Can Jesus' sacrifice be considered a real sacrifice when he supposedly came back to life three days later?

it never happened. it's a myth.

but given that (in the story) he knew he was coming back, and then going to heaven to a great reward for eternity, THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE!

people will also say some nonsense like "his sacrifice was taking all of the world's sins upon himself" -- well, what does that mean? every time someone sins, today, he gets punched in the stomach? it's just more religio-babble NONSENSE. it is meaningless babble that sounds really neat when you say it, but it means NOTHING!!

Give it to se7en_lights... he's got it right.

Lot's of people died in similar ways, there were plenty of crucifixions and a good number of other horrible deaths dealt out at the hands of the Roman conquerors. I don't see how anyone can negate the pain and suffering of all of the victims and focus only on one, Jesus, as if it was so completely unique for it's time.

I don't believe that a man named Jesus has ever really been established as a factually true being in the first place. The whole story is hype. It certainly isn't any evidence for divinity or the existence of any god or gods.

And yes... I think the implication of the question, that the sacrifice of Jesus was nothing significantly uncommon especially in the light of it's fantastic idea of resurrection - if the story is to believed - because he didn't die at all, did he. As someone here said sarcastically, the death of Jesus could be looked upon as he was, "having a bad hair day," and when put into a reasonable comparative perspective, it almost can be.

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Yes, because the sacrifice began with the pain in the garden before he was betrayed. That was when he took the sins of the world on him. That pain, that dreadful pain, was the sacrifice. The crucifixtion was a means for him to die so that he could come back three days later, fulfilling the prophecies.

If you went through what we are informed he went through in the last twenty four hours of his life you may consider it a real sacrifice, then again maybe not ! Some folks may just interpret he had a bad hair day!

I cannot imagine anyone asking this question. Truly can't!

I'm sorry but, unless you understand the why's of HIS scarifice then, you will never get it!

Goodness! He came to earth for YOUR sake too and was beaten beyond what a normal person could take and all because of His love for YOU and ALL. He endured hours upon that cross and was spat upon, mocked, given vinegar for water and so forth! Yet, you can say something as flippant as this?

You may mock Him still but, what He did, He did for all!

The resurrection? No tomb could hold Him! Death set Him free from the physical state in which He willingly accepted. You should read why His resurrection and what occured whenHe was supposively, entombed! It may open your closed eyes a bit. I pray it does!

It satisfies God's requirement for Holiness. Without Jesus' sacrifice we wouldn't stand a chance for righteousness.

First, you may understand that Jesus became into no longer in user-friendly terms a guy. He became into totally God and totally guy. God did no longer could humble Himself & wrap Himself in a human physique.... yet He did so which you will possibly create a manner of salvation for His creation, the human race. He became into tempted in all techniques as we are, yet He by no skill sinned. He no longer in user-friendly terms became into tortured till now being nailed to a flow & left to die, yet interior the backyard of Gethsemene, He took on the sins of the full international. He became right into a sinless God who had by no skill felt sin or discomfort or sadness, yet became into made to experience all of the human thoughts & all of the shame of all human sin. As scripture says, God won't be able to stay with sin. This became into the sacrifice He made for us... to as quickly as "walk a mile in our shoes", experience the sins of the international and permit Himself to be sacrificed for us. he's the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the international. via this unselfish act, Jesus is deemed worth to open the Lamb's e book of existence and sit down upon the throne of judgment on the great White Throne Judgment. So Jesus became into an harmless sacrifice who paid the death penalty for people who would pick for to obey the Gospel (Jesus' death, burial and resurrection) via repentance, baptism in Jesus' call and obtain the infilling of the Holy Spirit because of the fact the e book of Acts exhibits returned and returned. Jesus created this New start, (being born returned) so as that shall we enter an eternity with Him.

Yes

The whole mythology is bizarre. Surely God could have found a less gruesome way to demonstrate the saving nature of God's grace. Catholicism is the only religion in the world that uses a tortured man as a symbol, and Protestantism is almost as bad. The whole thing is sadistic and reeks of human sacrifice.

Yes, because he was the perfect, complete sacrifice, and was found worthy in the eyes of the Father.

Well, by all accounts it hurt quite a lot, so yeah. A sacrifice doesn't have to be (permanently) fatal, it just has to require that you give a whole lot.