What did Jesus SACRIFICE?

Nothing. At the start of his story he's in heaven with god, the greatest place to be. At the end of it he's still in heaven with god.

And he engineering the whole thing. And invented the concept of suffering, sin, repentence etc.

"Sacrifice" meanings losing something. He lost nothing.

You're right and some pretty good answers over here too.

It's kind of hard to argue this point since Jesus really got back whatever he sacrificed. He was never in real danger of losing anything. This is nowhere near the uncertainty that we humans face.

Nothing. Such an idea is patently stupid -- an immortal being cannot "die" for anyone's sins.

Humans (obviously) don't come back to life after being dead. Jesus is god -- he died knowing that he could simply resurrect himself at will, which hardly qualifies his melodramatic stick-nailing as a "sacrifice".

Such a hollow gesture is like giving your child a Christmas present, then deciding to return it after the weekend. And if the kid doesn't like it, you'll just set them on fire for the next thousand billion trillion years.

What a load of ****.

If Jesus had the courtesy to actually stay dead, it would have been far more meaningful. As it stands, Jesus' "sacrifice" is little more than a tawdry, disposable, insignificant parlor trick.

You should look into the details of His torture. It was excruciatingly painful. He didn't even take the painkiller he was offered on the cross. God didn't take any shortcuts and the devil certainly did tempt Jesus to take shortcuts in the wilderness. He didn't deserve any of it. You also have to remember there was spiritual aspect to as well, Jesus took all of mankind's sin upon Himself. He didn't have to do that. But He loved us and that was the only way to save us. He is a Good God and sin requires punishment -- yet God is also creative and made a way to keep the law by being righteousness for us. Jesus is our mediator, being fully God and fully man - able to bridge man back to God. There was no one else who could accomplish this task, but Him.

If the Biblical god-man Jesus did exist and did do what the Bible says, then he didn't sacrifice anything, he was temporarily inconvenienced.

He left His place of "comfort" to come to the earth to teach us what is necessary for us to join Him. He suffered in the human form as we do each day and as the Bible says, "in every way". Then He suffered the worst way to be put to death known to man. After which, He was separated from His Father for three days and nights. All of this just for you and me.

A weekend, also He got a hernia trying to roll away the stone that he almost made too heavy to lift.

He played dead for 3 days. Whoop dee freakin doo.

IF you created us would you come down and be human and let us spit on, beat you and then kill you. Or would you not let your creation kill you?

Jesus humbled himself and let his creation beat him (they hit God), spit on him (they spit on God) and then crucify him (they crucified God).

Would you let anything you created do this type thing to you? I would have a hard time letting something I made think it was over me in this way.

Will you submit and let me spit on you, beat you and then kill you right now? most would not. But God humbled himself to do this.

What sacrifice? let others beat and kill you and maybe you will learn this.

though i'm not a christian, i know the most legit answer to this question.

technically, he did lose his life. he just got another one seconds later.

same thing "will" happen to good christians. they go to heaven.

and he DID go through quite a bit of pain, i'd imagine... getting nailed to a block of wood like that? ouch.