Billy to Bible study teacher: Why did God have to send himself down to earth to become his own son to sacrifice himself just to convince himself to forgive us?
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….because there was no one else pure and holy enough.
I don’t understand the comment “just to convince himself to forgive us”!!!?
that part makes no sense to me. He needed no convincing because the Plan was made “before the foundation of the world “ …so….the Lamb was slain before the beginning.
Besides so he could be the 'life for life' required by the law, he took humanity upon himself to become a compassionate High Priest...Billy to Bible study teacher: Why did God have to send himself down to earth to become his own son to sacrifice himself...?
I agree with @Helen, that's just nonsense....just to convince himself to forgive us?
Billy to Bible study teacher: Why did God have to send himself down to earth to become his own son to sacrifice himself just to convince himself to forgive us?
….because there was no one else pure and holy enough.
I don’t understand the comment “just to convince himself to forgive us”!!!?
that part makes no sense to me. He needed no convincing because the Plan was made “before the foundation of the world “ …so….the Lamb was slain before the beginning.
Yes. ↓↓↓Isn’t atonement an answer too? Or to do away with animal sacrifice?
Like them but 'unflawed'! He was spotless and clean from his beginning as a lamb or the Lamb provided:Yes. ↓↓↓
"...He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people." Hebrews 2:17
Besides so he could be the 'life for life' required by the law
Like them but 'unflawed'!
What is nonsense is the impossibility of God dying. If Jesus were God, who raised him from the dead?
The 'life for life' standard necessary means the sacrifice must be made by one who can die. This being cannot be God because Scripture tells us God does not change. Death is the ultimate change.
The 'life for life' standard necessary means the sacrifice must be made by one who can die. This being cannot be God because Scripture tells us God does not change. Death is the ultimate change.
He was a part of. It was only His body part that died.
It is not an act of injustice, because only a pure being could pay the penalty for the sins of a flawed person. That is why the sin offering law required a lamb/goat without any physical imperfections to be sacrificed under the former covenant. The wages of sin is death(Rom. 6:23), and the only life that could truly atone for people violating what were spiritual laws(Rom. 7:14) was the life of a God Being, since such a being was spiritually flawless. That is why Christ had to live a human life of moral perfection before He could qualify as that sacrifice. Christ and His Father took all the risks, and we all do as human beings is benefit from it, even though we don't deserve it. That is not an injustice; it is the greatest act of love anybody has ever made or ever will make in the history of the universe.Then it is an act of injustice, to accept a unflawed life for a flawed life. Honestly, the necessity or practicality of the sacrifice being unflawed, is asserted but goes against Scripture.
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
God took on the likeness of human form and that human form died.What is nonsense is the impossibility of God dying. If Jesus were God, who raised him from the dead?
The 'life for life' standard necessary means the sacrifice must be made by one who can die. This being cannot be God because Scripture tells us God does not change. Death is the ultimate change.
It was the Word who was sent to become human, not the Most High God. The Most High did not become His own Son
The wages of sin is death(Rom. 6:23), and the only life that could truly atone for people violating what were spiritual laws(Rom. 7:14) was the life of a God Being, since such a being was spiritually flawless.
God took on the likeness of human form and that human form died.
After all it was a silly question.I don’t understand the comment “just to convince himself to forgive us”!!!?