Why did Jesus have to die for my sins?

Question

I don't want some lame answer because the Bible says so. Why does God require a blood sacrifice? Why did God choose to do it this way?

Answer 1

Why God Has Permitted Suffering
WHAT went wrong? What took place that spoiled the fine start God gave our first parents in the Paradise of Eden? Why, instead of the peace and harmony of Paradise, have wickedness and suffering prevailed for thousands of years?
The reason is that Adam and Eve misused their free will. They lost sight of the fact that they were not created to prosper apart from God and his laws. They decided to become independent of God, thinking that this would improve their lives. So they stepped outside the God-ordained limits of free will.—Genesis, chapter 3 .
The Issue of Universal Sovereignty
Why did God not just destroy Adam and Eve and start over with another human pair? Because his universal sovereignty, that is, his inalienable right to rule, had been challenged.
The question was: Who has the right to rule, and whose rule is right? His being almighty and the Creator of all creatures gives God the right to rule over them. Since he is all-wise, his rule is best for all creatures. But God's rule had now been challenged. Also, was there something wrong with his creation—man? We will later examine how the question of human integrity is involved.
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Why God Has Permitted Suffering
WHAT went wrong? What took place that spoiled the fine start God gave our first parents in the Paradise of Eden? Why, instead of the peace and harmony of Paradise, have wickedness and suffering prevailed for thousands of years?
The reason is that Adam and Eve misused their free will. They lost sight of the fact that they were not created to prosper apart from God and his laws. They decided to become independent of God, thinking that this would improve their lives. So they stepped outside the God-ordained limits of free will.—Genesis,chapter 3.
The Issue of Universal Sovereignty
Why did God not just destroy Adam and Eve and start over with another human pair? Because his universal sovereignty, that is, his inalienable right to rule, had been challenged.
The question was: Who has the right to rule, and whose rule is right? His being almighty and the Creator of all creatures gives God the right to rule over them. Since he is all-wise, his rule is best for all creatures. But God's rule had now been challenged. Also, was there something wrong with his creation—man? We will later examine how the question of human integrity is involved.
By man's becoming independent of God, another question was implied: Could humans do better if not ruled by God? The Creator certainly knew the answer, but a sure way for humans to find out was to allow them the total freedom they wanted. They chose that course of their own free will, so God permitted it.
By allowing humans enough time to experiment with total freedom, God would establish for all time whether humans are better off under God's rule or on their own. And the time permitted would have to be long enough to allow humans to come to what they considered the peak of their political, industrial, scientific, and medical achievements.
Therefore, God has allowed man a free rein clear down to our day to show beyond any doubt whether human rule independent of him can succeed. Thus man has been able to choose between kindness and cruelty, between love and hate, between righteousness and unrighteousness. But he has also been confronted with the consequences of his choice: goodness and peace or wickedness and suffering.
Rebellion of Spirit Creatures
There is another factor to consider. Our original parents were not the only ones to rebel against God's rule. But who else was in existence at the time? Spirit creatures. Before God created humans, he created a higher form of life, great numbers of angels, to live in the heavenly realm. They too were created with free will and also with the need to submit to God's rule.—Job 38:7; Psalm 104:4 Revelation 5:11.
The Bible shows that rebellion first broke out in the spirit realm. A spirit creature wanted total freedom. He even wanted humans to worship him. (Matthew 4:8, 9) This spirit rebel became a factor in influencing Adam and Eve to rebel, claiming falsely that God was withholding something good from them. (Genesis 3:1-5) So he is called Devil (Slanderer) and Satan (Adversary). Later, he induced other spirit creatures to rebel. They became known as demons.—Deuteronomy 32:17 ; Revelation 12:9; 16:14.
Humans, by rebelling against God, gave themselves over to the influence of Satan and his demons. That is why the Bible calls Satan "the god of this system of things," who "has blinded the minds of the unbelievers." Hence, God's Word says that "the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." Jesus himself called Satan "the ruler of this world."—2 Corinthians 4:4; John 5:19; John 12:31.
Two Issues
Satan raised another issue that challenged God. In effect, he charged that God was mistaken in the way He created humans and that no one would want to do the right thing when put under pressure. In fact, he claimed that under test they would even curse God. (Job 2:1-5) In this way Satan called into question the integrity of the human creation.
Therefore, God has permitted enough time for all intelligent creatures to see how this issue as well as the issue of God's sovereignty would be resolved. (Compare Exodus 9:16 .) The eventual experience of human history would reveal the truth about these two issues.
First of all, what would time reveal regarding the issue of universal sovereignty, the rightness of God's rule? Could humans rule themselves better than God? Would any system of human rule apart from God usher in a happy world free from war, crime, and injustice? Would any eliminate poverty and provide prosperity for all? Would any conquer sickness, old age, and death? God's rule was designed to do all of that.—Genesis 1:26-31.
Regarding the second issue, what would time reveal as to the worth of the human creation? Was it a mistake for God to have created humans the way he did? Would any of them do the right thing under test? Would any people show that they wanted God's rule instead of independent human rule?

