Why are the wages of sin exactly equal to a Roman crucifixion?

Question

If it's just death, why not a more humane punishment? If it's more than death, why not years and years of torture?

Answer 1

because God says "the wages of sin is death".

Answer 2

It's the aesthetics....Christ, Son of God, nailed to the 'tree'...his mother and few loyal followers beneath him, crowds looking up at the sky. The image is incredibly iconic. It's a drawn out moment. His body creates a tau shape, spreading his form and dramatising his climactic death. And there's that brass snake bit in the Torah somewhere, which Medieval monks saw as prefiguration par exellence. The 'wages of sin' is a metaphor...which requires a metaphorical response in the Crucifixion (which was practiced by the Persians way before the Romans).

Answer 3

No, the wages of sin is eternal death. Romans 6:23.
Jesus suffered eternal death for all the sins of those He came to save.

Answer 4

The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.

Jesus suffered our sins on the cross. He was without sin, so death could not keep Him in the grave. The penalty of sin is death. Jesus raised from the dead victorious over death and sin for us. So also we will raise from the dead at the day of resurrection complete. All us who are redeemed by His blood, born of God.

Jesus said that if He is lifted up, He will draw all mankind to Him. What we see, is mans sin nature killing, torturing a person without sin. Jesus said, "It is finished!". on the cross.

Answer 5

According to the book of Romans-"The wages of sin is death." This does not refer to physical death but to eternal separation from God in eternity. The only way to escape this is to accept Jesus as your personal savior. See the book of John chapter 3 .

Answer 6

God doesn't mean bodily death he means a spiritual death...much worse...

The wages of sin are the death of your soul.

Answer 7

The crucifixion that Jesus suffered wasn't a typical crucifixion. It was much worse than what was typically done in those days, and it was a lot more painful and humiliating than can truly be depicted in picture or film. He was betrayed, beaten, humiliated, beaten again, humilated again and deserted. While most depictions of Christ are modest in that they show a loin cloth, in reality, people were crucified in the nude, and it was not uncommon for the crowd to stone the genitalia, and poke and smack at it with sticks. The arms were spread wide, constricting the lungs, making breathing difficult if not impossible. The crosses were not finished wood, and large splinters often embedded in the flesh up and down the length of the body. It would have been necessary for Christ to hitch Himself up and down that wooden beam in order to breath, constantly scrapping in multiple splinters. Each move would have aggravated the wounds where the nails were. Crucifixion was horrible.

As a Christian, when I struggle in life, my Lord stands beside me, guides me, comforts me and aids me. All of my present struggles now, are not only the result of my sin, but of generations of sin by my family.

When Christ was crucified, the Father did not stand beside Him. He did not aid Christ. He did not show His Son mercy. God did it to Him. Those people behaved so viciously and violently towards Christ because they were tools of God's judgement. The Father poured out onto His Son the wrath we deserve for our sins.

This means, telling a simple white lie, such as "I feel fine" when we really don't feel fine deserves all that pain, all that suffering, all of that anguish, all that humiliation. Murder deserves all that pain, all that suffering, all that anguish, all that humiliation. Why? Because God does not differentiate in degrees of sin. To God, a white lie is just as bad a sin as murder. And God hates sin.

Let me be clear on this point. God HATES sin. Sin attacks that which God loves: us. Sin destroys our bodies, destroys our lives and destroys our souls. Sin enslaves us and seperates us from God. Sin is horrible to God and He judges it most severely, most harshly.

Those who are unsaved are slaves to sin; they can't do anything but sin. Those who are saved still sin, but they don't have to. By accepting Christ as their savior, the bondage to sin is broken.

There is a lot that goes into being saved, but when someone has been saved it is by God's grace alone. To receive grace means to receive something we can't earn, can't buy and don't deserve. Christ chooses to accept the repentance offered for sin, and since He can see into the hearts of all men, He knows if the repentence is genuine. He mediates between the sinner and the Father and the Father chooses to wash the sins away with Christ's blood. The Father forgives and we receive the mercy Christ did not. This is when a person is baptised in the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit stays with the person to guide them away from sin.

This is often experienced as a continually growing conscienceness of sin in our lives. I am continually pinned to the wall when I sin and I stay pinned to the wall until I repent. Being graced with salvation isn't a one-time thing; rather for me it's something that happens again and again and again. Unpleasant though this is, it is good because sin destroys.

It isn't that the wages of sin are exactly equal to a Roman crucifixion. It's that the wages of sin are exactly equal to the Father pouring out His judgement and wrath on His only child to break the power sin has on us. Its that the wages of sin are exactly equal to the only perfect and sinless being to ever walk this planet voluntarily sacrificing Himself to break the power of sin. There is love in those actions of a kind I can't even begin to describe. More love than I can imagine. And truly more than I deserve.

Answer 8

I like the "Git-er-done" attitude.

Answer 9

Because they can't create anything new. They can only parrot what they read.

Answer 10

THEY ARE NOT .'GOD'S PUNNISHMENT IS YOU WILL JUST BE "GONE" !!!!!!