with that, the most important of which is the fact that it was not just a bunch of townies lynching a guy they didn't like by slow torture, it was an official execution, capital punishment Roman Style. The executioners were paid professionals. The Roman state was pretty brutal, and you can count on it that if an executioner let someone off the cross alive, he'd be up  there himself next. They wouldn't let a condemned man go without checking to make sure he was dead any more than we'd let a guy off the gurney to have his lethal injection flushed from his veins. \n\nBut, some said, they didn't have modern medical knowledge. How could they be sure Jesus was dead? Well, driving a spear into a man's side and watching to see if he twitched is a pretty good indicator. That doesn't take much modern medical knowledge. Even the authorities double checked when Joseph requested the body, because they were surpised that Jesus had died so soon.\n\nBut nobody-- NOBODY-- at that time, suggested that Jesus could possibly have been taken down from the cross still alive. Why? Because they did check, and they were quite certain that Jesus was, in fact, dead! Even when the priests were looking for some excuse for the empty tomb, they tried to say that the dead body had been stolen, but they never suggested that Jesus might not have been killed. Why not? Because they knew better! Half the city must have been there to watch the crucifixion. Nobody would believe it.\n\nBut let's suppose for a moment that Jesus was taken down from the cross alive. Was he given medical treatment? no. Was he given a saline infusion to conbat the effects of dehydration? no. What was he given? He was wrapped in grave cloths-- they made a mummy out of him! \n\nWhat, did people think that Jesus' arteries just slammed shut by themselves...? Or that He wasn't suffering from shock and dehydration? It's absurd to think that a man mortally wounded could have lived from Friday afternoon until sunrise on Sunday without any care at all. That's at least 36 hours of further, uninterrupted bleeding. The shock alone could kill a man.\n\nFinally, the jewish authorities had the strongest motivation to see to it that Jesus stayed dead. If the people went to the wrong tomb, they would have seen to it that everybody learned that a mistake had been made. If there was any doubt that Jesus was really dead, they would have had the body dug up and dragged around town on a donkey-cart so that everybody could SEE that Jesus was dead. Why didn't they do that? Because they didn't HAVE the body. \n\nNo matter how self-deluded people can become, do you think that all eleven apostles bore beatings and torture without giving in without ever questioning that Jesus was alive? Why not? Because they knew he WAS alive. \n\nWhat's so imporant about being alive? It happens to everybody. Well, it wouldn't have had any significance if Jesus hadn't been dead first! A man who crawled out of a tomb bleeding and nearly dead could never have convinced his folowers that he was resurrected. Maybe that God had spared him from death, but Jesus was too honest to take advantage of such a mistaken impression. His whole life and character goes against such basic dishonesty.\n\nThe only conclusion that seems honest to me is that Jesus really did die and rise from the dead-- just as he said he was going to-!- and that means that all the other things he said were true as well. He was and is the Messiah, the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the One Who will return to judge the living and the dead.
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The issue you really have to ask about is Why was Jesus buried in a stone enclosed cave to begin with. The answer is that this story is, also, based on Mithra-ism. Mithra, son of a human mother and a god, born in the Winter, died in the Spring, who died for the sins of the people, but who came back to life three days later, was also buried in Rock, and, when resurrected, rose out of the rock.\n\nJews would not bury any dead in rock. This would have prevented 'From dust to dust,' and is forbidden. The only reason for Jesus to have been buried in this way is to reflect the story of Mithra, like so much of the rest of his story.
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Really now? Says who? Did Jesus Christ impart this knowledge, himself? Sounds a little kooky. \n\nWho is this God character? Why is he invisible? I suppose I am the image of the invisible Michael. I am also Michael. \n\nAre you sure Jesus wasn't some crazy cultist? \n\nSomebody once told me to find Jesus, but I always thought he was long dead. Where's he buried? Somebody also once told me he floated up to an invisible land of enchantment. I have no idea how I'm supposed to find some dead, mentally ill guy, whose body has somehow magically disappeared, and then how do I prove if it's him or not? There were no dental records millenia ago, let alone DNA files. \n\nHm, I think Jesus is lost forever, unless he's that guy on the on ramp holding that sign, looking like a serial killer. At least that guy LOOKS a lot like Jesus. Anyhow, nope, I did not know that Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God, and is also God. \n\nHey, I got an idea. Why don't you tell me all about it? This sounds like a pretty wild story!
