Why was it necessary for Jesus to die, for us to have salvation?

Question

Couldn't God just say each one has to stand on his own merit.
Jesus didn't do anything wrong why did he have to die?

Answer 1

Matthew 20:28. says “The Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister and to give his soul a ransom in exchange for many.”

What does this "ransom" mean? well, a ransom can be defined as something paid to buy something back.

So Jesus paid a "ransom" by giving his life, but what did he buy back? What had been lost that needed buying back?

Romans 5:12 says “Through one man [Adam] sin entered into the world and death through sin.” Adam lost perfect life for the whole human family by disobeying god and choosing to be independant from his creator, perfect life would have meant that adam would not have died, he would have had the prospect of living forever in perfect health and so would his decendants, instead he - and his decendants lost all that and became imperfect and sinful.

in order to provide a ransom for a sin, a price must be paid that fully corresponds to, or fully covers, the damage caused by the sin. God’s Law to Israel thus stated: “Soul will be for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”—Deuteronomy 19:21.

The ransom thus had to involve the death of the exact equal of Adam—a perfect human. (Romans 5:14) No other kind of creature could balance the scales of justice. Only a perfect human, someone not under the Adamic death sentence, could offer “a corresponding ransom”—one corresponding perfectly to Adam. (1 Timothy 2:6)

However now that mankind was imperfect, nobody had the necessary price needed to buy back what adam had lost.

so Jehovah arranged to have a perfect man voluntarily sacrifice his life - Jesus. According to Romans 6:23, “the wages sin pays is death.” In sacrificing his life, the ransomer would “taste death for every man.” In other words, he would pay the wage for Adam’s sin. (Hebrews 2:9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24) This would have profound legal consequences. By nullifying the death sentence upon Adam’s obedient offspring, the ransom would cut off the destructive power of sin right at its source.—Romans 5:16.

This is why Jesus died in order for us to have salvation, he didn't die because he had done anything wrong.

That is it in a nutshell, let me know if there is anything that you don't understand.

Answer 2

Only those that are Holy can stand on their own merits. When was the last time you saw a Holy person? I mean really by the Bible, strait-with No Human Tradition-strait by the Bible- HOLY? Let me answer that for you; NEVER! Not in this life time. So, God knew that we are all sinners, and as He can not die, He needed someone to take our place in the second death ( the death that there is NO resurrection from ), someone who had a chance to live a HOLY life, but it could not be a created being. It had to be someone that had created us, and because GOD CAN NOT DIE, He needed someone to take His place. So, way back before time even began God begat His Son, and God created us through His Son. In the original Greek, John 1:1,2 reads "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with the God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with the God." In Rev 3:14 ( Last part ) "...The beginning of the creation of God." Ps 2:7 Micheal/Jesus is saying what God has said, "I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me: Thou are my Son: this day have I begotten thee." (Also see Acts 13:33; Heb 1:5; 5:5). The whole sacrificial system was about the Lamb of God, His sacrifice of His Son, was a look forward to the sacrifice on our behalf. And the Lords supper is for us to look back at that death on our behalf. The perfect Lamb, with out spot or blemish, that was/is the Christ of God, Jesus/Michael, The Only Begotten Son Of God since before there was a creation.

Answer 3

Jesus did NOT die for our sins for several reasons. One, GOD is LOVE, LOVE is GOD. LOVE does not desire blood and torment to appease anything. There is no such thing as "Original Sin". If we were to pay for anything Adam and Eve did then you must pay for anything I do. If the second makes no sense, neither does the first. The bible writers took any and all natural events and rewrote them as bible stories, Noah's flood which has been proved local and explainable. The Tower of Babel. GOD believed man could build a tower all the way up to HIS throne??? Parting of the Red Sea and killing multitudes of soldiers by a GOD bent on eliminating deliberate killings?
Jesus, like thousands of other Rabbis was crucified because he had a large following and the Romans were afraid of large gatherings in case they became an insurrection. The same situation as Fallen Gong in China.
Jesus was the world's greatest teacher and healer. It is a shame what religion has done to his memory.
Vaya con DIOS

Answer 4

I know I'm going to tick off a lot of people by saying this, but please read through my whole post before making a final call on this.
Jesus DID NOT have to die for us to have salvation. God is all-powerful. He could have brought about salvation in any way that He wanted to. He could have snapped his figures. He could have taken sacrificial lambs (hey--sounds like the Old Testament, doesn't it?). He could have arbitraliary decided to save only those with red hair. He could have done it all.
God CHOOSE to send Jesus down as man--knowing full well how we humans would react i.e. we'd kill him--because he loves us and that is the ultimate act of love. "No greater love is there than this: to lay down one's life for a friend." It was an awe-inspiringly, insurmountable, unbelieveable, all-incompassing, unconditional love for us that God sent His only son to die for our salvation.
As for "each one standing on his own merit," I think God recognized that NONE of us stands on his own "merit." We're all sinners. We are require redemption. We can never do or say enough to "deserve" heaven, it has to be given to us as a grace--a gift from God as He sees fit to give it. I once heard someone preach that even if Mother Teresa met God and He asked her why she should be saved, if she said "Because I deserve it," she'd lose her salvation. It's God work, not ours. It's His love, not ours. It's His will, not ours.

