If He chose to die for us why did it have to be such a brutal death? Why couldn't He have picked a painless one instead? Thoughts? Opinions? @lilygrace, @Ferris Buller, I'm calling you from the other thread that this point was brought up.
Why Did Jesus Choose The Cross?
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lilygrace
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Going by what I'm taught its about sacrifice and taking punishment and hell,
Yeah I actually started thinking shortly after I posted this thread but I wasn't really sure and it's a legit question in my mind.
Because God is righteous and just, he absolutely must punish sin. If he were to let a single sin go unpunished, he would be unjust. And so the wages of sin is eternal, soul-crushing death in hell. The wages of sin is eternal separation from God and the unending wrath of God.
The penalty for our sins has been completely and totally paid. We do not have to pay for our sins because Jesus did it for us.
The penalty for our sins has been completely and totally paid. We do not have to pay for our sins because Jesus did it for us.
Wrangler
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Leave it to the Savior of the World to turn a symbol of oppression and death into a symbol of hope and eternal life.
Jesus had to die for our sins and in this cruel manor which the Romans placed upon Him. Jesus knew His fate before hand and the suffering He must endure.
So then that still doesn't answer my original question though. If He had died another (less brutal) way it wouldn't have worked? I guess I just don't like seeing my Savior suffering that much that's why I don't watch a lot of movies about it. It makes me sad and I get all teary eyed.
Randy Kluth
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Jesus had to forgive every sin. Since he couldn't experience every sin that everybody in history has experienced, he had to experience something representative of the worst sins. Experiencing it, he could forgive it. Had he not experienced it, what would he be forgiving, except what others have suffered?
Stumpmaster
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Hi April_Rose.
FYI, and as you may have heard at some point, there is a need for the Cross to feature in the death of Christ in association with the Tree of Life mentioned in Genesis, Proverbs, and Revelation.
It is the death of Christ that gives His saints eternal life and restores their right to the Tree of Life lost after the Fall.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Act 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree.
Act 10:39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
Act 13:28-30 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. (29) And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. (30) But God raised him from the dead:
Gal 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:
1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
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Jn 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
To heal my pain, He had to suffer it Himself. What an awesome God we have!
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