@Greatest I am,
DiscipleDave wrote:So i am still waiting to hear these MISTAKES that Jesus made, as you seem to think, and accuse Him of doing?
Greatest I am wrote:Tell us please, if I were to ask you to let me suffer for a harm or sin you had done, IOW, if I asked you to abdicate your own responsibility for your own actions, would I be asking you to do a good thing or an evil thing?
Would I be doing something good or something evil?
i'm sure you are not going to like the answer i give.
A judge sits at his bench and is fixing to convict a girl to go to jail for one year. And the Father of that girl stands up and says, "I would like to pay the penalty for my daughter and go to jail for a year"
Tell me, is that judge Good or evil by allowing that Father to pay for the penalty so that his daughter does not suffer the consequences of her own actions?
What you seem to not understand is, that when God set up sacrificing under the old covenant, it was a means to deter people from committing sins. If a person was going to commit a sin, they would have to kill the life of an animal so that they are forgiven for that single sin. Another determent to committing sin, would be, if they did, and could not afford to sacrifice or pay for a sacrifice, then they would not be able to be forgiven for that sin. So they made sure they did not sin, because they could not afford to sacrifice their livelihood or pay for one.
The problem of sacrifice under the old covenant, was that the rich could afford to live in sins, as long as they had means to sacrifice living animals. The poor however, if they even accidentally committed a sin, could not afford to get that sin forgiven by a sacrifice of a living animal, so their sins just compounded, with no way to be forgiven. No way to go to Heaven. The Pharisees and Sadducee, which were RICH, did not have compassion on anyone who could not afford to sacrifice something to have a particular sin forgiven, they were "Letter of the law" orientated.
So when Jesus showed up. MOST people were lost, no hope, no way to have their sins forgiven, no possible way they can go to Heaven. Jesus taught another doctrine, the New Covenant. So that the lost could be Saved, Jesus was going to end Sacrificing for good, by sacrificing His own self, for the lost people, and not only to the lost of Israel, but extend this invitation to the Gentiles as well. Thousands of those who could not afford to sacrifice loved this new doctrine, so that they might have a way to go to Heaven.
Tell me Greatest I am, would you sacrifice yourself to save your own child? You would if you Truly Loved that child. Jesus Truly LOVED all of us humans, and was willing to give His life for us, as a living sacrifice. He agreed to this before the Earth was ever even created. He even did this for those who do not believe in Him.
Just because you don't understand, because you can't see the big picture, does not mean God does not know what He is doing. Woe to those who doubt one verse in Scriptures. The Word of God is a Road Map to get to Heaven, those who doubt that Road Map will never get there, even though they 100% believe they will.