Was Jesus' Death a sacrifice?

Something that never existed cannot do anything!

The bible is what is called "Faction” A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!

There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!

There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?

Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!

At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!

Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?

Christianity is an invention of the Italians and that is why it came from the Holy ROMAN Catholic church!

Please realize that those claims for the Old historians are worthless since they were not even born until long after everyone in the stories would have been so long dead!

Josephus AD 37 – AD 100

Tacitus AD 56 – AD 120

Suetonius - 69 – 130 AD

Pliny the Younger, 61 AD – 112 AD

Justin Martyr (Saint Justin) AD103–165 AD

Lucian - AD 120 -180 AD but he was hostile to Christianity and openly mocked it.

Pamphilius AD 240-309 AD

Eusebius AD 263 – 339 AD

Photius AD 877 – 886 AD

Thallus - But there are no actual record of him except a fragment of writing which mentions the sack of Troy [109 BC] Showing that he was clearly not alive in biblical times.

Some even try to use Seneca. 4 BCE – 65 CE but as a Stoic Philosopher he opposed religion yet made not a single mention of a Jesus or Christianity!

Even funnier is trying to claim Celsus AD ? – 177 AD Who said that Jesus was a Jew who’se mother was a poor Jewish girl whose husband, who was a carpenter, drove her away because of her adultery with a Roman soldier named Panthera. She gave birth to an illegitimate child named Jesus. In Egypt, Jesus became learned in sorcery and upon his return presented himself as a god.

Jesus' life was taken from him, so, of course it was a sacrifice.

We all can live again. Jesus proved that. But, that doesn't mean we all want to die either!

If you think nothing was lost and no sacrifice was made I suggest you get yourself flogged then carry a 100lb block of wood 1 mile or so, get nailed to a cross and then slowly die over the next 6 hours of blood loss and asphyxiation. This was an immense sacrifice which he felt as he was very human.

Yes he was given up as a sacrifice at the cross. The difference here is that unlike us, God had the power to raise him from death.

* Jesus, being perfectly innocent of all transgression, experienced the rejection and condemnation of the very people He was trying to save.

* Jesus, being utterly innocent of all wrong, experienced the physical torture at the hands of the Romans; including, but not limited to the torture of the cross.

* Jesus, being perfectly, morally pure, received upon Himself the corruption of all humanity, both past and future - to the point that He became identified as sin (2 Corinthians 5:21 ).

* Jesus, being perfectly innocent of any sin, experienced the rejection of His eternal Father in heaven (Matthew 27:46 , Mark 15:34 ).

* Jesus, being without sin, experienced the consequence of physical corruption in His death.

We, who deserve such punishments, would find them unbearable. How much more infinitely excruciating would the suffering be for the one Who is morally pure; utterly innocent of all crime?

Ultimately, all that matters is that God counts the sacrifice to be worthy to satisfy perfect justice; to which all humans have been held accountable for our own sin.

well these kind of questions are difficult to be answered. once, things are attached to peoples faith and society, they are best to be left un-judged. :) . But, my personal opinion - No, it wasn't a sacrifice. No offense to anyone. :)

Jesus gave up his perfect human body. If you suffered and died you would call it a sacrifice.

Yeah Jebus cheated death because he's God. But he sure fooled dim Christians.

God never loses anyone

the soul,spirit goes to heaven or hell to be resurrected

the notion that death is the end is atheist belief

God left the option open to pay for ones own sins instead because of free will