I hope that you find this helpful! Thanks for reading! God Bless!

Answer 5

This was how it was SUPPOSED to be. But the Bible says in Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God". So he knew before he created us that we were gonna sin. We were initially born in sin, so it wasn't really like he wanted us to stand on his own merit coming out of the womb, because we were predestined to be born into sin being that we live in a world of sin. But our purpose on the earth is to live a life as Christ did. And to follow in his footsteps. I believe he sent Jesus to show us that he loved us so much that he would give an offspring of him as a sacrifice for us. And that should have been enough to convince the world that he loves us and will do anything to let us know.

Answer 6

What Jesus did was give us an example of something we all must try to emulate. Can you imagine any sacrifice greater than dying for a stranger? Would you give your life for someone you haven't even met? That's the point. He died so that we may get a second chance. Sure, sins still exist and may very well live on foerever in this planet, but the point is that he showed us the way and now it's up to us to follow it.

Answer 7

When Adam and Eve sinned a animal had to die to cover there bodies. That was the first sacrifice that was made for sin. Also in the Old Testement every year they all had to gather for the priest to offer a blood sacrifice for all their sins.Each year they all had to return to have their sins forgiven by the slaying of a animal, and the blood would be sprinkled on the ark of the covnant. Those animals was pure and would only last a year cause they animal wasnt pure. Something has to die for our sin debt to be paid, and Jesus was the only pure sacrifice. His blood covers us forever.

Answer 8

there's a risky flaw contained in the Protestant idea of `once kept continuously kept` which by technique of how became in no way the idea of Christianity before the reformers determined to conform it, for sure this theory became adapted to conquer the end results of the verse that you quoted(John.20:23) Jesus took on Himself the punishment by using sin yet did not remit the international from sinning as if sin became no longer the evil that God detests. so that you compromise for Jesus as your own Saviour and now you're kept! nicely then how can everyone devote even one extra sin in any such state? actually then, you'd be commiting an similar dire offence as Judas kissing the Saviuor on the cheek at the same time as stabbing Him contained in the again.! No this risky theory of once kept continuously kept in basic terms does no longer reduce it contained in the dominion of Christ in any respect, early Christians knew finished nicely that to devote a mortal sin by technique of breaking any of the commandments presented about an intensive substitute of the friendship with God in Christ, mortal sin destroys the existence of grace and it can not be repaired by technique of guy as if it turned right into a damaged chair leg. Jesus understanding the fickle nature of guy instituted an really good sacrament of mercy that the church noted as `Confession` and it truly is this that that distinct verse is speaking about,`` those sins you shall forgive are forgiven, and those sins you shall keep are retained`` purely a foolhardy and reckless human being would dare to interpret this any incorrect way, Why? because eternal existence relies upon on it. God bless.

Answer 9

Ther are several notions in the atonement theory that moral people find offensive:

1. It is not loving: That a God of love will burn in hell forever every human being fo their inborn imperfection unless those imperfections are paid for in blood and suffering.
2. It is not just: That a God of justice would ordain the murder of of a guiltless man as blood payment for the crimes of the guilty.
3. It is not perfect: That a perfect God has an ego so fragile that his creations must flatter him through all eternity.

The Bible is rife with examples of an unjust God of petulant wrath. For example, where is the God of love and justice in killing all the firstborn of Egypt to punish pharaoh's stubborness? Where is the God of love and justice in ordering all the Amalekite prisoners, women and and all male children slaughtered, except the young girls who are given to the soldiers as booty? Moreover, to set a standard of conduct for humans that you foreknow they cannot attain, set a punishment for failure that is eternal torture, set a solution, which is foreordain that his human avatar will be unjustly executed for the crimes of humanity, after which all humans can flatter him and his avatar, and instead of eternal torture, you get to eternally flatter him, which is not much of a step up from eternal torture. It's irrational start to finish because its mythical nonsense. God could simply appear in the sky, tell us all to bow before him or be burned forever, some would and some wouldn't, and have done with it.

Answer 10

Our "salvation" is to have the sentence of death removed from us. Adam, a perfect man, caused death [ Genesis 2;16.17] and Jesus, another perfect man [ supplied lovingly by his Father, Almighty God] bought it back for us. after Armageddon, death as we know it will not exist any more. We who have gained God's approval will no longer have to die. It has been promised.
(Revelation 21:4) And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”