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Citing:

8- Is Jesus cursed because of the death on the cross, Galatians 3:13?

It is written in Gospel “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”, Does this mean that Jesus is Cursed because he died and crucified on a cross / tree?

9- How is God forgiving whereas a crucifixion is an essential condition of forgiveness?

How is god forgiving whereas crucifixion is an essential condition of forgiveness? What is the concept of divine ability for the forgiveness of sin whereas the forgiveness of sin is not but only by crucified Son?

10- Is there a proof in the Bible that Jesus was buried three days and nights?

It is known, according to the Christian faith that Jesus after he had died on a cross buried three days and three nights, so Is there a proof from bible for that?

11- What is the destiny of people who were before Jesus?

What is the time occasion between the sin of Adam and the descent of Christ to bearing the sins of humans? and What is the destiny of people who were before Jesus? Proof from bible

12- Did the first Christians see God face to face?

There is a paragraph in the bible says ((Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father)) and this contrasts with the paragraph which says ((no one can see God and live))

13- What is the purpose of not having polygamy in Christianity?

It is known that there is reason for the polygamy in Islam on condition that there is a Justice. So what is the purpose of not having polygamy in Christianity? With proof from the bible, please?

14-Why didn’t Satan die instead of God on the cross?

If Satan is basically the owner of sin in world, so why did not he die instead of God on the cross?! On other side, is fairness that God dies on the cross for the sins of people whereas Satan who is basically the owner of these sins stays free & alive?

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8- Is Jesus cursed because of the death on the cross, Galatians 3:13?

It is written in Gospel “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”, Does this mean that Jesus is Cursed because he died and crucified on a cross / tree?

A

It means Jesus took our curse and was cursed for our sake.

The writing you cited is not from a Gospel, but one of St Paul's Epistles:

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:"
[Galatians 3:13]

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9- How is God forgiving whereas a crucifixion is an essential condition of forgiveness?

How is god forgiving whereas crucifixion is an essential condition of forgiveness? What is the concept of divine ability for the forgiveness of sin whereas the forgiveness of sin is not but only by crucified Son?

A

God could have forgiven without compensation, but chose not to, in order to make us see how evil sin is, and Christians, while feeling less evil in certain domains, where Muslims think everything is a sin, feel more the evil of transgression as such, than Muslims do.

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10- Is there a proof in the Bible that Jesus was buried three days and nights?

It is known, according to the Christian faith that Jesus after he had died on a cross buried three days and three nights, so Is there a proof from bible for that?

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Matthew 27 and Matthew 28.

Mark 15 and Mark 16.

Luke 23 and Luke 24.

John 19 and John 20.

That "the first day of the week" means Sunday is apparent since "first comes Saturday, then comes Sunday" and the Jewish week had Saturday as the final day (and some Christians also say, Saturday is still the seventh day, even if Sunday is the new Day of God).

That the day of Crucifixion was Friday, we have from Tradition.

This means that Christ was dead and buried during three successive calendar dates, though not the whole extent of either first or last one. We think that the phrase "three days and three nights" means this, was a phrase of three calendar dates.

Others would say, the tradition is a symbolic one, we celebrate a Friday as memory of Crucifixion, but it was on a Thursday He was Crucified, but this is a minority view.

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11- What is the destiny of people who were before Jesus?

What is the time occasion between the sin of Adam and the descent of Christ to bearing the sins of humans? and What is the destiny of people who were before Jesus? Proof from bible

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Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and their wives and thousands of others were justified by hoping in Him, even before He came.

When He, when His human soul, went down to the Paradise parts of the Netherworld (of Hell, one can also say, though the word is also used, in English most commonly, of the place of the damned), He greeted these souls and He has now taken them with Him up to Heaven.

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12- Did the first Christians see God face to face?

There is a paragraph in the bible says ((Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father)) and this contrasts with the paragraph which says ((no one can see God and live))

A

The phrase "no one can see God and live" refer to this life and to God's divinity.

The first Christians did see God face to face, in this life, but in His humanity, the divinity shining through.

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13- What is the purpose of not having polygamy in Christianity?

It is known that there is reason for the polygamy in Islam on condition that there is a Justice. So what is the purpose of not having polygamy in Christianity? With proof from the bible, please?

A

Same purpose as for not having divorce and remarriage, since divorce and remarriage is successive polygamy.

Mark 10:

[2] And the Pharisees coming to him asked him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. [3] But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you? [4] Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to put her away. [5] To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you that precept.

[6] But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. [7] For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife. [8] And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. [9] What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. [10] And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the same thing.

[11] And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her. [12] And if the wife shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

The verse "God made them male and female" has "male" in singular, and "female" in singular.

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14-Why didn’t Satan die instead of God on the cross?

If Satan is basically the owner of sin in world, so why did not he die instead of God on the cross?! On other side, is fairness that God dies on the cross for the sins of people whereas Satan who is basically the owner of these sins stays free & alive?

A

Satan, like Michael, are angels, and cannot die.

Satan was already damned, like Michael was already eternally blissful thousands of years before God became man.

By God's death, Satan was also no longer free to just domineer us, but bound.

Since the death was a penitential one, suffering on our behalf, it would not have worked with an impenitent damned angelic being like Satan.

Michael, if he had been given a body to suffer, would have once over merited his own eternal bliss, but his suffering would not have been of infinite value, since he is not God. But to make up for someone else's sin, you need to have a value as great as it, and sin - mortal sin, even the least of them - is an infinite evil, since directed against God Himself, who is infinitely good.

Therefore, the victim had to be God, or he would not have had enough value to compensate.

Satan would neither have been willing to die as a sacrifice, nor would he have had enough value, had he been willing. He was utterly defeated, there are some things Satan could do before and cannot do again until he is briefly let loose in the end of time, and there is the fact he cannot any longer hold Adam or Noah in captivity in the Netherworld.