Christians, please answer?

Question

I admit i dont know much about your religion, so i have a few questions....
If im not mistaken, you said that Jesus is the son of God and that he died to atone for the sins of man, my question is.... what is it that man did that was so sinfull that required Jesus to die?

Sorry in advance if my ignorance offends anybody.

Answer 1

God created man perfect. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, sin entered into the world followed by pain,suffering,old age, and death. Sin paid a high price...Adam's perfect life, worse he became a slave of sin.

How would this be undone? How would we be remove from this slavement?

In equation, what could buy back the perfect life that Adam lost? That would also be a perfect human life...since all human came after Adam sinned, we are all born into sin and no human is perfect.

So God provided a ransom to save us from sin. Ransom, just like when someone you love is kidnapped, you pay the amount the kidnappers asked for.

Jesus, existing as a spirit in heaven, willingly became human (Philippians 2:5-9) and gave his life for us to pay the ransom that sin wants. Perfect life=Perfect life. JEsus bought us and freed us from sin's slavery.

Answer 2

Just look at the Ten Commandments for an example. People lie, steal, cheat, lust after another person in there mind and heart. these are all sins. Some don't honor or respect their Parents. These are all sins. I you take something that doesn't belong to you even if you are young that is sin. Told a white lie. As you can see it is easy to sin. It is in our nature to sin and before Jesus came and died on the cross, the people( Israelites) gave an offering to the priest to be slain and atone for their sins. Jesus came and did that, All we have to do is ask him to come into our heart, admit we are a sinner and need to be saved and Jesus will forgive us our sins and save us. We will continue to sin but we can ask for forgiveness. You can only be saved once, we still need to be forgiven if the sins we continue to make. I hope this has answered your question and you will consider what i have said about getting saved.

Answer 3

Ignorance doesn't offend me. Willfull ignorance does. You can see a bit of that in some of the answers above mine!

The very short answer is that humans live in a state that is distanced from God. God created humans without sin, and the very first two people he created decided they didn't want to live like that. They violated the one rule that God gave them. As time passed, humans have just been following suit. The death of Christ was the sacrifice that paid atonement for the sins of mankind, in essence.

See? Even a non-believer could tell you that much and just answer your question without being a jerk...or at least I thought they could. All this is told right at the front of the Bible, in the book of Genesis, if you want to look it up.

Answer 4

As a christian we believe God has always been in contact with us. Guiding us through life with instructions on how to behave. It has been this way since Adam and eve. The sin he died for was the sin of man. We all lie. Some people cheat and steal. Some even take others life. Christian or not everyone believes this is wrong. Jesus died for all of these horrible things that we do. His death cleanses us of our sins and now a simple prayer of forgiveness takes away our sins. Why? What Isaiah wrote, Jesus fulfilled. He laid down his life for his sheep (John 10:15). In his death, he carried our sins and suffered for our transgressions; he was punished so that we might have peace with God. Through his suffering and death, our spiritual illness is healed; we are justified—our sins are taken away. I hope this helped :)

Answer 5

The "fall" of mankind is part of an angelic conflict in which God will ultimately prove His judgment is fair before Satan and the fallen angels.

According to the Bible we are part of a drama that is being played out. God created a perfect environment that the man ruled and he stayed in relationship with God enjoying the benefits of His presence as well as the Gardens. There was no sorrow, death, suffering, pain etc
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Satan then deceived the woman and then Adam disobeyed God in eating from the one tree forbidden. Sin and death entered our dimension. According to the Bible this changed mankind's nature drastically and it became corrupted. It gave mankind a sin nature which is antagonistic to God.

This is very generalized version of what happened and not a lot of detail is laid out in the fall of mankind, however, the Bible gives a lot of detail about the redemption of mankind and that God would be glorified through the New Testament church.

