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Originally Posted by Dolores de Barriga
Hello Landover,
I come to you with a question,
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And not for the first time
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As a child, I was taught about Jesus' Sacrifice. He died on the cross for our sins, and He resurrected on the third day - on Sunday morning, after He died Friday evening - so that would be after a day and a half of being dead.
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Indeed! A magnificent sacrifice: a miracle, a demonstration of Godly Power and the potential for mankind to regain Paradise!
Well remembered! And so clearly!, Now, What's the question?
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And this is something I cannot wrap my mind around.
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Based on your past postings, this is a common occurrence for you. It must be a constant worry to you and those who look after you.
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I reach the conclusion that for an eternal Being, to be dead for one and a half day would be the equivalent of me poking my own finger with a needle for a split second - only once in my lifetime.
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I'm sure you must have had a prick in your fingers before now, and have realised that this has no Salvific value whatsoever, and because you don't understand anything, you have no followers (I am not counting Facebook or Twitter or as I say "Where the vapid congregate.")
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How is that a true sacrifice,
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How is it not?
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if Jesus only suffered for a very short time - from the point of view of an immortal Being - and then got up and was totally fine, and will be fine for all eternity?
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You seem to have an unhealthy fascination with self-harm and pain: When I next see one of our Christian Doctors, I'll bring up your case.
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When I think of a true sacrifice, I'm thinking of a mother dying so that her child her live. Dying and staying dead.
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How would that help? The kid doesn't have a Mother! Yet we have Jesus!
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Or of someone giving away their own meal so that someone else can eat it
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I did that once - I was at Scout camp and I thought someone had put poison mushrooms in the meal. (as it was it turned out they were them "Magic mushrooms" and everyone except me saw visions of Jesus and Heaven...
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In general, sacrifice = giving up something for good. Without the possibility of regaining it shortly after.
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You see, Jesus does not do things "in general" He does things you can only dream about.
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Please help me understand, why are we supposed to call a "sacrifice" something that was completely meaningless from Jesus' point of view?
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You've explained it yourself. Being dead for 2 minutes, or being dead for 2000 years is unremarkable - what is remarkable is "coming back again!"
Now I reckon that coming back from the dead takes superhuman effort, and not the sort of thing even Jesus would want to do more than once.
So He spent a lot of time on Earth (a sacrifice of His important time doing things in Heaven) On Earth he spoke to everyone, and when you think how clever Jesus is and how unworthy and stupid a lot of people are (take yourself, for example) then that was a big sacrifice
And then He has to set up the circumstances - in advance, i.e. at Creation - so that he will be born and then be prosecuted and die. What a sacrifice - that apparently took about 33 years of his valuable time.
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I don't want to burn in Hell, but I fear I will for having such thoughts!
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Meah! You're a hopeless case, get over it. Perhaps you could move house to some warm part of the world to start getting used to the heat.