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Why would Jesus give his life and not his eternal life so we can return to live with god cause we are all going to die anyway so true sacrifice would be to give his eternal life wouldn't it?
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∙ 12y ago
Well would you give your life to save us all if you had to? He is one with God, who knows best. If the Lord wanted to give His eternal life then her would have. Giving His human life on Earth was part of His master plan, and we have no place to question it.
AnswerYour question is an excellent one, but is confused between the role of Jesus and the role of God the Father.Christians believe in a Trinitarian Godhead, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. One God yet in three persons. So it is probably easier to answer your question from another direction.
If Jesus was simply human then the Cross would not make any sense at all. God the Father would be sacrificing someone else on the Cross - Jesus, a simple human. This is not the act of a loving God but of a false god who demanded justice and appeasement. If Jesus is divine, and the gospels make a very strong case that he is, then God sacrificed himself on the Cross - and that truly is an act of unconditional, ulimate love that we assocoate with God.
Another question is what 'eternal' means. It doesn't mean 'everlasting'. It actually means 'existing outside time'. For God, being eternal means existing outside of time (just like, as Einsteiing showed,something travelling at the speed of light would do). But, just like light, God can also interact with us, inside the connstraints of time.
So we should ask, what is the reason why Jesus was sent? Contrary to your idea, Jesus did give up his eternal life for us. He left the eternality of heaven and became human. Jesus, as Emmanuel ("God with us") lived a life of human struggling and pain. On the Cross it was God himself who took the suffering of all on his shoulders, and who died a painful death, just like many before and since. By doing that, God could enter his own world, giving up eternality, and being one of us. So when we pray to God for help, he knows first hand our struggles and problems.
The question is, though, why go back to being eternal afterwards? There is one simple reason. At the Cross death was vanquished or ever. If Jesus/God remained dead, there would be no hope. We might as well shut all the churches, do what we like to others, and then curl up and die. But by Jesus' resurrection, however, we now know categorically that death is not the end,and that one day we will return to God ourselves, and be part of that eternal state of being at God's side.
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