Ive been having a lot of questions and doubts lately and i don't really have anyone that i can go to that i trust or that can give me an answer. Im a teenager and I've faced so many people trying to change my beliefs and views. Im a christian. Baptist to be exact. And I've always been told that Jesus Christ died for my sins so that i could have eternal life. But what does that mean? How did he die for me? Wasn't he killed because the people of his day just didn't like him? Didn't they say he was committing treason? If so, how is that for me? What part of that was for me? He spread the word and they didn't like that so they killed him. So, how does that give me eternal life? I know it sounds bad and wrong. But it doesn't sound like he died for me. How does being crucified save me? What does that have anything to do with my sins? Why does that make a pace in heaven. Being killed for treason or whatever doesnt really have anything to do with me. He didnt die for me, he died because of them, right?
Another question is about God. Why does it sound selfish? He put us here to worship him and love him and praise him and sing to him and etc. He sent his son to die. Why didn't he? If he loves us so much, why didn't he do it? Why did he have to send his son rather than himself?
Also, if God doesnt like sin and doesnt want us to do it, why does he allow it? If hes so hurt by it when we do, why does he let us? If he has control over everything, cant he do something about it?
Can someone please explain this to me. Logically. And i feel lost and i dont know where to go. It doesnt seem like Gods answering me or hearing me. Im trying to grow so i can worship him and love him and have a relationship with him but hes not helping me. Shouldnt he want to help?
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All of humanity is destined for Hell because of Adam and Eve's sin, and there is nothing any of us can do to change that. God would have been perfectly justified to allow that to happen, but he chose to save some instead ~ all of those who will put their faith in Jesus.
While the men responsible for putting him to death did it for their own reasons, they unwittingly were fulfilling prophesy and God's higher purpose of paying for your Salvation.
Read John chapter 6. Jesus said it twice ~ "No one can come to me unless The Father draws them."
This means that The Father does something first, before anyone comes to Christ. This is a very personal thing. I trust there was a time when you "really" believed ~ when you just"knew" that everything you heard about Jesus was true. Remember that experience, and try to understand what actually happened to you in light of John chapter 6. You had an actual encounter with The Father himself. In one moment He taught you who Jesus is, and brought you to him. He forgave your sins, and The Holy Spirit began residing within you.
Did you ever wonder why so many people don't believe? They can't! They don't have the ability, and neither did you until you had your encounter with God. I don't know about you, but I find this to be very humbling, and I can't adequately describe how it makes me feel to know that God loves me enough to save me.
Spend some time thinking about these things as you read them for yourself in your Bible. This is how you draw close to God and build your relationship with Him.
God is logical and also not logical. god is a miracle working God and logically you are a miracle,this planet is a miracle and the universe is a miracle. If you are looking for all that to make sense it does and it does not.Jesus died a supernatural death on the cross being made a curse for us he took the sins of the whole world even the people who rejected him since he is love and love always gives. he gave everything and that was just what it took to save us from hell and nothing less. God is not selfish to want us to worship him.God loved us so he died for us and he honors us with the his love and when we worship God he always gives us more than we give to him.He wants us to do that since that is what love does and love is the best for you. There is nothing better than worshiping God. In human terms compare it to the love between man and woman. They both give to each other and fill the needs of one another and worshiping God is like this,except the reason God wants us to worship is so we can be like him and have what is best not just for him and not us.He wants us to do that since that is what love does and love is the best for you. you have to have faith ad believe there is a reward of what you do when you follow god's word. You say why did not god make us just have a great time and not all this drama? Well the devil messed it up and man failed and so it was not God is was man and the devil but god who saved us.You say well God made it that way but no god is not able to lie or be less than he is so it had to be that way not because of God being selfish
There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!
There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!
He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?
Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!
Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!
At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!
Weather you believe it or not Jesus Christ has died for you, me and for all. But that will not benefit any of us unless a person will open his heart to Him and humbly invite Him in. "As many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God" John 1:12
God himself could not repurchase mankind, because that would have left us in much greater debt than ever!!! The sacrifice had to be equal to what was lost, not more than the loss . . .
Adam & Eve lost their right to perfect life when they disobeyed & followed Satan's rebellious course.
To repurchase the right to perfect life for *obedient* humans, Jesus came *as a human*, and sacrificed his *perfect, faithful, human life,* and thus repurchased the right to perfect life for *obedient* humankind:
"Why He Is So Important"
- Questions for Consideration
- No Ordinary Man
- Why a Divine Origin Necessary
- The Needed One Provided
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102006442
Jesus fulfilled many, many prophecies from hundreds of years before his birth. The Jews didn't want the Messiah God sent them, who would eventually rule from the heavens. They wanted a fleshly ruler right then to free them from the Roman yoke!
“My kingdom is no part of this world. If my kingdom were part of this world,
my attendants would have fought that I should not be delivered up to the Jews.
But, as it is, my kingdom is not from this source.”---John 18:26
"What Is God's Kingdom?"
- What God's Kingdom Is
- What Will God's Kingdom Do?
- When Does God's Kingdom Act?
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-teac...
God allows us to make up our own minds. If we couldn't, there would be no such thing as love. Our choices must be voluntary. We must learn to take responsibility for our own actions . . . as well as the consequences of them.