RE: Was Jesus' sacrifice really a sacrifice at all?
October 28, 2010 at 2:45 am
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2010 at 2:48 am by Rayaan.)
(October 26, 2010 at 12:23 pm)Ace Wrote: Realistic: Jesus existed but had no magical powers of any kind. Was an ordinary man like any other and spouting bollocks, pulling off magic tricks and started to become a bit of a nuisance and a threat. So the Romans decided to remove this little problem through execution by crucifixion like it has with many thousands of others. This made jesus into a martyr (which wasn't the intention of the Romans) and now not only has this given birth to a new religion with it's own martyr and symbol. That little problem became a rather large one. Jesus did not sacrifice himself, he was executed for being a pest.
I believe that Jesus and all the other messengers of God have a good character, and they are truthful, because this is how they are portrayed in the religious books and in the narrations of their Companions. That's why I don't believe that Jesus performed any magic tricks to deceive people (as if he was doing miracles).
Even though I'm a little bit skeptical about some of the miracle stories of the prophets, because of possible fabrications during the passage of time, I still believe that they would be able to do such things by the will and permission of God. I was not there at the time and that's why I can't confidently say what is true and not true about the life of Jesus.
Also, if there are so many people who believe in the same events and connect those events to the same person, and all the separate written accounts match with each other, and they come from trustworthy people, then, I think there's a pretty good chance that what I'm reading are true events. At the same time, I don't deny that a lot of the stories could be false or misleading also. There could be different versions of a particular event as reported by different people and that would reduce the accuracy of such a thing happening.
The sacrifice of Jesus is one of those things which contradicts the Quran (in the following verse) which says:
That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of God;" - but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not. [Surah 4:156-159]
Why is there such a contradiction (between the Bible and Quran)? I don't know. But you can decide that for yourself.
