what possible connection could there be between Jesus' death on the cross and the sins of humanity?

Question

Q Why did Jesus die? A. To save us from our sins. This is as logical as asking Q 'Why are oranges round? A. Because I crossed the street yesterday. Boh answers are illogical. They don't pertain to the Question.
And why all the drama? He's God. He can think salvation into reality for mankind.

Read Dawgfan 288's respose.Its a great example. Each successive statement has no teason or explaination for it and in no way logically flows from any of his preceeding statements. Not even loose associations as displayed in schisophrenic ramblings.
Yet he states it as if its incontravetable fact,

Answer 1

I think the passion of Christ is supposed to be some symbolic gesture.

Historicaly Christ dies because he rubbed the jewish religous powerbrokers the wrong way with all his talk of love and forgiveness. His teachings and following was a threat to the dominant religion and whoops, they revealed you to the romans..so sorry.

Normal religious squabling resulting in the assasination of a pretty decent man(or as he is known after his martyrdom, the perfect sinless man). Of course making him a martyr probably wasn't the best way to quiete his teachings. Unfortunately most of the meaning of his teachings have been lost in still more religious squabling and manipulation of text by men in lust for power and control of the actions of others.. See witch trials, the raids on the middle east the spanish inquisition and the many divisions his church became.. Because those who tried to teach after he was gone were not as perfect as the man who's words originated it. ANd every generation after changes and manipulations occured to the word and the interpretation until whatwe have today no longer reflects him..
But many continue to wrap themselves in the words of the Church and not the meaning of Christ.
God is love and forgiveness.

Answer 2

Because God said to Adam and Eve if you eat of the tree you will die. Die meaning to be separated from God in hell. After Adam and Eve ate of the tree anyway God killed a goat in there place thus starting the sacrifice (someone or something dying in your place.) The sheep or goats only cove rd the sin of man until the perfect lamb of God could come and take away the sins of the world and not cover them up. Sin is separation from God since God can't look upon sin, this is why he turned his back on his own son on the cross. Jesus being perfect could die for fallen man go to hell and pay the debt but because he was God in human flesh he didn't stay there he rose on the third day. Thus he paid the punishment that was ment for anyone or anything that sinned, separation from God. Jesus never sinned so he was able to beat death and hell. So when we die and are saved or accepted what he did for us we don't die we are just transformed from this life to the next life. This is why Jesus died on the cross. He paid a debt he didn't owe because we owed a debt we couldn't pay.

Answer 3

Maybe the question behind the question is: what is sin? Sin is doing that which God opposes.

Sin came about as a result of Adam and Eve's decision to eat of the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. Why was it forbidden? Because God said so. That's all Genesis gives us. {See first link.}
Who tempted them? Satan. Why was he there? Because he wanted to corrupt mankind. (He wasn't going to waste any time.) The reason Satan was in the Garden of Eden at this point was because he had been expelled from heaven (with his angel friends, now termed 'demons'.)

As time went on, a large percent of mankind embraced Satan's charms and opposed God's loving character and truth. They developed methods of appeasing corrupted spiritual appetites that didn't include God. Some were very evil. And many practices persist to this day. The most popular? Worship of Self. But I digress.

Part of Mosaic Law stated that man had to pay (atone) for their sins. {Second link describes the simple process of using a lamb to atone for a man's sins.} At first, people adhered to the Law and did what was right. But, eventually, many grew proud and ventured their own way and into Satan's grasp. People were still offering temple sacrifices, but it got to be for show. God tired of the pretense and sent Jesus, His Son, to be a once-and-for-all sacrifice for man's sins. {Third link.}
This event was well prophesied in the Old Testament.

The new covenant written in Jesus's holy (sinless) blood is open and free to all who accept His sacrifice for their sins.

>>I have asked myself about the 'drama', but since it's not just between God and Man, but God, Man, and Satan, it's a choice issue. When you love someone, you choose that person over others to spend the rest of your life with. Therefore, He could still think salvation and destroy Satan, but that leaves no room for choice--the real answer to the question behind the question.

Answer 4

You know very well that oranges are round because god said so. And the same thing applies to Jesus on the cross. God said so. In fact that's the answer to every single question you may have about Christianity. God said so.

Or some such rubbish...

Answer 5

Romans 5:12 says sin got here into the worldwide by one guy (unique sin of Adam), and death by sin and so death unfold to all men because of the fact all sinned. God of his very own unfastened will chosen to alter into the human (Jesus Christ) sacrifice for those he chosen to pay the fee of death for. in simple terms God is sinless, so God had to born a human and stay the sinless existence to be proper because of the fact the human sacrifice for the fee of unique sin for those He chosen out of this worldwide. absolutely everyone else has to pay for his or her very own sin. it incredibly is truthful because of the fact the lost are in simple terms getting the justice that they deserve.

Answer 6

The connection is that Jesus is supposed to be the last blood sacrifice. As in, they looked over all those lambs they were killing in the OT and said, "Hey, let's call one man Lamb Of God, kill him, and lay off the blood sacrifices for about a generation. He should be back by then anyways."

So, of all the bloodthirsty Abrahamics out there, Christians rank somewhat low on the list, except they killed their purported King to get there.

Answer 7

Except that He did not. The blood that Jesus spilled on Calvary was what cleanses us from our sins. The connection is that those who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved, because of His sacrifice on the cross.

It puts the choice on you. Who do you say Jesus is?

Answer 8

because in the order of sin and purity, blood must be spilled to pay for the sin, actually the offender, the sining person, must die because of the offense he made to God. How does the death of Jesus take care of our sin? Jesus declared that he would take our place and die in place of us dying. We should see that as grace and love from on high and love God for it. the death he died was one of the worst in history, he died for everyone's sin in their place and took all the sins away from those who accept him and call him Lord.

Answer 9

Yes, "Why would one stupid guy buying the farm two thousand years ago mean anything to me?, etc. and etc. The point of it all is that Jesus "Conquored Death", by rolling away the stone and leaving the tomb, after they did what they wanted to with him, and it follows, "so can you" if you walk by faith. By faith, means just believing and not always asking every detail...

Answer 10

Wishful thinking.

Religion doesn't rely on facts or reason. It relies on emotional hooks. It plays on human emotional insecurity. So, it doesn't matter if Jesus dying for our sins makes any sense. People will believe it anyway.