Tuesday, June 14, 2011

God gave his only son to save us from our sins

I have heard those eleven words over and over throughout sunday school, always wondering what it means. They never specified which sins in particular, or why, even though our slate has been wiped clean, there is still a lot of sin. But then again, why did Jesus die on the cross?
I think it was a sign of god's peace. He sacrificed his son, and there was no bloodshed over it. When the Israelites imagined their savior, they imagined a warrior. Jesus was showing them he was the opposite, a pacifist. He would not conquer his enemies by killing them, but by convincing them of his ideas. Killing leaves behind dead bodies and angry friend and family at the killer. Convincing them leaves nothing bad in its wake. Jesus couldn't have killed those who tried to crucify him, not because of a lack of strength, but because it would go against his teachings and make the whole teaching irrelevant if the teacher was hippocraticical.  

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