What does it mean that Jesus sacrificed himself ?
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Thank you for letting me answer your question.\n\nActually your question can be actually made of (2) separate questions. I'll be brief, but percise.\n1. What does it mean that Jesus sacrificed himself?  \n   A: The bible speaks about Jesus became sin for the purpose of an exchange. He became or took our sin for the purpose of giving all humans a right to forgiveness and everlasting life with God in heaven. \nSo the sacrifice portion as the bible explains kicked in when Jesus, the Son of God lived a life on earth as a man never to have committed any sin, but accepted all sin to death for all humans. The ultimate sacrifice done completely out of love.  \n\n2. Committing sins and going to heaven?\nBelieving that Jesus is the Son of God, Died on the Cross, and Rose from the grave allows those that believe on those (3)things to have a right to ask for forgiveness. All people commit some form of sin, but the truth about sinning comes from the intension of from the heart concerning sinning. \n\nA true believer is not trying to find ways to do immoral actions. \n\nIts encouraged that any person who believes to ask for forgiveness anytime/all the time when you feel something didn't line up with what you believe to be unpleasant before God. The key that many miss is that God loves you. Please read Psalms 103. \n\nGod would not have gone through all the trouble of setting up/placing Jesus on earth then allow him to be sacrificed/killed and offer up eternal life/forgiveness only to strike/condem people to hell when they miss it.\nThe only time the bible does speak on not being forgiven is when a believer who has experienced God to fullness denies God to exist. That person had witnessed His mercy/LOVE/spirit/prosperity, yet when its all done they still say in their "HEART/Inner Thoughts" God doesn't exist(Hebrews 6 and 10). \nI hope this answers your question.
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well i read somewhere that judas was meant to betray jesus in order for him to be put on the cross and forsake himself for out sins. intresting theory i thought.
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According to Matthew 27:5, Judas hanged himself. But Acts 1:18 says, “pitching head foremost he noisily burst in his midst and all his intestines were poured out.” Matthew seems to deal with the mode of the attempted suicide, while Acts describes the result. Combining the two accounts, it appears that Judas tried to hang himself over some cliff, but the rope or tree limb broke so that he plunged down and burst open on the rocks below. The topography around Jerusalem makes such an event conceivable.
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3)You wrote, "Our difference is in the interpretation of the data." If the 'data' states specifically, "Every man shall be put to death for his own sin,' how do you interpret that statement to allow for Jesus dying for our sins? It seems to me that your interpretation of Isaiah must be incorrect, or that 'every man shall be put to death for his own sin,' does not mean what it says, or Gd changed His mind somewhere between Deut.24:16 and Isaiah 53.....???\n\n1)You say 'no mortal man can atone,' so who actually did the dying on the cross? Gd cant die, so it was Jesus-the-mortal-man, and so all you have is a human sacrifice, which Gd calls an abomination and something He hates, in Deut 12:30-31!\n\nFOR YOUR QUESTION ABOUT ISAIAH 53, see the BEST ANSWER AT:::\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AqACR_rSjfAqZek.PZv_OM0jzKIX?qid=1005123006794\n\nFOR YOUR QUESTION ABOUT LEV. 17:11, see the web sites i refer you to below.\n\n2)And Jesus being your prophet priest and king, i refer you to what i wrote below, all the theology of Christianity still flies in the face of what Gd already revealed to us through his Bible. Even a Jesus/prophet/priest/king still has not brought about those things the real messiah will do!\n----\nThe basic beliefs of Christianity about Jesus are against what the Bible says, and so Real Jews cannot believe in Jesus at all.\n\nThe Christian understanding is that the Messiah, Jesus, died for the sins of the people. The messiah is supposed to be a human sacrifice that is the blood sacrifice necessary for the forgiveness of sin.\n\nBut we are taught in our Torah that no one can die for the sins of another. In Deuteronomy 24:16 it specifically says this:\n\nDeuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not \nbe put to death for the children, neither \nshall the children be put to death for\nthe fathers: \nevery man shall be put to death for his \nown sin (eesh b’chet-o yumatu).