Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.
Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!
Good question should receive interesting responses to this one.to what or to whom was Jesus sacrificed?
He sacrificed Himself. The 'words on the cross' narrative is most likely a misinterpretation, or didn't even happen. I'm not decided if I think it is an 'addition' (to appease certain influential parties at the time of writing) or a misunderstanding of what Jesus was saying, or simply made up without motive. In any case, Jesus sacrificed Himself, because He knew He would be crucified, but didn't escape, even when the Apostles would rather have Him not do it. His followers did not understand the nature of Jesus even at that time, but anyways, that is the answer as far as I know.
'Sacrifice' has different meanings. You are correct in that this type of 'sacrifice' is not the same as say the Temple sacrifices, it's totally different. It means that Jesus sacrificed Himself for people, ie those who believe in Him.So he sacrificed himself to whom or to what? He doesn't seem to mention anything about being a sacrifice. He says he will be killed. He doesn't say he will be a sacrifice. This seems to be a teaching that arose afterwards, so the question is if he was a sacrifice, to whom or to what was he sacrificed?
The argument could be that Jesus shouldn't be considered to have been sacrificed at all in light that he is attested to as one still living.to what or to whom was Jesus sacrificed?
That interpretation is, biblically speaking, impossible.I thought it was common knowledge that Jesus was sacrificed for the sin of the world, they use to sacrifice animals in the old testament, so Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice that did away with animal sacrifices of the old testament.
Jesus Christ's atonement on the Cross was for mankind, because of our sin, we had been separated from God, and the only to bridge the gap between Gods perfection and humanity was for Jesus, being perfect and God, to die as a sacrifice.
The Romans and Jews are just props in the story.So the Romans sacrificed him to what God?
First of all, I think you might need a proper understanding of the word sacrifice as it is intended from the context of scripture. A sacrifice is: "an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy."He was killed though. He knew he would be killed. He didn't kill himself. So I am asking if it is the teaching that he was a sacrifice, and he didn't kill himself, to whom or what is he sacrificed to?
That maybe true to you, but that is how it is for my church, or the church I use to belong to, and lets face it, who is right and who is wrong, its anyone's guess.That interpretation is, biblically speaking, impossible.