Jesus paid it all🙏🏻♥️
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This logic doesn't fit well with me. Almighty God has to sacrifice Jesus in order to have a payment for the sins of mankind? Why couldn't he just forgive each one of us on an individual basis based on our individual actions?
Religion has to be reasonable and easily explained. This concept is absurd to me and seems more like something Europeans at that time would believe, not the people of the area Jesus was from.
I also find it peculiar that both Jews and Muslims believe in strict monotheism and God not requiring anything under any circumstance per the definition of "God".
I don't buy this one. I haven't since I was a kid. Just doesn't make any sense.
All sin has a penalty, just as all crimes should. God did not have to sacrifice Jesus (and this is where some Christians really need to read and take into account all of Scripture) Jesus, who is God come in the flesh, chose to pay the penalty for our sin Himself. As He said, John 10: 11 - 18
If Jesus is God in the Flesh why would he yell "Why have you forsaken me?" I don't understand this.
So God comes in the flesh to be a human, then gets tempted by Satan (Absurd to even think about Satan even attempting to tempt God), then gets sacrificed and asks Himself why He's forsaken Himself?
And He chooses to sacrifice His human body to pay for sins that He Himself requires payment for? What?
Again, no reasonable logic here. What makes far more sense to me in this specific context of monotheism is the Jewish and Muslim version of it. Even the Sikhs believe in One and One God only.
I've been waiting 30+ years for someone to reasonably make sense of the "God in flesh requiring payment to God in spirit yet God is one*.
That's a good question, and one that many raised in either Judaism or Islam ask all the time. He was quoting King David (Psalms 22- This Psalm is called the Crucifixion Psalm because of its explicit description of what a crucified person would have felt) as a teaching tool. God has three Persona, (dimensions, if you will) They are distinct, yet united. Sacrificing His human body for sin is a hard concept to grasp, but this illustration might help: A judge convicts an adult child of his of a traffic violation that requires payment of a fine. He and the son or daughter both know justice needs to be served, but the adult child does not have the means to pay the fine. The judge passes the sentence, then pays the fine himself after removing his Judge robe....
https://www.keithferrin.com/blog/simple_explain_trinity
How come the concept of 3 Gods was not a thing prior to the New Testament other than in Pagan circles? Why are Jews strict monotheists?
These analogies are human rationalizations. The bottom line is it makes zero sense. God is not subject to laws. By definition, He is above all constraints or else there is no God.
The idea that He had to manifest in flesh and had to pay for the sins of mankind means he is subject, and not God.
The judge in your story needs to sentence his son because he is subject to the law that was created by others. God is not subject to anything.
You cannot claim to be monotheist and rationalize these things. It's ridiculous.