The purpose of Jesus' death: A mini world veiw

» demmergreen - Why was Jesus' death necessary?

This that I am about to propose is based on my own speculative veiw in considering why it was necessary for this Godman to under go death. The death I am more apt to stress here, finds its basis as recorded in Isaiah 53: "he poured out his soul unto death". I believe it is this factor that is unique element in the Biblical tradition that sets it apart from other world religions. In other words it could very well be that we are all descendants of God, whereby enlightened souls through the ages came to know themselves as sons of God. But when John writes: "God so loved the world he gave his "only begotten" son etc. Then we are dealing with here is a theme of being retrieved from the death mode. He was the only son 'begotten' from the dead. Why was it necessary...as Jesus would say to Peter, "where I go you cannot come"? For prior to the sacarifical event on Golgatha, he said, "it is necessary for you that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Comforter [Holy Spirit] cannot come. I would suggest that the bodily sacrifice of Jesus that shed the blood of Christ for the atonement of sin and death, also poured his soul out unto death. The death of a soul is inconcievable. No other soul I know of has never died. I would imagine it to be something of eternal aloness. Most empty and blackened. To support this theology scriptually, I would like to approach it from a couple different angles. One is where Jesus said, "This evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it except that of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the fish for 3 days and 3 nights; so must the 'son of man' be in the bowels of the earth". So the 'sign' is given in Jonah while in the fishes belly. Here are some of the words Jonah prays out of the fishes belly in Jonah chaoter 2. "out of the belly of hell I cried" "I am cast out of thy sight" "The waters compassed me about, 'even to the soul'" "the earth with her bars was about me forever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God". In Isaiah 53 we hear a familiar echo: "I was cut off, out of the land of the living". Jesus himself once said, "fear not him that can destroy the body, but fear him that can destroy both body and soul in hell forever. I believe it was in his "pouring out his soul unto death" that "he tasted death for every man as Hebrews tells us. Lastly. "The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last man Adam, a quickening or life-giving spirit" and "How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit 'offered himself' without spot, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Hebrews 9 I believe. In light of these quoted passages I am inclined to reason it this way. That in the pouring out of his soul unto death, while his holy one did not see corruption, having done this in offering his own soul up by his eternal spirit; that that soul ballooned out as it were, "tasting death for every man", even to the extant of permiatating throughout the cosmos [all creation] all the field of " death that reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression" Romans 5:14. So through the pouring out of an innocent soul, taking into itself the curse of death, the Holy Spirit was now justifiably commissioned to fill that soul; whereupon in the aftermath of the resurrection Paul had revelation that: "Death is swallowed up in victory! Speaking of the death that plagued the souls of fallen man. So now the law of the spirit of life in the mystical body of the risen Christ is a fact of faith [contradiction in terms I know, but spiritual truth can only be experiencially known, like love, its unproveable in the sense-knowledge scientific sense.] God has a way of being God. I regress.

-- posted by demmergreen

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