Did Jesus die for our sins, or for the sins of those that were there at the time of his Crucifixion?

Question

If you say "BOTH"....then please explain, how 2000 years later, he still died for 'our'(Christian) sins?

Answer 1

I am not even certain Christ died on the cross. I believe he was nailed to it and the torture he received is true, I am just not sure if he actually died at that time because in India there is a tomb of Jesus of Nazareth which indicates Christ lived after the "crucifiction."
At any rate you are on track because you are asking questions. I only ask that you consider Christ's life and what he stood for before the crucifiction. I think too many religions base their entire religion on Christ dying on the cross. I don't think my friend Jesus wants us to remember his death or the torture. I think he would like us to live as he lived on this plane...not as he died.
Christ did a lot with his time here. He had magnificant powers or gifts from God. He could walk on water for crying out loud...and he physically heard the voice of God which would make him psychic...and he was a healer just by touching people, as well he could diagnose and treat illness which indicates he had a direct line to the otherside to gain information. He was the greatest profit to walk the earth.
As well Jesus was humble and gave to the poor and the less fortunate and he was without much judgement. We tend to forget that Jesus was a human and we forget that God was not, is not, and will not be human. But we saythings like he is a jelous God...when God doesn't possess human negative emotion because HE is ALL perfect, ALL loving, ALL forgiving and so forth.....HE IS ALL.
Keep asking the questions and I promise you will find your Truth.

Answer 2

Actually Jesus died for ALL the sins of the world - past, present, and future. He died for the sins that were present when the world began And all the sins that would be committed until the end of times.

You have also asked a very potent question, because when he
died for ALL the world's sins - it still does not mean that we automatically go to heaven - what it means is that We still have
to realize that although our sins have been purchased by Jesus And He has died for The sins of us all - we still have to
realize that we are still sinners and must confess the fact that
we are still sinners to Him in a personal prayer, ask Him to
forgive us and ask Jesus to Save us thru His Blood - Jesus did His Part Completely - now we must do our part for Heaven.

Answer 3

If I could expand on that a little bit, you make a very good point, and not many people think about this. If Jesus died for all of humanity throughout history, then there would have been no need for Jewish law and the rite of circumcision. Therefore, the "new Jew" who believed in Christ as God, would no longer need the sacrifice of animals to atone for their sins. Christ would have provided that with his own blood sacrifice. And the new covenant I think would have started about the time of an earthquake and a ripped veil.

Answer 4

Jesus died for all sin all time. Because He was the ultimate sacrifice for sin. You must however come to Christ with a desire and pure heart and ask for forgiveness. Then in return, change your evil ways, thoughts, and being, into something better and newer, by reading and following the Bible. Proving to God and man you are a different person.

Answer 5

The book of Hebrews uses the Greek word "hapax" 8 of the 14 times it occurs in the New Testament. The word means "ONCE FOR ALL."

The author in Hebrews uses it specifically dealing with Jesus' sacrifice:

9:26 "If he had, he would have had to suffer many times since the world was created. But now he has appeared ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME. He has come at the end of the ages to do away with sin. He has done that by offering himself. Heb 27 People have to die ONCE. After that, God will judge them. 28 In the same way, Christ was offered up ONCE. He took away the sins of many people.
He will also come a second time. At that time he will not suffer for sin. Instead, he will come to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him."

Peter uses the same word also writing about Jesus' sacrifice: 1Peter 3:18 Christ died for sins ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME. The One who did what is right died for those who don’t do right. He died to bring you to God. His body was put to death. But the Holy Spirit brought him back to life.

Answer 6

Jesus is God, and God is omnipresent. This means that God is in the past, as well as in the present, and even in the future. God exists in an "eternal present"--He experiences two minutes ago as the present, and He experiences two minutes ahead of the current time as the present. Time is really not a factor to Him: hence Christians say He is "Eternal." God is outside the boundaries of time, outside the box if you will, capable of looking in and seeing everything.

Thus God knows of all sins, past, present, and future. As a Just God, He must punish all wrongdoers. Justice does not let the guilty go free. Therefore, all people, past, present, and future, were all doomed to face His punishment.

But God is also a God of Mercy. Mercy means granting undeserved pardon to the wrongdoer. How can Mercy and Justice exist at the same time? It is a contradiction--but God turned it into a paradox (something that seems like a contradiction but really isn't).

God, as Jesus, came to earth. He was 100% Human, 100% God (or 200%). As our blood relative, a Human Being, He could pay the debt in blood we owed for our sins. This is much the same way a father, when he learns his son is being fined for wrongdoing, can step up and pay the fine for him. Jesus took our place. But because He was also God, He was therefore Perfect and had never sinned Personally. This meant that He was paying for our sin, not His own, and that on the Third Day He could rise. Hence all sin, past, present, and future, is blotted out by His blood.

This is a free gift, for it is Mercy. Mercy not given for free is not Mercy, it is rather a repayment for a bribe. All one has to do to to receive mercy is to accept it. All that the wrongdoing son has to do for his fine to be paid is to let his father pay it.

Answer 7

Now if you read the Gospel according to Saint John you will note several clues which prove that Jesus was not mortally wounded during crucifixion.

1) Pilate was suprised that Jesus had apparently passed away after only 3 hours on the cross, when most people lasted 3 days. The other 2 people being crucified with Jesus had their legs broken so nobody would die during Sabbath (which starts sundown on a Friday). Jesus apparently didn't move when a centurian lightly prodded Jesus with a spear (as was the traditional way to test the deceased). Dead people do not bleed (a fact apparently not known to the centurian), but Jesus bled, it says so in the bible.

2) Jesus was then taken by Joseph of Arimethea to his private Sepulchre, and rapped head to foot in a Sindon (linen cloth), within which 100 pound weight of Myrr and Aloe were spead (Aloe and Myrr were used in 1st century medicine to help in wound clotting and as an antibacterial treatment to stop infection. This process is not traditional Jewish burial (see the burial description of Lazarus), and indicated by the herbs that Jesus' wounds were being treated.

3) Myriam de Magdala (Jesus' beloved disciple) was the first to meet Jesus at his Sepulchre on the Sunday. She recognised him and attempted to hug him. Jesus told her not to touch him (because his wounds were not fully healled, and he was still suffering pain?).

4) Jesus appeared many times after the crucifixion, and on one occasion he met all the 12 apostles in Galilee. Jesus proved he had not been killed by the crucifixion by showing Judas Thomas (Jesus' twin brother) that he still had his mortal body complete with wounds in the hands and feet.

5) By far the most convincing biblical proof that Jesus didn't die on the cross comes from the old testament where Isiah foretells that Jesus would bring salvation to all the 12 Jewish tribes. Jesus spent his three year missionary in Israel prior to crucifixion. Yet Jew's were at that time scattered all over Mesapotania, Africa and East Asia due to Jews being exilled from Israel over the centuries by concuring Kings. Ergo in order to forfil scripture, Jesus would have to have travelled to Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afganistan, Pakistan, and India (in the East), and Africa, Spain and France in the West in order to personally spread God's word to all the Jewish tribes.

Answer 8

He died for all of our sins. He thought about you and me when He was on the cross. He took our punishment as a perfect sacrifice. Accept it and believe it. That is the way that it happened.

Answer 9

I never understood this myself either. I wonder how he died for the Egyptians sins if sin wasn't even invented at the time.

Answer 10

He died for all of our sins from that time to now to eternity...for as long as man will be on this earth