Do you think the food analogy confuses people? Yeshua never had to do anything, His sacrifice was atonement for sins He never committed.

If Jesus had stayed dead there would be no resurrection hope. He'd still be in Hell right now having taken our sins upon Himself. All would be hopeless. If any of us could carry the worlds sins to Hell ourselves we would never be permitted to rise from Hades because our own sins would deserve to be there and would keep us dead. Only a perfect person accepting the worlds sins would be able to take the sins to Hell and leave them there, to fulfill all rightiousness, and still be able to excape. None of us were ever going to accomplish this feat as we all have sinned. Everyone destined for Hell would stay there for an eternity as our own sins would demand. When Jesus rose from the dead He then completed His mission by going to Heaven to make the offer of His sinless blood as an atonement for whosoever would believe in Him as payment. Being seperated from God the Father is a tremendous sacrifice for anyone whether for a single hour or three days. Jesus suffered agonizing torture on the way to the cross. This is sacrifice. To this day people (the very object of His Love) continue to attempt to cast doubt on His sacrifice and turn others away from the saving faith that would spare them that Hell He went to so we wouldn't have to.

+4 Good question. How indeed is it a sacrifice if he gets resurrected and furthermore that he knows he will be resurrected before going into it? . Christians will no doubt say that being flogged and crucified is a horrible experience - and no doubt it is. But thousands of people went through this kind of ordeal in those times and they didn't have the knowledge that they would not atually die at the end of it to sustain them. . A woman who refused to renounce Jesus was once forced to sit down onto a chair made of red hot metal by the Romans and died a horrible death. She had no surety or knowledge that she would live again afterwards. That is sacrifice.

Good point - especially if he, being a god, KNEW that he was only going to spend one and a half days "dead".

A simpler example for Christian apologists, who are rather impervious to rational thought, logic or radical doubt. [The more absurd stuff they 'believe in', the more blind and stronger is their 'faith'!] * Now, try this for size: A Jew printed a counterfeit banknote of $1000. It was not his rightful genuine money. (A) He lent it to somebody and got paid his dues in due course of time. Is the debt of $1000 still outstanding? No! (B) Or he lost it and claimed it on insurance and got paid $1000. Has he lost $1000 anymore? No! In both scenarios he actually cheated the debtor or insurer and made a dishonest, immoral or ‘sinful’ gain of $1000 by felony. But Christians call it God’s sacrificing Jesus’s life as advance payment for the ‘so-called’ future sins of all humanity! What a bloody con! * Isn’t Christianity based on ‘the pseudo-sacrifice by a pseudo-God’s of his pseudo-son Jesus’; bcoz Christians also believe JC went ‘back to his Daddy’s home’ within 48 hours of being executed on da cross? What sacrifice, then?!

So you don't think that being ripped to bits by a whip that has bits of metal, stone and bone tied to the lashes, hanging on a cross for hours until dead and spending three days in hell is a sacrifice?

First of all, God didn't have to do it. There is absolutely no reason what's ever for God to leave Heaven where it is perfect and come to Earth where He had to suffer hunger, mosquitoes, colds, stubbed toes, etc. That is the first sacrifice, giving up perfection for imperfection. The second sacrifice was going through the torture and being whipped, beaten, spit on, then nailed to the cross. Of course he knew he would go back to Heaven, but the big deal is God came down to our level and took our punishment. Let's say your job was ditch digging. Day in and day out you broke your back digging ditches. One day while you were digging next to the road some guy shows up in dirty cover alls and a shovel and tells you to take the day off. All day in the hot sun he works and gets all covered in mud while you set in the shade and watch. Then at the end of the day a motor cade shows up, and a limo opens it's doors and the guy gets in and leaves. You suddenly realize that it was the president. It doesn't matter that the president is going back to his world of servants nice suits and will never have to do another hard days work in his life. What matters is the precedent sacrificed his easy life for one day to give you an easy day when he didn't have to do it. From then on you are going to be eternally gratefully and think he is the greatest guy ever. That is what Jesus did.