Why do Christians think the messiah was to save people from their sins?

Answer 1

John 1:29-31

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel."


Jesus didn't call him a liar, so obviously Jesus condoned, or accepted what he was saying, and he said Jesus took away the sin of the world.

Answer 2

Paul says it explicitly in Romans 5:12-21 and in Galatians 2:11-21.

Worthy of note - in Galatians 2 and Acts 1 we get the impression that the original apostles understood this differently from Paul, that Jesus was in fact the Moshiac, the god-man leader who would lead Israel to victory and a liberal Jewish reformer.

The idea of grace through sacrifice is unknown to Christian leaders before Paul brings it to the Apostolic Council recorded in galatians 2 & 3. Paul started teaching this as a revelation without first being taught Christian doctrine (Galatians 1:16). In Galatians 2:9 & 10 we see that the original Apostles accepted Paul and said he should go to the Gentiles and asked no theological change sof him but that he continue to preach helping the poor - the one theological current that underlies all Christian strands.

What we have today is Pauline Christianity. Under the leadership of Athanasius, Augustine, and others all other doctrines were laid waste. And so now if you don't believe Jesus was a human sacrifice Mithras-style then Evangelicals won't let you call yourself Christian (see Gresham Machen, for example).

I personally like CS Lewis' hypothetical pondering from Mere Christianity in which he suggests that, since God is eternal and not just everlasting, that grace was always extended and Jesus' life, death, and resurrection are the symbols in time for man that represent an eternal relaity and that making a sacrifice or paying a ransom are just the metaphors we can best use to understand this.

Answer 3

It's an updated version of the sacrificial lamb idea. Before that they would kill a lamb to take their sins for them. Jesus just made the whole process cheaper and easier. This is where the term 'Scape Goat' came from. It is some Innocent thing that you use to take the blame for your naughtiness.

Then they of course have to make it apply to everyone so they come up with the 'all have sinned' line and also invent sins like making it a sin for people to touch each other in certain ways, to think certain things or to not believe certain things. Just in case lets add 'original sin' so that everyone is born guilty and let's make 'Hell' so you need to be saved from something even if you have everything in the world.

And people buy this stuff. Incredible.

Answer 4

Because He was prophesied to do so. Nay sayers here on YA have obviously never read the Tonach, nor understood what the Passover Lamb was all about.

Isaiah 53:10
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin.

Daniel 9:26
“And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself"

Matthew 1:21
And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.”

1 John 2:2
And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

Hebrews 10:4-6
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:

“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—
In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’” - ref. Psalm 40

Answer 5

American Heritage Dictionary defines messiah as 'One who is anticipated as, regarded as, or professes to be a savior or liberator'. It also defines it as 'The anticipated savior of the Jews'.

From this, see the messiah as the one who will save. The deliverer. But, from what? Sin?

American Heritage bible defines sin as both 'Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God' and 'A condition of estrangement from God resulting from such disobedience.'

From this, we see that sin is a way to turn away from GOD or rebel. the bible even calls lack of faith as a sin. The Jews expected (some still do) that a messiah would come and save them. Christians believe that the Messiah has already come. Of course I speak of Jesus.

here is a bible verse that seems relevant:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."
(John 3:16-18 ESV)

Here is another:

Mark 2:16-18

16When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"

17On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

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This is why christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah who has come to save us from sin and from eternal damnation. He came to show us eternal life

Answer 6

Isaiah 53, Psalm 22, Gen.3:15,

Answer 7

God was very angry with people because they they can't stop being evil. He gave the world a last chance by sending Jesus. Because Jesus took on all our sins and died, we are saved if we believe. It is our choice. We are saved from our sins if we repent and have faith and allow God's Holy Spirit to work in us.

Answer 8

What is you question about?
Messiah = Expected deliverer
Messiah = By Handel (Music)

What exactly is you question? Jesus Christ was crusified and died for the remission of sins......................
As far as Christians, did you know that Satan also believes the scriptures and knows it is true but chooses to be evil.

Answer 9

He is the bridge over the barrier of sin. Sin separates man from God.

Answer 10

The Bible is about "Covenants" with God and mankind; contracts. God never goes back on his covenants he makes; mankind has biffed it numerious times.

King David (fulfiled the covenant of God giving mankind a King, ruler) was promised by God to have a Messiah who would be more powerful than a king and save them.