How did Christ bridge the gap between us and God?

Question

How is Christ dying on the cross and raising from the dead symbolize our freedom from sin? I just don't understand the significance of His death and ressurection. How is that saving us from our sins?

Answer 1

God placed on Christ the punishment that you and I deserve for our own sins......we get the free gift of eternal life....

Jesus bore the pain and penalty for our sins so that we don't have to bear the punishment...that is an act of love.

Good question.

Answer 2

God created us in His own image so we can know Him personally and have a joy-filled life. He did not make us as robots to automatically love and obey Him, but gave us a will and a freedom of choice.
Since the beginning of time, we have chosen to disobey God and go our own willful way. We still make this choice today. This results in separation from God and ends in misery.
All of us have sinned and fallen short of God's holiness (Romans 3:23).
The result of unforgiven sin is death. But God's gift is eternal life given by Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:23).
Disobeying God results in being separated from Him.They can never unite us with God.
Through the ages, people have tried many ways to bridge this gap and reach God -- without success.
The Bible says: Adam sinned, and that sin brought death into the world. Now everyone has sinned, and so everyone must die (Romans 5:12). You may think you are on the right road and still end up dead (Proverbs 14:12).
There is only one way to reach God. Jesus Christ is the only answer to this problem. He is the only one who can bring us back to God. He died on the Cross and rose from the grave, paying the penalty for our sin and bridging the gap between God and people.

Answer 3

Jesus is the ultimate meeting of justice and mercy. God is always Just so the sins of the world called for justice. There had to be sacrifice to pay for all the evil being done. But God is also merciful. He loves us. That is why He created us. So Jesus took all the sin of the world on His mighty shoulders. But He took more than sin. He took the law, and death too and they all died with Him on the cross. When He was resurrceted there was a new covenat created. Now we could live folowing God and not the law. And we didn't need to fear death because when we died we would join God in paradise.

I hope that helps.

Answer 4

This is a question that is pondered by believers and non-believers. But in a way as Christ would want me to answer you, that's what I'll do:

In the Old Testament--the era before Christ--Adam and Eve discovered sin via Satan and brought it into the world. Because of this "sin," man was no longer seen as pure in God's eyes. Since they weren't "pure," they were expelled from the Garden of Eden and everything God deemed as "good." If you remember in the old testament, men had to make sacrifices unto God as a cover-up for their sins. Because of sin, they were sure to die, but in order to be "saved," something had to die in place of the man. If you also remember, Abraham was about to sacrifice Issac, and that event foreshadowed the coming of the Messiah.

The fact the Jesus died for humanity proved that there are no more sacrifices needed or any earthly thing to dedicate to God because His only Son died on the cross so that we could have another chance with God and be saved from damnation. Instead of making all kinds of difficult sacrifices and going to a head priest to pray to God for you, Jesus' death created a liason for man to communicate with God. Remember, Jesus IS God, so God made an ultimate sacrifice...Himself--He died so that humans (the Sons of God) can believe in him and be saved from Hell. He's the only "man" to ever overcome death itself...Proving he was and is God...

Answer 5

Jesus is God the Son who came to earth to live as a man in a sinful world. He experienced life as we all do but He was perfectly obedient to God the Father and never sinned. He gave up His life as a sacrifice for our sins. Because He was sinless He rose from the grave. For those who receive Him as Savior and Lord, God accepts them as righteous because of Jesus's obedience. There sins are forgiven because of Jesus's shed blood and death on the cross. And God receives them into heaven when they die because of Jesus's victory over death by His ressurection. This is the only payment God will accept for our sins.

Answer 6

The spiritual restitution for sin is either that the sinner dies and is eternally damned (hell) or some form of payment is made, In Judaism before Christ, each sinner sacrifices a ram as atonement for sin. The High Priest sacrifices one lamb for the nation. Christ came in the form of that lamb. A one-time sacrifice for our sins (see Hebrews)--rather than having us continously remitting sins through sacrifices--which is ineffective because it does not stop sin. If the price of sin is not paid, then it remains imputed. Christ dying is so that those who will appropriate the sacrifice he makes will not have to pay by going to hell.

Moreover, Christ, being God, paid the price that we should pay--the Bible describes it as a sinless person dying for sinners--A one-time sacrifice.

Answer 7

Because without Christ dying for our sins we would have to pay the penalty of those sins and we would never be in recognition with God, because the wages of sin is death. The blood of Christ washes those sins away for all who accept Him as Lord and Savior

Answer 8

God is perfect, just a pure. He will not tolerate sin in his presence. As the Paul said, “The wages of sin is death.” So since man through his rebellion has demanded a death sentence someone had to die. God chose to take it upon himself to pay that price. So Jesus died in our place. However God also proved that death was defeated through the resurrection of his son.

Answer 9

Jesus died on the cross for our sins. He never sinned, not once in his life. He died so that we might live. We just need to believe that he died for our sins and that he rose again on the third day. He went to heaven to be with His father and has promised that he will return to earth to take all those who believe in who he is and what he did with him. Hallelujah what a Savior!

Answer 10

He became a living sacrifice. He became flesh like us and he was without sin, perfect. Only a pure sacrifice can take away our filthy sin. The Bible says blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. A couple of verses below can help

Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Psalm 24:3Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Answer 11

Christ ate from "the tree of life" something the first man, Adam, could not do because of sin. Christ was the second Adam, who lived a sinless life and conquered death. Just as Adam's sin passed to all mankind, Christ's sinlessness passes to mankind when they follow Him.
That's the best I can do.