(May 15, 2010 at 7:26 am)Ace Wrote: What did he sacrifice exactly? He dies on some cross and three days later he becomes immortal.
Christians keep saying jesus sacrificed himself but what did he sacrifice exactly?
Jesus being God was pure that is sinless and He became as sin and took on our guilt so that we might be redeemed if we choose Him as savior. I know that you do not believe in God the creator so you struggle with the concept of sin against Him and things being as they are the above statement is as simple as I can make it. Maybe this will help. If you helped someone and it injured your reputation even though you did nothing wrong then you sacrifced part of yourself for the good of another. This in a way is what Jesus did for us except He sacrificed who He was (sinless) to become as sin which He did not have to do, so we could have salvation. Jesus who was an eternal being experiance death, death as a man, which is frightful for anyone. He gave up His right for an unbroken life and died as a punishment for becoming as sin so we could be redeemed.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
