again i ask why?

so yea, tonight I went to see Narnia. It was a good movie....I almost cried when they killed Aslan....all I could think about was how the Lion of Judea did that for me, a traitor.

I do have question for you though?

Why did Christ die?

The answer to this question dictates much about your personal commitment to Christianity. If Jesus died to save us from Sin, then our new life is likely to be focused on sin and trying to be sinless. However, if Jesus died in order to give us life and to give it more abundantly then we will spend our new life focused on living life the way God wants us to. Yes of course Jesus dealt with the sin issue in our lives, but that was only a small thing that had to be done in order to provide us with that new life.

This Brings me to the question I thought of during the movie.

For what did Christ die?

I will lay it out on the table. Did Christ die to ransom humanity from sin/Satan? Or, did He die in an effort to fulfill the holiness of God. For us to say that Christ died to ransom us from Satan is to say that God is not all powerful. For, if God had to pay anything to anyone then he must lacking the ability to do that thing himself. I mean you would never pay a plumber to unstop your drains unless you were unable to do it yourself (or simply too lazy, which in itself is a lacking). Therefore, since God does not need to pay Satan anything, why must Jesus die? He died because the holiness of God demands that humanity be holy and the only way to cleanse humanity is for Jesus to die. Therefore, the mercy of an ever-benevolent god met the righteousness of an ever-holy god in the death of Christ.

What does this have to do with Narnia. Well, in the movie it states that the wages of being a traitor is death. Or as the movie puts it "the old magic" (and what is older than the holiness of God) demands that a traitor's blood belongs to the White Witch. Aslan takes the sin of Edmond on himself and dies. However, there is the dilemma. Does he die to fulfill the law or does he die to ransom Edmond from the queen. Well clearly he does both. From my second question we see that he died to fulfill the "old magic" and from my first question we see that he died to give Edmond a new life an abundant life....

Just a thought