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i know this isn't really answering your question but i was kinda surprised to see what you said about "God looking like an unforgiving bully". I don't get that - He says do anything you want with this amazing garden I've given you, except one thing. If you do it, I'm going to punish you. So they do that one thing, and surprise surprise, they get punished. THEN He says, ok, so now you all do loads of stuff that goes against what i have said you should do, but I'll offer forgiveness through Jesus. That seems both pretty consistent and forgiving to me. \nSorry that doesn't answer your question, and I'm not ranting at you, just interested that you think that. I've never looked at it in that way. Hope other's answers are more on the point.\n\n\nAnd shadowalfalfa -sorry to disagree with you again, but Moses is thought to have written the first 5 books of the Bible.\n\nAn addition to my answer after your addition to your question - there is a prophecy in Daniel 7 that is entirely consistent with the acts of Alexander the Great many many many years later. There is historical evidence that Jesus existed and did many of the things the Bible says He did. So at least those things happened. Coincidence??? I don't think so.
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There was no green peace, democrats or womens rights organizations during the supposed time of Adam and Eve. And its nothing to do with Eve personally. I guess God wasnt worried about Adam eating it because he was to stupid to figure out what a "tree" or an "apple" were. A better question would be, who let the snake in? or Why did God create the tree and apple in the first place?
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Jesus was not killed by the Jews. He gave His life willingly as a sacrifice for sin. This was prophesied and fufilled. The Jews rejected their Messiah, yes. But this was also prophesied to happen. The Jews will be redeamed and saved in the end. This is also prophesied and illustrated in Romans. It is very important that you read 17 verses further...\n\nRomans 11:25\nFor I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.\n\nOnce the number of gentiles is come in, God will remove the blinders from Israel.\n___________________________\nSorry, I always want to make that point regarding who killed Jesus. Just want to get it straight. ;)\n\nAs to your detail, Christians should NEVER ignore the Jewish people. They should take great interest in, for example, their Seders. I even did an interesting study on it. http://tinyurl.com/nchkw\nI have always been a proSemitic. I also designed the Holyland Virtual Tour CD. I have been to Israel 3 times (working on 4) and always encourage people to tour there. You will learn so much about the Jewish people there without media bias to poison what you see. I encourage my kids to bless the Jewish people whenever they can. The Jewish people have come to realize they have only one true friend who has stood by them through thick and thin... the evangelical Christian. It perplexes them, but they appreciate it with tears. And I appreciate them and all of the incredible benefits they have developed for our world in medicine, technology and agriculture. Too many benefits to list here.
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well, maybe one could say that without thought...but prehaps a better view is not that HE killed them but rather didn't save them. I't may sound like the same thing but try it this way.  If I told you to get out of the road, and you chose not to...when the car hits you, does that mean I killed you? Or perhaps its the cars fault? Or just maybe its your own fault?  \n\nNow I do seem to remember that there was this lifeboat...and all we've really been told is that Noah's family got on it with a bunch of animals. \n\nI've never seen anywhere that it tells us whether or not he offered anyone a ride, or chased anyone away either...But from what i can tell it was a big boat.  So he probably wasn't hiding out secretly building it in his garage. Just maybe people could have actually seen him building it for the last 100+ years or so...Add my guess is that his lifesyle was probably a good example that he just might have know what he was up to...just maybe...so just maybe people were to busy to care.  \n\nSo Just maybe when God decided to take a break from holding weather paterns in check...maybe a lot of people decided not to get out of the way, until it was a little too late.
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the "Passion" was a kids version of what truly happened. it was so brutal that it could not be shown on TV or movies. it was so painful before they were put on the cross, it was a miracle that He did not die before the cross. first, he was spat upon and his beard was torn out by his own people. then he was whipped with a stick. he was taken before pilate. then he was sripped naked and whipped by the "cat and nine tails" which had peices of metal and glass that tears the skinn off. they whipped him thirty-nine times. then he was robed in purple and a crown of thorns was forced onto his head. the thorns were the length of common nails and as thin as a pine needle. they were so sharp that they went through his scull. then he was forced to carry his cross which would have weighd something near five hundred pounds. he had to carry it throu the streets ant to the mount called golgotha which was a good ten kilometers from the roman post in the city. once there, he had his clothes ripped off him once more and was forced to hold out his arms where nails the length of railroad spikes were driven into his hands and feet. then they raised the cross into the hole whre it dropped two to three feet. he was nude, bleeding, almost unrecognizable, and was mocked by both his people and the romans. what you did not see in the movie was that all the sin of the world was brought onto Jesus and he died from the weight of that sin.
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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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Undoubtedly,it was wood from a tree from\nthe area where they were.  The Bible does\nnot tell us what kind of wood was used.
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Because people took for granted that this happened thinking they know the story. \nIF one goes to the actual account in the bible - the "wise men" went to Herod first to ask for direction and got told the wrong way. By the time they found Jesus, it was at least two months after and Jesus would NOT have been in the stable.\n\n(Herod ordered all children up to two years old to be killed after he sent the wise men away. IF Jesus was a new born, why would Herod ordered for babies up to two years to be killed? Unless he really didn't know how long ago the prophesied baby was born)
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Jesus was the tree that the apple grew on.\n\nWhy? It can't be explained, you have to come to realize it by yourself, and when you do you'll know that you have become one with the Spirit.