\n\nIn Exodus 32:30-35, Moses tries to offer himself to atone for the sins of the people. To be written out of Gd's book, means to be written out of the Book of Life, which means Moses was asking to die for the sins of the People. Gd's response is No, it does not work that way, each man dies for his own sin:\n\nExodus 32:30-35 And it came to pass on the \nmorrow, that Moses said unto the people, \nYe have sinned a great sin: and now I will \ngo up unto the Etrnl; perhaps I shall make \nan atonement for your sin. And Moses \nreturned unto the Etrnl, and said, Oh, \nthis people have sinned a great sin, and \nhave made them gods of gold. Yet now, if \nthou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, \nblot me, I pray thee, out of thy book \nwhich thou hast written. And the Etrnl \nsaid unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned \nagainst me, him will I blot out of my \nbook. \n\nThe whole of chapter 18 of the book of Ezekiel is about this idea, that no one can die for someone else's sin. Further, this chapter of Ezekiel teaches us that all we have to do for Gd's forgiveness is to stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd will forgive us:::\n\n             Ezekiel 18:1-4; 20-24; 26-27 .....Behold, all \n             souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so \n             also the soul of the son is mine: the soul \n             that sinneth, it shall die. Eze 18:20 The soul \n             that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not \n             bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall \n             the father bear the iniquity of the son: the \n             righteousness of the righteous shall be upon \n             him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be \n             upon him. But if the wicked will turn from all \n             his sins that he hath committed, and keep all \n             my statutes, and do that which is lawful and \n             right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. \n             All his transgressions that he hath committed, \n             the
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In Matthew 27:42\n\n"He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.\n\nThat's the closest I can find.\n\nYou probably typed in the wrong statement?
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The myth goes that Jesus gave his life to assume the burden of our sins. The myth is, of course, a load of codswallup. \n\nHow does the crucifixion count as an appropriate sacrifice? Quite simply answered, the correct response is; "It doesn't."\n\nJesus spent a few hours, maybe a day, in agonizing pain; but it was no greater pain than millions of others have suffered. In fact many people have suffered greater agony for more extended periods of time virtually every day since the dawn of Man. \n\nIf Jesus really is God (or the son thereof), then He knew exactly what was happening, and exactly how long it would last. There was nothing about the event for which he was unprepared to deal with on a physical, psychological, or emotional level. If there WAS something he was unprepared for, then he could clearly not be God, or the son of God.\n\nWhen it was done, He supposedly ascended to heaven and became the all-powerful ruler of the universe. This is infinitely greater compensation than even the faithful will receive, and infinitely less torture that the damned will receive.\n\n-SD-
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NO. Jesus was still man and He of course didn't like pain, but in the end He would WILLINGLY do His Father's will. Jesus could have summoned a league of a 1000 angels and could have gone to heaven right then, but He loved us and wanted us to have a way to get to heaven. Jesus came down to save us, because it was His Father's will.
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Technically it would fall under the definition of suicide.  Suicide includes things like a soldier sacrificing his life for the sake of others.  So, if Jesus was indeed a god omnipotent omniscient god, then he would have known that by doing certain things he would bring about his own earthly death (kinda like suicide by cop).  I doubt you'll get any christians who will admit that it can be called a suicide.
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Here, Jesus was expressing His feelings of abandonment as God placed the sins of the world on Him – and because of that had to “turn away” from Jesus. As Jesus was feeling that weight of sin, He was feeling separated from God for the only time in all of eternity. It was at this time that 2 Corinthians 5:21 occurred, “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus became sin for us, so He felt loneliness and abandonment - separation from God.
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Consider this:\n\nAccording to Christians, before the crucifixion Jesus (as God) was:\n\nOmnipotent\nOmniscient\nOmnibenevolent\n\nAFTER the crucifixtion, Jesus remains:\n\nOmnipotent\nOmniscient\nOmnibenevolent\n\nSacrifice means to give something up.  As I see it, Jesus didn't give up a darn thing.  God (as Jesus or through Jesus) is EXACTLY the same as God was before the crucifixion.  Nope....no sacrifice there.
