KCU/03/SMAJ

Topic 10: Why did Jesus have to die?

Question: Based on what you know from the Bible & other sources (including the Theology Matters readings), why do you think Jesus had to die? (Be sure to do more research into the issue. If the group cannot come to a consensus, feel free to have different group members each express their own opinions.)

Jon Alexander's contribution:

	Jesus died for our sins.

	The death of Christ has been believed to be the fundamental related to the moral possibilities of justification.

	That he provided to five his Son so that he might righteously forgive.

	From god’s point view, however, every sinner in principle- in his moral status- is forgiven from the beginning and the basis of the fact, which God in Christ from eternity himself became responsible for the foreknown sin of the man whom he was to create. 

	He became as it were sin itself, treat him as if he was sin and in our sin’s stead he died. 

	Expressed the passion of the divine heart engaged at suck measureless cost in saving man.

	If God can love, or if he is holy, he can suffer.

	Because he is infinitely holy and loving, and such is in sensitive relationship to his creature, he is the Supreme Sufferer in the Universe.

	Jesus death was voluntary

Mildride Macena's contribution: Since the beginning, God has planned to save men. When Adam and Eve have sinned it was the lamb that paid for their sins. The lamb was a sacrifice to cover their sins. In order for sin to be forgiven blood has to be shed. The sacrifice should be perfect. The lamb that was killed for Adam’s sin knew nothing from right and wrong. He was blameless. The lamb was a substitute for Adam and Eve. Jesus was sinless and therefore He was the right sacrifice. He was also our substitute; he was the only one who could pay for our penalty. The punishment for sin is death. Romans 3:23said that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Jesus was made perfect. Through him we are saved.

Stephanie Cherubin's contribution: Source:The Cross of Christ by John R. W. Stott

According to different people Jesus died for different reasons :

According to the Jewish leaders:

   - Jesus was a blasphemer
   -they killed him because they envied him
   - Jesus had a disrespectful attitude toward the law
   - Jesus made provocative claims
   -Jesus' teachings were dangerous and even subversive( having the ability to overthrow completely)
   -Jesus' teachings were against God
   

According to the Romans:

  -Jesus was proclaiming himself king of the Jews, thus challenging the authority of Caesar
  - His crime was sedition(conduct or language inciting rebellion against the state)
  - Jesus' crime was against Caesar
  - Jesus was a revolutionary thinker and a preacher and some even considered Him a revolutinary activist as well
  -Jesus disturbed the status quo- the existing state of affairs
  

Bassically to the groups above Jesus died as a law-breaker but in reality He died as the victim of small minds, and as a martyr to His own greatness.

Jesus went to the cross voluntarily According to the Octavius Winslow,God delivered Jesus up to die for love.

 - John 3:16- "For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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