Good Friday: Jesus Died Today, Revived on Sunday

Today is Good Friday. Celebrated, well, not exactly celebrated, but noted, as the day Jesus was murdered by the Romans.

I have always had trouble with the concept that Someone so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that those who believe in Him can have everlasting life.

For one thing, just a couple days after the Father gave up the Son, the Son supposedly rose from the dead and went to heaven to be with his Father. And if you believe that, then that too can happen for you when you die.

And then there is that God in 3 Persons, Father, Son and Holy Ghost thing. Which would seem to mean that Jesus is God, God is Jesus and both are the Holy Ghost. So, Jesus isn't actually God's Son, instead he is God in human form? So, again, where is the great sacrifice if God in human form is murdered, yet isn't really dead, going from the murder, and being dead, to heavenly rewards and back alive a couple days later?

A few days ago someone sent me a very earnest email about this subject, detailing in gruesome detail what Jesus suffered on the cross.

The email ended with...

Jesus had to pass all this experience, so that you can have free access to God. So that your sins could be 'washed' away. All of them, with no exception! Don't ignore this situation. HE DIED FOR YOU! For you, who now read this e-mail. Do not believe that He only died for others (those who go to the church or for pastors, bishops, etc).

He died for you! Accept the reality, the truth that JESUS IS THE ONLY SALVATION FOR THE WORLD.

Jesus went through all this human misery so that your sins could be washed away? But only if you believe He went through this misery for you. And was then back alive a couple days later. "He died for you." But he didn't die? He was dead for a couple days. Apparently. And then wasn't.

I also have trouble with how people take this stuff all as gospel, I guess that is some sort of pun. I mean, it's all words, written by men, long after the events supposedly took place. If God wanted to send his "Son" to earth in order to somehow get the earthlings to behave in a Godly fashion, would it not have been a better plan to wait a couple thousand years, to the point in history where the Earthlings had used their God given talents to build systems of mass communication, so the news of the arrival of the Son of God could be mass communicated? He could perform a few miracles, have us all in awe and ready to follow Him and there'd be no need for a ridiculously gruesome Crucifixion to cement the deal.

It all really just seems like really bad planing on God's part, if you ask me. Which you didn't. Okay, I am ready to be struck down for blatant blasphemy.