Who is Responsible for Killing Jesus?

[jimmyjimmy]

Who is responsible for the death of Jesus. Here are a few choices. Use your "free will" to choose one, and please add more, if you have others.

a) Jewish leaders
b) Roman guards
c) Judas
d) The Father
e) Me

 

[“Paisios”]

I always understood the Gospel account - where Judas' betrayal (representing those closest to Christ), the Jewish leaders (representing God's chosen people) and Pilate's complicity (representing the Roman Empire, or in a broader sense, the rest of the world) - to be a condemnation of all of us; thus all of humankind is responsible for His death, including me.

 

[jimmyjimmy]

I always understood the Gospel account - where Judas' betrayal (representing those closest to Christ), the Jewish leaders (representing God's chosen people) and Pilate's complicity (representing the Roman Empire, or in a broader sense, the rest of the world) - to be a condemnation of all of us; thus all of humankind is responsible for His death, including me.

This ought to be a short thread, then.

What about the Godhead?

 

[Tree of Life]

Here are a few choices. Use your free will to choose one, and please add more, if you have others.

a) Jewish leaders
b) Roman guards
c) Judas
d) The Father
e) Me

All of the above.

 

[“Paisios”]

This ought to be a short thread, then.

What about the Godhead?

LOL

As far as the Godhead...God is of course involved as both priest and victim, with full foreknowledge planning for our redemption through this means...but it doesn't let us off the hook, and the details of the mechanism of redemption seems to be under dispute among Christians and needs a wiser mind than mine to sort it out. (Guess I'm saying I don't know...)

 

[Philip_B]

And was crucified for us (Mark 15:25; 1 Corinthians 15:3)
under Pontius Pilate, (John 19:6)
and suffered, (Mark 8:31)
and was buried. (Luke 23:53; 1 Corinthians 15:4)

 

[jimmyjimmy]

LOL

As far as the Godhead...God is of course involved as both priest and victim, with full foreknowledge planning for our redemption through this means...but it doesn't let us off the hook, and the details of the mechanism of redemption seems to be under dispute among Christians and needs a wiser mind than mine to sort it out. (Guess I'm saying I don't know...)

Thanks, so God planned this, and wanted it to happen, so obviously He forced Judas to betray Christ, and He coerced the Jewish leaders to want to kill Him.

 

[Eryk]

f) No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. (John 10:18)

 

[jimmyjimmy]

f) No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. (John 10:18)

No one killed Jesus?

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

Here are a few choices. Use your free will to choose one, and please add more, if you have others.

This ought to be a short thread, then.

No one killed Jesus?

RIGHT !

 

[“Paisios”]

Thanks, so God planned this, and wanted it to happen, so obviously He forced Judas to betray Christ, and He coerced the Jewish leaders to want to kill Him.

God planned it without question, but I don't know that I implied, or believe, that He forced anyone to do anything - rather, that knowing what they (and we) would do, He planned our redemption in His love. Not sure that He wanted it to happen, except in that His love for us made it worthwhile in His eyes. But then, what do I know?

 

[jax5434]

Here are a few choices. Use your free will to choose one, and please add more, if you have others.

a) Jewish leaders
b) Roman guards
c) Judas
d) The Father
e) Me

No one "killed" Jesus. Scripture makes clear that he gave up (voluntarily) his life for us. Would it be possible for us to kill God?

God Bless
Jax

 

[Apex]

Here are a few choices. Use your free will to choose one, and please add more, if you have others.

a) Jewish leaders
b) Roman guards
c) Judas
d) The Father
e) Me

Perhaps the better question would be, what killed Jesus?

 

[Wolfe]

With the way the world looks now, seems to me that we did.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

But then, what do I know?

As the Apostles all testified, we once knew Jesus the way of man's thinking, but now we know Jesus after the Spirit. (i.e. YHWH'S revealed truth, pure and right and sure)...

and concerning all Scripture, once YHWH reveals anything to us:
" Then opened HE their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,"

 

[Albion]

And was crucified for us (Mark 15:25; 1Cointhians 15:3)
under Pontius Pilate, (John 19:6)

In other words, answer b. That's what I was thinking too.

 

[Eryk]

No one killed Jesus?

I wanted that on the list with the other things. There is no one answer. Acts 3:15 (you killed the Prince of life), Heb. 6:6 (those who fall away crucify the Son of God all over again) - the Bible gives more than one answer. To say "choose one" is to ask the wrong question.

 

[jimmyjimmy]

God planned it without question, but I don't know that I implied, or believe, that He forced anyone to do anything - rather, that knowing what they (and we) would do, He planned our redemption in His love. Not sure that He wanted it to happen, except in that His love for us made it worthwhile in His eyes. But then, what do I know?

Sorry, I was being facetious. I should have said so.

 

[jimmyjimmy]

No one "killed" Jesus. Scripture makes clear that he gave up (voluntarily) his life for us. Would it be possible for us to kill God?

God Bless
Jax

No Roman guard pounded nails through His hands and feet?

He did die. He was human as well, right?

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Here are a few choices. Use your free will to choose one, and please add more, if you have others.

a) Jewish leaders
b) Roman guards
c) Judas
d) The Father
e) Me

Culture signified by the Greek writing over the cross
Government signified by the Latin over the cross
Religion signified by the Hebrew over the cross