Why did Jesus forgive that sinner that was on the cross next to him?
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Our salvation is not obtained by our "good works", for "all of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags" before God anyway (Isaiah 64:6). "But to him who does not work [for his salvation] but believes on Him Who justifies the UNGODLY, his faith is counted as righteousness" (Romans 4:5).\n\nWhen Christ took our punishment, God imputed to Him all the sins that we have done--and will continue to do--so that He could impute His righteousness to us, as he had promised in the Old Testament (Jeremiah 23:6, 33:16). This is why the Psalmist would only boast in the righteousness of God (Psalm 71:16).\n\nThe thief acknowledge his standing before the Law of God (guilty) and asked for mercy, like the publican in Luke 18:9-14. Therefore God justified him, and he went to be with Jesus.
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If you are saved we are SINNERS SAVED BY GRACE, so there is always forgiveness. Christ's blood covers all. Everyone has messed up. Ask forgiveness and it is yours.
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He had everything to gain.  He was a shunned child growing up for being an illegitimate child.  This childhood abuse caused serious psychological problems.  He craved attention, and when he got it, it was never enough.  When the attention stopped making him feel better he began craving pain.  That is why (which we've recently found out in the Judas writings) he asked his good friend Judas to turn him in.  Jesus wanted to be punished on the cross.  He made that crown of thorns himself to prove to himself that he can still feel.
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peter was upside down on the cross. and it was in rome.\nthe word babylon is your past.and it doesn't say who was killed first peter or paul.
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It is God's character to be sinless.  He cannot sin or else He would not be God.  The reason that Christ died on the cross was for our sins.  He was the perfect sacrifice.  No one else was, or could ever be, a sacrifice for our sins because everyone one else has a sinful nature.  God is quick to forgive us because He keeps all His promises.  He tells us, for example, in John 1:9 that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.  The Bible also tells us that He is not willing that any of us should perish.  We can truly be eternally thankful that He does just what He says He will do--He keeps all His promises to us.
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I believe the 2nd story is correct. Not sure about the follower part, but yes, another man was subsituted. See, Jesus was pulled into the heavens and will return before the Day of Judgement, symbolizing that the Day of Judgement is near. So, yes, God did not kill Jesus.
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HOW MISIMFORMED ARE YOU HONEY... GOD SON JESUS CAN FORGIVE HES THE ONE THAT GAVE OF HIMSELF ON THE CROSS ON CALVARY FOR YOUR SINS AND FOR MINE AND FOR EVERYONES SINS... AND THERE IS ALWAYS A NEED TO HAVE FORGIVENESS BUT YOU MUST MEAN IT AND STICK WITH IT AND NOT DO THE SAME THING AND JUST EXPECT THAT YOU CAN BE FORGIVEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR THE SAME MISTAKE...
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well, as the story goes, he did this in order to pay for your sins\n\nim not altogether sure i've ever understood that story very much though\n\nim sort of the mindset that ok jesus was preaching and gaining a large following, this upset political leaders of the day and they started to feel that an uprising or a shift in power was about to happen\n\nchrist, as he preached in the gospels "if a man hits you on one cheek, let him hit you on the other" was a pacifist and did not confront physical violence back with violence\n\ninstead, he allowed them to kill him in order to make a point, the point being that 1. he was not going to cave to political pressure and shut up and 2. that he was fulfilling a divine plan of his fathers in order to meet his father's criteria of how things are to be resolved
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This was the case when the religious leaders asked Jesus to condemn an adulterous woman, and Jesus replied:\n\nLet he who is without sin cast the first stone.\n\nIn the text it said the leaders all left, beginning with the older ones. After they departed, said that he did not condemn her either, but simply said, "Go and sin no more".\n\nThis was a popular theme among Jesus' teachings: people must forgive others, because all are in need of forgiveness.  And it appears in the Lord's prayer: Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those, who sin against us.
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and my christian friends should thank Judas also ....because if he hadnt betrayed Jesus ....there wouldnt have been any salvation possible .... why is he always titled as  a satan...By the way lets see if Gospel of Judas bring some truth .......\nI am a Muslim and Quran tells us that Jesus never died neither did he wished so .....some person (may be Judas) betrayed him ...and he was crucified inplace of jesus because God made him look like jesus...Jesus has been raised up alive in the heavens and he will return ..
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Q1:  In the big picture, it seems God wanted to contrast the attitudes of the criminals.  One had a hardened heart, as we all do in our natural state, and hurled insults at Jesus while scoffing Him.  The other feared God and acknowledged Him as King and Savior.\n\nIt also (obviously?) affirms Jesus was punished under the same sentence as criminals, and to His last moments was regarded as sinless.\n\nTheologically, God used it signally; namely, this story stands out describing how Faith Alone in Christ Alone saves.  This criminal who apparently did no good thing (beyond the fruit of his confession) was to be saved (into paradise) by faith in Christ. \n\nQ2: the (Luke 23:41) response of the criminal seems to indicate the punishment justly fit their crimes.
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We sin because we were born in sin and have Adams seed.  When this happens we are considered a sinner.  God does NOT hate the sinner but actually loves them.  He sent his Son to die on the cross to save a person from their sin and restore them into a right relationship with Him.  However, sin is punished and if a person rejects this free gift from God of Jesus they will pay the price for that sin which is eternal seperation from Him.  With acceptance of Jesus and the cleansing of your sin by His blood you are considered sinless in Gods eyes as Jesus paid the price for your sin.  When you do this you can have eternal life with God.  He does not love you more than the sinner He just accepts you back into His presence as Jesus took your sin away.
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An idea of the meaning can be taken by looking at the word "atonement" as "at one ment."  By reason of the Fall of Adam, and by our individual sins we have become separated from God.  What Jesus did was to reconcile us to God, to make it possible to return to God, or to make us one with God.
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The sin of all the world was placed on Jesus when he was on the cross. When He rose from the dead, He was victorious over, sin, death and hell.
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Is this what you're getting at?\n\nRomans 5:1-21\n\nTherefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.\nFor when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.\nTherefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—(For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)\nTherefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.\nMoreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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:}\nI wasn't A very nice person when i came to know the lord.\nI had done allot of things to offend his very nature.\nHe chose to submit to a criminals punishment to the death on the cross and horrible punishment as a means to atone for my sins so i could spend eternity in bliss with him\nHe loves me.
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because of our adamic nature, we have pride engrained into us so deeply, that when we are wronged, we feel we deserve revenge and the offender definitely does NOT deserve forgiveness! on the same hand, because of that same pride, WE definitely DO NOT NEED forgiveness because we`ve done "NO WRONG"!\nbut the WORD says Jesus prayed "forgive us AS WE FORGIVE those who trespass against us..."\n\n if we don`t forgive ,then the the Lord has no requisite to forgive us!  i`d say, forgive! get over it!