Why Jesus died on the cross?
What should that be a God who sacrifices his own son in order to reconcile humanity?
On the cross of Jesus are the ghosts - that have been the first Christians experienced. "We ... preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and folly to Gentiles," Paul writes in his first letter to the church at Corinth (1 Cor 1:23). How stupid you must be a god to worship, which hangs on the cross? Or to trust a God who demands a human sacrifice in atonement? If you only see the cross, it is isolated from the context of Jesus' life, his message of the Kingdom of God and resurrection, this view only reasonable.
who believes in Jesus as those in which God has shown us who is willing to even begin to engage with the idea of self-revelation of God in a person sees, even the historical facts with new eyes.
Does God a sacrifice?
that it can not remotely be about a human sacrifice to appease with an angry God, Jesus has already made clear in his lifetime. Through Jesus, God heals diseases, assigns blame, save from suffering and death. The God of Jesus is the God of Israel, a God who freed. His name is Jehovah, God-for-us, he is a God of life.
Jesus' death on the cross, the consequence of his life and his message, as she is confronted with the sinister dynamics of disturbed relations between man and God and between people. They did not understand Jesus, his message seemed to those in power in religion and politics is not liberating but dangerous. This disturbed dynamics traditionally called "sin." Many people, especially many guardians of the true faith and true worship, can not accept Jesus' message. "He came into the world, but his own received him not." (John 1:00) But even in the face of impending death sentence betrays Jesus his message of victory of Yahweh, the God-for-us-da "over evil not, but is one with his life for them. He could have repeatedly had occasion to change your mind to always another way, but if he is the one in which the "God-for-us" to show willing, he has no alternative but ultimately his message the hard way " perform for us. " To ensure we retain the victory of God over evil, it may not deny, but must agree to his own death. He sacrifices his life so that we have salvation. He sacrificed his life for us because of our sins.
Jesus' death: a bridge between God and man
who believes in the self-revelation of God in Jesus, the opening up yet another dimension of the Cross: In time of extreme loneliness God reveals Himself God himself in Jesus as a God who is himself the suffering, the dying man. In the crucifixion of God overcomes the unbridgeable gap between God and the infinitely sublime to the suffering and dying people. Like nowhere else we see in view of the cross, God is with all our ways, for he has become one of us. Because Jesus was not full of days with his family and friends who held hands and prayer language, has died, but lonely, tortured, abandoned by God, as a criminal on the cross, he has all the tormented and tortured, all criminals, all God-forsaken us all can take. And just as God has transformed this sacrifice on the cross at Easter to a door to eternal life, he takes us there with.
Life conquers death
Without Easter, the whole story would have ended badly, of course dramatically: evil, sin, would have triumphed over the self-revealing God and when God led him to the absurd. For it is true: A fool who believed in a crucified God, for it would be a dead God. Jesus' death on the cross would become the victory of evil, the last "no" to life and love and therefore no sense at all if God had not turned him on Easter morning in a final victory of life.
The death on the cross - an Atonement?
And what about the Atonement? Yes, Jesus' death was an atoning death - compensation payment for our sins that we ourselves could never provide it. But not to appease God, but to free us from the power of evil and death! Something of a transfer fee that is paid for the club change of humanity from evil to God. When Jesus lives as the prototype of the "new man" represents consistently for us all to death the things that we fail every day, he takes all the suffering, all the blame, all the wretched life at himself. For people who see themselves as in need of redemption experience because they have to bear suffering and guilt have loaded up, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus are the absolute liberation. Of failure, despondency, the many opportunities that lack the right word, say the wrong time and wrong place at the wrong thing to do. Life is in all his glory at the same time a chain of failures in which we are constantly guilty to one another and from which there is no escape. From sickness and suffering to the biological death as a consequence of the whole mess there is no human involvement in fatal Ausweg.Diese grief, guilt and death of Jesus has broken - for us, because we can allow ourselves to take in his atoning death and his resurrection.
Jesus' death on the cross: effective sign of devotion of God for us humans
short, not God a sacrifice has taken, much less a human sacrifice. On the contrary, he be God-for-us, his liberation actions in the crucifixion has taken to the extreme and changed with the resurrection of the crucified our "no" to life in a victory of life and love. And, Because in Jesus God has revealed himself as a God who sacrifices himself for us, is Jesus' sacrifice on the cross at the same time the absolute end of all the other victims. Those who wanted the victim of God to add?
The early Christians have summarized their interpretation of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus in a song about Jesus, the is still sung today:
He was like God held firmly but not to be like God, but he was in the form of a servant, the likeness of men. His life was a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted and given Him the name which is above every name, so that all committed bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, her knees before the name of Jesus, and every mouth, "Jesus Christ is Lord" - to the glory of God the Father. (Phil 2:5-11)
Martina
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