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- #21
Having or accepting that another innocent person suffer for the wrongs I have done, --- so that I might escape responsibility for having done them, --- is immoral.
Jesus came with a message from God the Father: Repentance for the forgiveness of sins. This announcement, that of turning away from sin, and forgiveness is yours, was novel and innovative news. Jesus insisted this was the New Covenant (Testament) between God and His people. Like anything new and innovative, it was met with opposition. Jesus was told to cease and desist. When he didn't take the hint he was crucified, and his blood became the sign of the New Covenant. Christ was the sacrifice, his blood was the seal of the covenant. People of the day, and of Jewish religious background, understood the meaning of this.
Jesus suffered, yes. However, as always, it our responsibility to turn away from sin and make reparation (as far as possible) for sins we forget.
That message was already known.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Further, I see Jesus' death as more of a suicide than a sacrifice.
The wages of sin is death and if Jesus died he must have been a sinner and suicide is considered a sin by many.
If you read the last supper myth, suicide is what you will see. It is quite obvious.
Regards
DL
How you see the Lords sacrifice has no bearing on whether it was a sacrifice or not.
Because He gave Himself we will rise from the grave in immortality. Everyone who ever lived.
Because of Him we can receive mercy and our sins will washed away. If we covenant with Him we can receive eternal life which is His life.
He became subject to death to overcome it and free us from it. And praise to Him for it.