Why would a loving God want a human to be sacrificed for others sins?

Question

Why would a loving God want a human to be sacrificed for others sins?

Answer 1

The heart of the Lord is mercy, and as He is merciful, He tells us to also be merciful.  It is caring for the welfare of others the same way that you care for your own welfare: This is ot love your neighbor as you love yourself, which is the royal law.(James.2:8)  And greater love has no person than this; that a person lay down their life for their friends.(John.15:13)

Answer 2

God is Holy and must punish sin. But God will accept a sinless human sacrifice. But only God is sinless. So God took on human form in the person of Jesus Christ and received the punishment for the sins for those who would repent (change their ways) and believe the gospel (New Testament).

Answer 3

You answered your own question.

Answer 4

He didn't send a human. He sent Himself in the form of Jesus.

Answer 5

If you read the Gospel a loving God became flesh to overcome death for the creation he loved.

God is righteous man is not separation from life (God) causes death. It is the reason God provides the atonement that man through the righteousness of Christ can be joined to God in righteousness for eternal life without disease and death.

Man's unrighteousness inherited him death God who is righteous will not be joined to sin.

God the Son became flesh lord Jesus Christ to overcome temptation, sin and death as a man under law.

Those who accept the atonement are made new through faith and joined to God through the righteousness of Christ.

The wages of sin is death. The Son paid that penalty of death with his righteous blood to bring us to God through his righteousness.

Answer 6

He sacraficed His own Son so you could know how much He really loved you. Get it?

Answer 7

it's all about LOVE.  

Answer 8

His motivation is love.

Answer 9

He wouldn't.

That's why it's a ridiculous myth.

Answer 10

I asked this very same question to a priest; well, actually I asked "How would you explain to someone who isn't Christian and never grew up Christian why your God would take pleasure in the torture and death of his own son?"  I had it explained like this to me: say there is a train going down the tracks and there is a group of workers on that track.  You can pull a lever and switch the train to another track, but your child is playing on that track.  Would you switch the train and sacrifice your son or daughter to save the group of workers?  The person who explained this to me said that it can be analogous to this because say that humanity was on such a bad track (sin and all that) that the only way to save them and snap them out of the way they are going is to sacrifice his son.  Now, this still doesn't make complete sense to me because if God is almighty and all powerful, why would he HAVE to sacrifice his son, and if he didn't HAVE to, why would he want to?   It doesn't really make that much sense to me, but I thought that the explanation given to me was the best one I've heard yet.  

Answer 11

because he wanted all of you to put him in a pedestal... and he got it

Answer 12

So he prove his unlimited love through the resurrection.

Answer 13

That depends on your conception of God, your faith system, and so on.  Assuming you are operating under Christian theology and referring to Christ - one commonly suggested explanation could be that Christ was not merely human, but certainly divine - and as such, closer to God than any other.  The suffering and brutality in that frame could then be perceived as self-inflicted ultimately, if Jesus were little apart from God all along - and God sent himself through h**l, so to speak, for us.  We could likewise ponder why the Jews are a chosen race, or all non-Christians are pagans, and on and on...  

If Jesus were merely an enlightened individual or prophet as those of other faiths believe - you could still picture the epitomy of ignorance and sin (unconsciousness) demonstrated in the brutal slaughter of the gentlest and most caring of souls.  Haven't the greatest souls ultimately set such examples?

It's a sensitive topic, and your answer will vary widely not only outside Christianity but within it as well.    Just some of my thoughts:

If you're hungry for more : What if the enlightened Whole of us worked together for something far greater - all faiths, all races :

would I be considered , like Obama is, by some, the AntiChrist?

http://www.realneo.us/news/2007/02/05/pr...

again, tough questions - my best friend is certain I will suffer the tribulation and not be taken in the Rapture even though I love Jesus and respect everything he stood for deeply.  I guess I'll tribulate in the most loving, serving , cool way I can , then.  

With billions of others.

I often feel that Love is the only religion you need.  Even atheists could be welcome in that sphere.

Answer 14

I hear people ask this question all the time. Jesus could have said no. He could have called10,000 angles to come and get him but he didn't. He loves us so much that he was willing to die and be resurrected so that we could have eternal life. What is wrong with that. Could you have given your life for others?  

Answer 15

     In order to counterbalance the sin of Adam, Jesus had to die, not as a perfect child, but as a perfect man. Remember, Adam’s sin was willful, carried out with full knowledge of the seriousness of the act and its consequences.

Jesus had to make a mature, knowing choice to keep his integrity to Jehovah. (1 Corinthians 15:45, 47)



Of the many gifts you could ever hope to receive, there is one that stands out above all others. It is a gift from God to mankind. Jehovah has given us many things, but his greatest gift to us is the ransom sacrifice of his Son, Jesus Christ. (Matthew 20:28)

The ransom is the most valuable gift you could possibly receive, for it can bring you untold happiness and can fill your most important needs. The ransom is really the greatest expression of Jehovah’s love for you.

Jesus willingly gave his life on our behalf.  He did not remain dead.

On the third day, Jesus was raised back to life in order to present the value of his sacrifice to his Father. (Hebrews 9:24)  

Answer 16

would you die for someone you love so much?

Answer 17

In which book this you find this, I am not paying for Rev Jim Jones crimes and so do you. An atom good or bad will be rewarded for each of us.Life is a test and when we see others suffering we should help.And of course God is a Loving God.

Answer 18

In the past human sacrifice was practiced in all religions. As humans progress and become more civilized so does our religions.  

Answer 19

So that you can qualify for eternal life with Him. He said  wages of sin was death.

Jesus is God. It happened the way it was foretold in the Old Testament.

Answer 20

It really wasn't much of a sacrifice, really, was it?  God "sacrificed" himself to himself, they say... but all he did was take a bit of a beat down - no worse than the rest of them on Calvary Hill - then took a three day nap, and went back home to Heaven.  Doesn't seem like really all that big of a deal.

Answer 21

That Human was Him..He sacrificed Himself.

That plan was set in motion long before Christ lived.

Answer 22

when ?