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Christians will argue that it was not suicide but rather him giving himself to "save" you. trust me There are better augments against Christianity especially if you use their own texts against them.\n\nhear is a small sample\n1) The Gospels teach that Jesus appeared to the disciples after his resurrection. We are unclear, however, whether those appearances took place in Jerusalem or in the Galilee (or at both locales). According to our reading, the Galilean accounts seem to rule out prior Jerusalem appearances. Where did Jesus actually appear? If he appeared in Jerusalem, how should we read the Galilean accounts?\n\n(2) We find the genealogy of Jesus provided by the Gospels confusing. Who was Jesus’ paternal grandfather? (We notice that Matthew says that his grandfather was Jacob, but Luke says it was Heli). Also, we notice that Matthew declares that Jesus was separated from King David by only twenty-eight generations, but Luke’s list shows a forty-three generation separation. What does this contradiction mean?\n\n(3) The genealogical line linking Jesus and King David seems to pass through Jesus’ father. But since Jesus was the product of a virgin conception, then he does not share in his father’s Davidic ancestry. How is Jesus a descendent of David?
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He laid down his life AND he was killed.  It would not have been right for him to commit suicide in order to save us.  Because that would have been committing a murder.\n\nWhen voluntarily laid down his life, he was allowing the Jews, through the Romans (yes, I know there's controversy on this...no hate mail please) to take his life or to kill him.  He was not forced to die.
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Jesus died to bring salvation to humanity. His teachings, life, and sacrifice caused a world revolution. He brought a message of peace, and brotherly love. To know Jesus is to love Him...for what he did and for what he continues to do. I have a dream that all religious groups will acknowledge what Christ did for the human race and unite in brotherly love. Fanaticism is not the way---love of God and Humanity is.
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Jesus came for a very specific purpose. To die. To be the substitute for you and I. He did not come to set up housekeeping, in fact He said Himself that foxes have dens and birds have nests, but He had nowhere to lay His head. He came to face the death penalty that God sentenced us with because we broke his holy law. Now we are pardoned if we accept this free gift from God on faith.
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I am a Christian, so when I was baptised I renounced satan, all his works and and all his empty promises. Also, Christ said that if anyone wants to be His follower, they must renounce themselves, take up their cross and follow Him. It's not completely clear to me what He meant by renouncing myself, but I take it to mean that I put aside purely selfish desires and try and put other people first and think what Christ would have done inmy situation, especially by praying about things. \n\nI suppose I have had to suffer in order to follow Christ, as I get made fun of by some people and twice I had to give up a love affair because it was only going into sex and we couldn't be married and that was hard. However, it never seems difficult in the end because you get all the comfort you need from Jesus and his holy Mother.
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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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What is meant by the freedom and or bondage of the will is a mans ability or inability to choose to save himself. Man was created with a capacity to know and serve God willingly. When he sinned and rebelled against God he lost that ability to do any spiritual good. As God told him he would surely die he in fact did die spiritually. No longer could he do any good in his own will. This is what is known as the bondage of the will. It is in bondage to sin and can't escape. Yet it is not a forced will, it goes about its fallen nature in sin willingly. That is why Jesus said unless a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of heaven, and Paul says there is no one who seeks God. Because Adam represented all men, when he died in sin all mankind died with him because a sinner can only produce more sinners. This is the bondage that all are in. They are spiritually dead and as Jesus said the Father desires to be worshiped in "Spirit and Truth". Yes many claim to choose Jesus and some are enabled to by the Holy Spirit but others only deceive themselves. Read the passage below and tell me, didn't these people "choose Jesus and don't they think they serve Him? Don't they call Him Lord?, and yet they are cast out?\nMatthew 7:22-24 \n\n Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’  And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’\nThis is most sobering and caused me to tremble.\nApart from being a new creation all man can do is sin and he does it willingly, because his will is in bondage to sin.