Jesus died for our sins?

Question

Can anybody explain to me how exactly did his death take care of our sins?
Is there some sort of a manual that God uses that says "In case of too much sin going on, one has to send his son to death".

Answer 1

Christians claim that a sacrifice of blood of a purely sinless being absolved all of the rest of us of our sins.

How MURDER of a perfect human being, and the tortures death of god incarante is supposed to then allow us to be forgiven by god... I don't understand. (I don't suppose any rational person could)

Answer 2

From your snide remarks, I can see you do not really want an answer. You just want to see how many Christians you can make mad. I tell you, you are a sad sad person and really need to get a life. Since you opened the door.

Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God came to Earth in the form of man, lived 33.5 years whithout sinning even once, was beaten to the extent that you could not even tell HE was a man, then HE was forced to carry His own cross over rough rocky roads for a very long way, then HE was nailed through His wrists and feet, was striped of all His clothes, raised up in the air on the cross, was mocked, spat upon, given vinager to quench His thirst(which HE refused), was left to hang there until HE died, then stabbed in the side with a spear. Then His body was placed in a borrowed tomb. HE went into Hell and took back the keys to Heaven and Hell, freed His people, and on the third day. OH yes on the third day HE rolled back the stone that was in front of the tomb, and HE walked out alive. Was seen by more then 500 people. Then He ascened into Heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Father. And right now HE is prepairing to come back and retrieve His bride , the Church. Then a man will come and claim to be God, but he is the deseaver. He will make a 7 year peace agreement among all nations. After only 3.5 years of peace, all hell will break loose, and every nation will rise up against Jerusalem. Then Jesus with a number that cannot be numbered of His people will come and defeat this "army of evil". They will be thrown into Hell, including the deceaver, and Satan himself. Then there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth wher the people of God will live with God for 1000 years. Then Satan will be released for a short time to deceive hwo he can. Then He along with those he deceived will be cast into Hell for all eternity, while those that have been found faithful will be with God for all eternity.

Answer 3

In the Old Testament, the Jewish people performed sacrifices where the animal (many times a lamb without defect) took the place of the person that sinned (the shed blood which is the life of the animal). There must always be a payment (or substitute) for committing sin.
In the case of Jesus providing payment for our sins, (the only sufficient sacrifice for all sin), could only be made by God Himself, hence the coming to earth in human form to be that "Lamb of God".

Answer 4

Even a "minor" sin totally separates us from God because God is so holy, beyond our understanding. So Jesyus died for all sin. But the forgiveness isn't applied until to individual asks for it .
Since the wages of sin is death Romans 6:23), then the only way to make a person justified before God is death. And the sacrifice had to be perfect, without sin,or it wasn't acceptable. Something imperfect can't pay for something imperfect.
So Jesus came and did what was needed to pay the penalty of sin.
And just as life is in the blood physically, eternal life is in HIS blood, if it is applied to us.
And his perfect, eternal sacrifice, the body of the Son of God is powerful enough to pay for every sin ever committed.

Answer 5

Let's put this in human terms. Let's say that you owe a large amount of money. The person to whom you owe the money takes you to court and wins the case. The judge orders that you pay the money back, with interest. You have no means to do so, so the judge gives you jail time. A friend of yours goes to the court and pays the fines against you. You are then released from jail, a free person.

Sin's punishment is death (meaning separation from God). Instead of eternally eliminating you from the presence of God, He pays your price Himself. The spiritual price was laid on Jesus when He was on the cross. He carried the sum total of all the sins of the world (which only He could do because He was fully human and fully God). His physical death and subsequent resurrection completed the process with victory over death. He is the friend that paid your debt for you.

Answer 6

In the OT, God had the priests kill a lamb, take it's blood, sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and then God would cover the sins of Israel. But they had to do this year after year.

Jesus is the "Lamb of God" who takes away the sins of the world. He did not enter an earthly temple, but a heavenly one. And, as God Himself, was the perfect sacrifice for all sin once and for all.

Today, man doesn't have a sin problem, but a faith problem. Forgiveness of sin is available only through faith in Jesus Christ; by His blood.

Why blood? God says there is no forgiveness without the shedding of blood. That's the way He ordained it. Then He provided a solution with His own blood!

Cool.

Answer 7

Next, Paul explains that Jesus was crucified in order that the sin which was in his body on the cross should come to an end, that his body be rendered powerless with respect to sin. You say, "Now, wait a minute. There's something wrong here. There was no sin in Jesus." That is true. Scripture is very careful to help us see that in Jesus there was no sin. He did not sin; there was no sin in him until the cross. But this tells us an amazing thing about our Lord when he was on the cross. There, Paul says, "he was made sin for us," (2 Corinthians 5:21). You see, sin, in the believer, is located in the body. Therefore, it was described in Jesus in terms of the body. His body became possessed and controlled by sin. That is why his body died. His body was rendered powerless with regard to sin. That is why he was buried.

Why do we bury a corpse? We bury it because it is useless, inert, inactive. There is nothing it can do any longer, and so we bury it. That is why Jesus was buried -- to prove that the sin in his body was ended. The body was useless, unresponsive. Paul says that is what happens to us. When our spirit has died in Christ, then the body of sin will be rendered powerless. What does Paul mean by this term "body of sin"? He means the physical body that is dominated and controlled by sin. In Adam, sin filled the whole of man -- our spirit, our soul, and our body. Therefore, we had to sin. That is why, before you became a Christian, even when you tried to be good, you couldn't. Something always went wrong and you ended by fouling up in some way. You were a slave to sin, and no matter how much you wanted to be different, you couldn't be. But now that bond has been broken. In Christ your spirit is freed: It has been united with Jesus; It has risen with him, and It is free from sin. This explains that rather interesting passage in First John 3:9, which says, "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot sin, because he has been born of God," (1 John 3:9 NIV). John is talking about your spirit, the essential you. In that sense, it is proper to say of believers, "We cannot sin."

Answer 8

how can people still believe the story of God sending his only son to die for something. First, wouldn't that make God a suicidal God. God knowingly puts his ONLY son in harms way to save humans? Why didn't God just snap his finger and save humans? Why was the death of, not just someone or something, but His ONLY son necessary? The God of the Bible sounds like something HollyWould made up. The God of the Bible, if you've noticed, all to often, allows something bad to happen only to bust in like a superhero and save the day. WHAT DOES THE GOD OF THE BIBLE HAVE TO PROVE TO HUMANS WHEN IT MADE HUMANS? So we are told. Don't believe the hype.

Answer 9

I'm having a hard time with that also....He died but then rose again so what was the punishment? And in the Old Testament Moses asks to die for the sins of his people, and God tells him that this is impossible, each person is responsible for their own sins....

Answer 10

Yes, there is a manual. Its called the Bible. And seeing as they were usingg the Jewish Torah at that time (prior to the Bible's compilation), the Torah required BLOOD ATONEMENT. So, being the unimginative people that early Christians were, they took the requirement of God to have BLOOD to atone for sins and applied it to Christianity...along with the hundreds of other myths and symbols and ideas they stole from many other religious sources that predated them.

But dont tell the Chrisitans that. None of them know the history of their beleifs, and they simply deny that this is the truth.

Answer 11

JESUS DID NOT DIE FOR OUR SINS!! It's impossible for anyone to die for another person's sin. We are all responsible for our own sins whether we like it or not; that means if we sin, we have to pay the price for it.

If Jesus died for our sins, that means that I could commit all kinds of crimes and not be responsible for it. Where is the justice in that? Jesus died for the Word and not for our sins.