Why did Jesus die, God? Christianity is built around the question of why God Jesus of Nazareth, leaving a shameful, cruel and unjust death. The death of Jesus, evident in the ubiquitous symbol of the cross is the center of the Christian mystery. It is as if the Christians two thousand years after that fateful Good Friday in Jerusalem have yet to process always the shock suffered by Jesus' followers at that time.
Whether this death of the Christian creed fell in love quite quickly into the background, what the central message of Jesus of Nazareth was himself. That God's strength amidst our reality its hidden dynamic unfolding. Nothing else was in fact meant when Jesus preached: "The rule of God is at hand!" Those among the followers of Jesus who went undaunted even after the death of their master in Galilee from village to village and carried Jesus' message, just a few decades later disappeared from view of history. Instead, celebrated outside Palestine a redemption myth his success, according to a God-man Christ redeemed mankind from their sins through his death and had her back to allow access to God.
prerequisite course, was that this man was before the death of Jesus with God in the impure, unclean, so in that the people of access to God was absolutely impossible. This Access could only be opened by the Deputy death of a God-man again, the mind was the special favorite of God, even his own son. So God sacrificed the dearest, that he had, his own son, so that humanity was able to reconcile with him.
One may wonder whether you would have got to do with such a God, anything! If the already sacrificed his own son, how can you leave it as an ordinary mortal to the fact that he is not a fall at some point be? You have the absurdity of this construction as to the extreme, so that a theological monstrosity behind it is aware. With the image that Jesus himself from his God had, this theology has nothing to do in any case. Jesus preached and lived a Abba-God who provides care for sparrow and the lily to the just and the unjust and expects the people the same behavior. But Jesus was not much of a theologian!
The Image of God, which is behind the Christian theology of salvation, is based on the shape of the ancient despots. This has welfare of the subjects in his hand. He arbitrarily decides right and wrong and no one is accountable. His actions are either criminal or clemency. A god on the model of the despot is quite logical and acceptable, if he can kill his son in order to do good. The Christian faith has never really adopted by this image of God, because otherwise it would have to justify their new source. One can argue that Christianity has but also the image of God, Jesus of Nazareth, the idea of its Abba-God preserves. Of course, there the divine despot has hung the jacket of fatherhood in the cupboard, he must wear for special occasions.
The question remains: Why did God let Jesus die? The only acceptable answer is: Because God Jesus' death could not stop! To understand the God of Jesus of Nazareth, we must say goodbye to our image of an omnipotent God. The idea of the omnipotence God is nothing other than the extrapolation of human omnipotence fantasies into infinity! The God of the crucified Christ is an impotent God. The God of Jesus of Nazareth is a crucified God, was crucified again and again in the thousands and thousands of innocent persecuted, the oppressed and downtrodden. God may not be up there somewhere, God suffers here below! And just because it is found! This is the only legitimate response of the cross, God is found in places where people call in extreme hardship and despair, "My God, my God! Why have you forsaken me? "
