What Gain Did Jesus Have by Dying on the Cross? (TMF:322)

Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Peace to Live By: What Gain Did Jesus Have by Dying on the Cross? (TMF:322) - Daniel Litton
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       Why would Jesus, as a human, die on the cross if he were simply a human, or a good man at that? Jesus, on more than one occasion, stated that he is God. Now, if he’s not God, but simply just a man, then he indeed was a lair. Would Jesus really go all the way to a Roman execution on a cross to keep a lie alive? He told his disciples he had to die. Perhaps he was just crazy then. But reading the words of Jesus, the things he said, doesn’t seem to show a crazy man. What about his Eleven disciples who lived after he went back to heaven? They all died martyrs deaths. They were with Jesus. Did they too die for a lie, or were they all crazy? So, now, we’re saying we had Jesus plus eleven other crazy people, not to mention the Apostle Paul? What gain had they in dying gruesome, hard deaths? Certainly there was no money involved. They weren’t violent people—like many today who do die for lies and often have never seen anything with their own eyes. These people are brainwashed and believe in things that aren’t true. They have been led astray by Satan himself.