Raising Hell | Ep 7: If Hell Isn't True, Why Did Jesus Die? @RaisingHell | Uploaded May 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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I love this question. It requires that you get out of your old paradigm—one that isn’t even biblical.
Jesus didn’t die to keep you from going to hell. He died to show you the way to heaven. Also, Jesus didn’t die to change God’s mind about you, but to change your mind about God.
The fact is, we all have to die. And, we all have to die two deaths!
The first death is our mortal death, as in, stop breathing. The second death is the death of our sin consciousness self that seeks to separate ourselves from God and others. We all have to lay down this old ego-driven, disconnected version of ourselves and turn our lives and wills over to God in order to come into new life. This is the meaning of Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me.”
When Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes to the Father except through me,” he was saying, “My way is the way. My way is the truth...follow me. My way is through death and resurrection, that is how you get to the Father.”
In your second death of the ego or first Adam, you are saved from the death and destructive ways of being your old, unredeemed (not born anew) self. You are saved (“sozo,” which is also “healed") from the perception of separation from God and others that keeps you from being love, from experiencing the power of God, from transforming into your higher self.
Heaven, by the way, starts NOW for all who believe and are connected to the Vine. This is “eternal life,” or from the Greek, “eonian life.” Eonian life is age-abiding life in the age you are living and beyond. Anytime we are connected to our Source, God, as Jesus was, we are living in precious eternal life.
Jesus’s death also accomplished another benefit: he put an end to the old pagan sacrificial system. Jesus was a scapegoat of sorts, putting to death an old system of beliefs where a blood sacrifice is needed to appease an angry god. Jesus became the last sacrifice so that these unnecessary sacrifices would stop. This is the foundation for the nonviolent atonement theory, and is supported by many Scriptures.
Ps. 40:6 "Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required."
Ps. 51:16-17 "For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise."
Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you? But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God.
Thanks for joining this week!
Verse references:
Mark 2:10, Galatians 2:20, John 14:6, John 15:5
Find this info helpful? Want to make this knowledge available for countless others? Buy me “a cup of coffee” (or help change the world for just $3/month!): patreon.com/RaisingHell
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Youtube Channel: youtube.com/raisinghell
The book: Raising Hell: Christianity's Most Controversial Doctrine Put Under Fire
Free PDFs of all versions at: raisinghellbook.com (full length version, short and sweet version, and Spanish version)
Purchase or Review:
Full length version Amazon: amzn.to/2y4jCsc
Abridged version Amazon: amzn.to/2x58bBp
Spanish version (Controversia infernal) Amazon: amzn.to/2JlNwA4
I love this question. It requires that you get out of your old paradigm—one that isn’t even biblical.
Jesus didn’t die to keep you from going to hell. He died to show you the way to heaven. Also, Jesus didn’t die to change God’s mind about you, but to change your mind about God.
The fact is, we all have to die. And, we all have to die two deaths!
The first death is our mortal death, as in, stop breathing. The second death is the death of our sin consciousness self that seeks to separate ourselves from God and others. We all have to lay down this old ego-driven, disconnected version of ourselves and turn our lives and wills over to God in order to come into new life. This is the meaning of Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me.”
When Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes to the Father except through me,” he was saying, “My way is the way. My way is the truth...follow me. My way is through death and resurrection, that is how you get to the Father.”
In your second death of the ego or first Adam, you are saved from the death and destructive ways of being your old, unredeemed (not born anew) self. You are saved (“sozo,” which is also “healed") from the perception of separation from God and others that keeps you from being love, from experiencing the power of God, from transforming into your higher self.
Heaven, by the way, starts NOW for all who believe and are connected to the Vine. This is “eternal life,” or from the Greek, “eonian life.” Eonian life is age-abiding life in the age you are living and beyond. Anytime we are connected to our Source, God, as Jesus was, we are living in precious eternal life.
Jesus’s death also accomplished another benefit: he put an end to the old pagan sacrificial system. Jesus was a scapegoat of sorts, putting to death an old system of beliefs where a blood sacrifice is needed to appease an angry god. Jesus became the last sacrifice so that these unnecessary sacrifices would stop. This is the foundation for the nonviolent atonement theory, and is supported by many Scriptures.
Ps. 40:6 "Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required."
Ps. 51:16-17 "For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise."
Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you? But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God.
Thanks for joining this week!
Verse references:
Mark 2:10, Galatians 2:20, John 14:6, John 15:5
