What makes you think Jesus came here to die? Let's say, for agument's sake, that Jesus existed. What on earth makes you think that he came here to die? Did he not say, while on the cross, "Why have you forsaken me?"
He's quoting from psalm 22. Several lines make sense here
I see this as the expression of complete abandonment that Jesus felt. Some verses from pslam 22:
"My God, my God, why have you abandoned/forsaken me?"
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""But I am a worm, hardly human, scorned by everyone, despised by the people. All who see me mock me; they curl their lips and jeer; they shake their heads at me: 'You relied on the Lord--let him deliver you; if he loves you, let him rescue you."...
"Like water my life drains away; all my bones grow soft. My heart has become like wax, it melts away within me. As dry as a potsherd is my throat; my tongue sticks to my palate; you lay me in the dust of death. Many dogs sorround me; a pack of evildoers closes in on me,. So wasted are my hands and feet that I can count all my bones. They stare at me and gloat; they divide my garments among them; for my clothig they cast lots"...
Was it not Judas who turned him in before he was taken into custody? It's not like he turned himself in.
Judas turned in Jesus but at the same time the Father and Jesus allowed this to happen.
And on top of that, since when does his death grant us eternal life? How did we jump to this conclusion? History tells us that NOBODY cared that Jesus died at the time, and it was about 300 years before Christianity became a large following. And it was only becuase a Roman emperor deeply entrenched in a war decided that "Jesus is Lord" did Christianity survive at all. And boy, how convienient it was that he had this epiphany just when he needed the political backing from the Christians. Hmm..
Christianity would have surived just as it surrived Nero.
And another thing I have to ask, is why all this God stuff takes place in the Middle East? Science tells us that the first human wasn't born in the Middle East; she was born in Africa. Why doesn't the Bible take place there? Why doesn't it show God coming to the Americas? Why didn't God put a flannel jacket on his son and send him to Canada, eh?
Desert, Mountains, Sea... Anyways by Abraham's faith, the Jews became the chosen people. The son came to regather the lost sheep of Israel.
What about how God is supposed to smote anyone who opposes him, yet the Christians were defeated in the Middle East by the Muslims? Why would God allow that? Following your logic, then that would mean God was on the side of the Muslims, right? Answer that question, please.
Most of the blame could be said of the inability of christians to convert the pagans living there by 800AD. Another problem was the amount of herecies that flourished. Even in Muhammad's writing we see the inaccurate description of christianity based on these herecies. Jesus came to smote Satan's head. "For you shall smote his head, and he will strike at your heel". The battle is a spiritual one.
(Luke 9:52 KJV) "And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him."
(Luke 9:53 KJV) "And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem."
(Luke 9:54 KJV) "And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?"
(Luke 9:55 KJV) "But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of."
(Luke 9:56 KJV) "For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village."
