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Christians say that Jesus had to shed His blood for our sins to be forgiven. What if we hadn't killed Him?

So, when I ask why Jesus had to die, why God couldn't just wave His hands and say, poof, say you're sorry and you can go to heaven!- Christians tell me that to wash away our sin, Jesus had to die, or something along those lines. So, for us to get into heaven, we had to kill Jesus. But if we had greeted him warmly, subscribed to his teachings, and learned to love each other without killing him- then we would be doomed to Hell?

How do you make sense of this paradox- that heaven requires murder, while love would lead to Hell?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It was all based on the whole Adam and Eve sinning and taking part of the tree of good and evil. If Jesus didn't prove a point to his dad. We would of all had first row seats to 'hell'.

    Let us become logical now-

    God is not necessary to explain the origins of the universe, and that the Big Bang is a consequence of the laws of physics alone.

    Source(s): The Grand Design, by, the man who studies matter and black holes for a living, and the contributor to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, Stephen Hawking!
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    First. What if we hadn't killed Him?

    It happen! And it happen as written.

    An you can not see that!

    How do you make sense of this paradox- that heaven requires murder, while love would lead to Hell?

    22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

    (He 9.22).

    18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

    (1 Co 1.18).

    23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— 26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

    (He 9.23–28).

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    If you compare your mortal thoughts to an immortals thoughts. I guess your a God too ? Go kiss satan and tell him you want to be just like him, when you grow up. All alone worshiping yourself. You question things from a living point of view, God isn't a mortal living being. You fear death, for you it's the end. God is ever lasting, so death is only a step for the living to join him. Not a scary end. Can you see how you didn't think this one out ?

  • 1 decade ago

    In the same way they can subscribe to a belief that they do not have to make any attempt to follow the lifestyle, path and teachings of this man and that if they just say they knew he was here they will get a ticket. They seriously think that the thousands of years of preperation for the sacrifice was just there to show a certain group that they couldn't do it. So when the living example of the fact that we can follow those laws came to show his people it could be done and that he understood the parts that the Hebrew teachers kept screwing up, it just means it's okay, we can actually just throw the whole history of this away. Never mind that our Creator told so many generations that He was never going to change and his plan was solid, and to get into his haven we needed to behave.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Jesus died in perfect love for man and gave His life to show this. A wave of God's hand would have erased your memory and you would have no appreciation of the world around you and would not have learned anything. Why would you want this? Jesus died to relate to you, because you could not relate to Him for He is God and can do all things. But you are like a worm trying to be a man or a god. It is foolish to even think about.

  • 1 decade ago

    Jesus was SENT...as a sacrifice...

    to undo the damage that Adam did...

    Adam was perfect and cost us...death...

    Genesis 2; 16,17

    Jesus also perfect [ in heaven / Proverbs 8;22-31 ] was SENT to pay the price to have death removed...

    It can be looked on as God's legality...

    Although in no way as important as what

    Jesus did, it might be compared to...you parked your car illegally...you did wrong...it got towed away...impounded...then you had to PAY to get it released...NO PAY / NO RELEASE.

    Jesus paid. Our release is soon.

  • 1 decade ago

    God's perfect justice required a perfect sacrifice to atone for humankind's sins. Trouble was, we couldn't supply that sacrifice from among ourselves, because we humans are all sinners (imperfect). So God, in His great love and mercy, sent His own beloved, perfect, sinless Son to take on Himself the penalty for our sins.

  • MPH
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    When your premises are wrong then so will your conclusion. You don't have this figured out because you don't understand the beginning.

    Jesus came to give His life for many. Jesus gave His life for many. (Not everyone!)

    Mark 10:45

    "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."

  • Gary P
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    First, God knows the end from the beginning, and therefore the scripture says, "Christ died before the foundations of the earth".

    However, when He came to earth to the Jews as their promised Messiah, He would have set up His Earthly Kingdom of 1000 years at that Time...but they rejected Him and along with the Romans, who represented the rest of the world, "Crucified the Lord of Glory".

    Again, God made the offer to the Jews, but knew in advance they would reject Him. As you are doing so far. I pray that changes.

  • Joel S
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I believe it was to get rid of the need to constantly have to sacrafice animals.

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