Answer 2

From the beginning of time, God has required a blood sacrifice for forgiveness of sins. Back in the OT, people sacrificed animals for their sins. Then Jesus came and became a one time sacrifice for all. But God didn't say, "Oops, this isn't working. Jesus, you go down there and I'll have you sacrificed." That was His plan from the beginning. It was to show His love. And if you think about the Trinity, God provided Himself as a sacrifice for us.

Answer 3

I used to wonder the same thing.

God is a just God and sin requires a sacrifice of some kind. It used to be that people sin's could be covered with the blood of an animal but people eventually became so wicked and sinful that their sin required the supreme sacrifice of Christ's blood.

If a local judge let a man go that raped and murdered 1,375 children, there would be a public outcry for justice, right? It's the same with our sin in God's eyes. SOMEONE had to pay the price and he knew the deficit was greater than we could pay, so he sent Jesus as the final sacrifice to cover all sin.

Answer 4

I don't know. On New Year's Eve, I am been mediating and wondered the same thing, I consider myself a Christian. But a good backslider. All I remember is that Christ had to die in order to show that when we repent our sins, we will be resurrected as Christ was and go off to live in Heaven ...whatever that is.

now questions from me.....do you think Christian God is a true being or just energy. is Heaven real? Doesn't the Bible say that Heaven and Earth shall pass away? And why don't Catholics revere Joseph along with Mary, the Virgin Mother of Jesus.

Can't sleep.....Teresa

Answer 5

God is totally righteous and holy. Sin is an offense to His holy and righteous nature. God takes sin very seriously. It is written in Romans:
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Death is required to pay for sin. It started in Genesis 3:21, God killed an animal to "cover" the sin of Adam and Eve. He required the Israelites to offer blood sacrifices as a covering for their sins. Jesus was the only one who could totally remove the penalty of sin from His people by His death and resurrection. He was the only perfectly sinless being, the perfect sacrifice to pay for the sins of His people. Either Christ pays for our sins, or we do, through eternal death. Sin is serious, sin brings death, and God doesn't play.

Answer 6

Because supposudly you need blood sacrifice to forgive you sins. Funny thing though, if god is all powerful and can do all things, you would think he could just forgive the sin. Just do it because he can, he's god. So, I guess you wouldn't need Jesus.

Answer 7

Goes back to the rebellion of satan and 2/3 of the angles. Satan rebelled against God comparing himself to the most high God who had created satan, Satan became evil. God cast him down to the earth. At the time there was a great war between satan and God. Heaven suffered voilance, God sealed up the stars of heaven and all of the angilic world froze. The cities of the anglic world were on the earth then, They were destroyed by ice. In the great ice age. Then God gave light in the stars once more and created man in his image to destroy satan. So satan who rebelled against God is being defeated by a moral man. And that mans name is Jesus Christ yeat Christ became eternal because of his obidence to God. So God has defeated satan with out even lifting a finger really. By his childern. God send Jesus to die for the sins of the world and his blood became the atonement of all sin. God chose this sacrifice because only God could pay the cost of it. And he did and because satan can't creat blood. God is a creator, satan is a destroyer.
Jesus died for your sins and my sins because we could not redeem ourselfs from the curse of sin.

Answer 8

Only because Christianity says so. Otherwise God is an abusive father who didn't realize that there would be Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and people of other religions who don't care about Jesus or what his father made him do.

Answer 9

This is a very good question. I shall offer my understanding of the issue and hope that it provides some useful insight.

Think of what God has given you (and me and all of us). Our lives, the world we live in, friends and family. In short, everything. He didn't have to do that. He did it graciously and freely.

Now suppose we spurn God instead of thanking him, live in opposition to him instead of living by under his wise rule, refuse to worship him and instead live according to our own goals and ambitions. That's what is known as sin. In that case, God is within his rights to take away from us what he has given us. That is what death is. It is removing our lives and our experience of all that is good around us.

Even though we have sinned in this way, God has still acted with graciousness and kindness. He offered someone else to suffer death in our place. He allowed Jesus to take the penalty for our sin, even though it was you and I who deserved to die.

Answer 10

You're forgetting the ressurection. Jesus did not die forever. He came back three days later.

As to why. Who knows. Why does your father choose the form of discipline he choses.

Answer 11

I can only give you my opinion on your question..... Only someone so pure with out fault could cleanse our sin, it had to be done that way. And who more worthy then the son of the father. I really hope this helps you brother...GOD BLESS......