Answer 6

it is called original sin that man has passed down from generation all the way starting with Adam and Eve.God the Father is so Holy that He cant tolerate sin.All man sins and the only way to get right with God the Father is to ask Jesus to come into your heart by repenting of your sin.Jesus is a bridge from man to God the Father because when a person receives Jesus into their heart God does not look at the man God sees Jesus.Because Jesus died and shed His blood for us that we may have eternal life

Answer 7

It's the nature of sin in us to forget what we did wrong. And to convince ourselves that the wrong we did wasn't really wrong at all. And the excuses flow.

What Jesus did was tell us about sin at times. Even the thought of lusting after the opposite sex was as bad as the Deed. That's in Matthew 5. To God, it's just as bad to think of doing someone wrong.

What that was supposed to do is make us repent, to be sorry for the wrong that we did to others. And then in the state of hoplessness that we might experience because we KNOW that we think things that are wrong, turn to Him.

We need Jesus to remove that nature. It will be with us until He takes it away. He does that when we are with Him.

Answer 8

During the time of Moses, God have already punished the sinners for death and at the time of Noah, the same was done or happened,all sinners were punished for death.

So after the time of Noah, men or humans did the same thing, no b elief in God and his teachings, not obeying his commandments and laws and making man made images to serve as their gods.,killings of other humans, stealing of things and many other sins. God then have decided to have changed his act by sending Jesus to earth and to be born as man from a Virgin and to live as man on earth to save the sinners from sinning or committing sin against God.

Jesus then as man have spread the words of God and taught non b elievers of God about the existence of God and taught them of his teachings, to obey God, to obey his commandments, but the Jews who do not believe him instead arrested him and brought him to Pontius Pilate for jusgment but then the Jews demanded that Jesus be nailed on the cross to serve as his punishment telling them as the Son of God.Pontius Pilate gave Jesus to the Jews and sentenced him to be nailed in the cross which caused his death, but then because he is the Son of God, Jesus rose from the dead and descended to Heaven and sit at the right hand of God in Heaven.

yet humans continue committing sins and going against God and some do not believe God, so that through the prophecy in the Revelation Chapter of the New Testament, Jesus will come to earth for the second time to judge us from our sins.which are against God.
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Answer 9

Read about Sodom and Ghamora. These were basically two Las Vegas cities back in Biblical times. Ya know "Sin City"

Answer 10

That's good that you asked a thoughtful and truly religious question.

The short answer is in found in the Bible in Gensis 2. God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat of one tree in the Garden of Eden. He said if they disobeyed him then he would die. It would be akin to a doctor telling his patient not to eat a certain food because it would be harmful to your body. But if they continued to do so then death would come sooner.

In the case of Adam and Eve case it was not something that hurt the body, but the very soul of man, that God had created holy and sinless. Man had a perfect relationship with a Holy and righteous God until the act of disobedience. Like in genetics when the human characteristics are handed down from generation to generation so too did the curse of sin, the act to reject God's ways pass down from generation to generation.

God told Eve in Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

The first messianic prophecy was told how a redeemer would come to his earth and free man of the curse of sin so that man could once again have a true relationship with God as he had at the Garden of Eden.

The whole of the Old Testament has the genological line from Adam until Jesus Christ. He is the messiah, the one that frees all man from the curse of sin.

Jesus took the death sentence for sin for all mankind. But he was God. God knew that no man could do this, to live a sinless life from his birth until manhood. Only Jesus Christ did. But he who knew no sin in his life, took on the pentaly for sin on himself. Why? John 3:16 and 17 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."

That was Jesus's life mission on this earth found in John 12:27 " Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour."

Jesus chose to do God's will and command rather than to do His own will. Something man's first parents Adam and Eve could not do. Sometimes doing God's will is the hardest thing one can do. But spiritually itt is rewarding. because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross now once a man repents of the sin nature that is born in him, and accepts God's forgiveness of sin. He is spiritually born again to have new and holy and righteous relationship with God. He becomes a new creature in Jesus Christ.

I said much but you asked a deep question, from a Christian.