How is it just for Jesus to die for our sins when he never sinned?

Question

I've heard Christians explain it like this: God is so perfect and just that he can't allow you into his presence with even the smallest sin, but Jesus died for our sins and so if we accept him Jesus will wash our sins away and then we can enter God's Kingdom. But how is it just for the One who never sinned to pay for everyone else's? If you kill someone it's not justice for me to go to prison for you even if I volunteer. And to add to the confusion, Jesus and God are the same entity, supposedly. It's like he's tricking himself. What's up?

Answer 1

I don't believe that Jesus never sinned. He was human and according to Christianity, all humans are sinners. Wasn't that the point of Jesus? So God could live coud live as a human and therefore understand the humans/sinners better?

Answer 2

First of all, I'm very glad to see that you have gotten a correct answer about Jesus Christ and why He died on the cross. All that you have written is completely correct. You know, I'm sure people hear this all the time, but it's because it's true; these questions can be answered in reading the new testament. There is a verse that reads: "since by the disobedience of one man (Adam) all fell, so by the obedience of one man (Jesus) will many be saved". Because Jesus was, indeed, God made flesh, and sinless...He did what the blood of goats and lambs could not; He removes sin...if a person confesses Him as their savior.

You ask, why is this just? Nowhere in the bible does it say that it's just for Jesus to die for us. In fact, it says, while we were yet sinners, He died for us. God so loved us..He gave His son. And the bible also tells us that Jesus willfully went to the cross, "despising" the shame (of it), because of the joy before Him. That joy was knowing that He would be the savior of all who come to believe in Him.

Answer 3

The remission of sin takes a blood sacrifice. In the old testament the people made animal sacrifices to cover their sins. When Jesus the son of God came to the earth ,he made the supreme sacrifice to cover all sins because he was perfect. Through Adam sin entered the world and through Jesus sin was paid for. Since Jesus is as much God as the Father is, he was powerful enough to pay the price.He did it out of love.

Answer 4

Jesus died for the sins and the sinful tendandcies which we inherited from Adam. He understood that these sins were not of our own will but just our inheritance. So he cancelled them out and gave us the opportunity to be resurrected and grow to perfection and make our own choice whether or not to serve and obey God. Jesus and God are two different people. Their relationship is explained by both of them as that of Father and son. Why do some people keep trying to change that?

Answer 5

He fulfilled the Bible prophecy. The wages of the sin was death...we would have not been able to make it by law. People were slaughtering animals as a sacrifice...and still there was a problem.
Jesus is the perfect sacrifice, so we do not have to sacrifice any animals anymore. He died for our sins because it was said that the penalty for sin was death. Instead of letting us die with our sins, God sent His only Son. We need to accept the free gift of eternal life...it is free gift, but it was not cheap. Jesus died for it. So if the penalty for breaking the old law was death...what do you think would happen to people who will spit on the cross, refusing the gift of His only Son?
Jesus is the way and the truth and the life. No one will enter to the Father's house except through Him. I accept Jesus as my lord and Savior. I want to be with God forever.

Answer 6

God's gift to us. The Bible says in the Old Books of Moses there is no atonement for sin without the spilling of blood. Thus the old animal sacrifices.

Remember the story of Abraham taking his son Issac to Mt Moriah because God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son back to Him, but at the last minute God stopped him. Issac had been asking his father Abraham earlier....we have the alter...the fire..what are we going to do for the sacrifice? The lamb to offer to God?

Abraham told Issac while they were preparing everything, "God will provide the lamb." After God stopped Abraham from killing his son, there was a ram nearby caught in the brush. God had provided the sacrificial ram. This whole story is a "Prefigurement" of the New Testament where God once again provides the sacrificial LAMB, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.

Answer 7

God likes to murder people. According to the Bible, the gruesome death of Jesus was "a sweet smelling savor to the Lord." God kinda "gets off" on all that messy smiting he does.

But...

According to the Trinity believers, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one and the same. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. If they are correct, then the whole "Jesus died for our sins" thing is nothing more than a tricky suicide plot.

Behind Door #1, you have the brutal murder of an innocent by God.
Behind Door #2, intricate suicide pact with the sky-daddy.

You decide.
-SD-

Answer 8

no it was not fair or just but a perfect sacrifice had to be used to complete the job of saving a sin sick world. God is not the author of confusion...Jesus is the son of God and the Holy Ghost is the keeper, the third in the Trinity. Think of an egg.. you have the yolk, the white part, and the shell ... the three make up one egg.

Answer 9

If there was anyone who didn't deserve to die for sin, it was Jesus. Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice when he, who knew no sin, took upon himself the sins of you and me. It was all about love: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.

But, in a sense, it is just. In the Old Testament days, when an animal sacrifice was made, it had to be without blemish, perfect, to be acceptable to God. The only perfect man to ever live was Jesus.

Answer 10

Smith Smith,
You would do good to read the 'Book' of Romans. There is so much to understand about the sacrifice of Jesus and what was going on with all that.

The Bible states that a righteous man died for unrighteous men. It wasn't about justice. It wasn't about fairness either. It was about His love for us. That's why he came after us. He started the whole Adam and Eve thing. He wanted them to be with Him and their offspring, together.

Then this sin thing happened. And He provided a way out. We will return to being with Him again without this God damned sin thing in the way to keep us apart.

It's just like that.

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