Why was jesus sacirficed for our sins when God knew we would continue to sin no matter what?
Isaiah 53:5 is a good place to start. Jesus was the perfect sacrafice to cover us for all time.
edit: better yet Hebrews 10:5
well i know that, i just wonder why someone so perfect and true would be sacirficed for so many wrong doers. Someone that would never come up short of being perfect, for someone like me who will sin without even trying to do so. I just wonder why jesus didnt marry and have perfect children. Why God left the world to be filled with children from adam and eve, and didnt sacirfice all of them and start over with Jesus and a wife for him
In becoming human God the Son assumed the sum total of what it means to be human. He didn’t just assume a glorified humanity, He assumed the weak, mortal humanity that each and every one of us has inherited from Adam. Though unlike us, He was entirely without sin. In taking humanity upon Himself, He sanctifies it–sanctifies and justifies us–by His perfect life, His death, and His resurrection. He plunges our humanity into death in His Person, and then comes out the other side alive–being raised from the dead. In this way He has defeated the powers of darkness of this fallen world, by bearing the weight of our sin and its consequence (death), making satisfaction on our behalf by being wholly righteous and obedient, invades and conquers hell and the grave, and defeating the devil and his tyranny over the world.
Christ has assumed our humanity, and redeemed it by becoming what we are and being perfect and holy and righteous and pulls us through death in and through Himself.
Christ has made satisfaction by being righteous and holy, and the Law and its demands are fully met, satisfied, and fulfilled by His perfect life.
Christ has become our substitute, by bearing upon Himself the ugly and full weight and consequences of sin–death. Bearing upon Himself, willingly, the totality of human ugliness and plunging it into death in His own body and shedding His innocent blood.
Christ has purchased us–ransomed us–from the jaws of death and from the power of the devil. By defeating the devil at the devil’s own game: death. The devil, therefore, has lost. Not just in part, but in full–the devil is a conquered foe.
We were strangers and enemies of God, dead in our sins, lost, but Christ found us, reconciled us, He brought us into Himself and made us sons of His Father, that we may call His Father our Father. He has given us the Holy Spirit, who cries within us, “Abba! Father!”. Has established us in His kingdom to be joint-heirs with Him, to share in His life. A life we have by the Spirit, through faith, and continue to look toward the resurrection of the dead and when God makes all things new: New Heavens and New Earth.
Yes, as long as we bear these mortal bodies of death, sin clings to us; but we have been given a promise and a hope that we bear with faith; that what God began He will continue to do, and will fully accomplish on the Last Day when even these mortal bodies will be raised up and transformed to be like His glorified resurrected body which He has, even now, seated at the right hand of the Father in glory and when He comes again as Judge of the living and the dead, with His everlasting kingdom, in the World to Come, without end.
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Because of Gods love for us.
Eph 3: And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, **18 **may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, **19 **and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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Love. He so loved the world. Which means everyone.
Peter
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You ask such interesting questions that I never think of asking. I appreciate it, because these questions are often asked by unbelievers and it’s a good exercise to think out what the right answer would be. So why didn’t God just start over and start over with Jesus? I think that’s what you’re asking.
For one thing, Jesus was not just a human being. He was God who took on a body and lived among us. His Father wasn’t human, but the Holy Spirit. He is both man and God. As such, He came to restore what Adam had lost. You could say that He was the prototype of what man was always intended to be and was created to be. One with God in spirit. Man’s spirit alive in God. That connection with God perfect in all ways. When sin entered in, that connection was lost and now it was man’s soul that rose up to take it’s place. The soul is where sin resides and it’s sin that causes us to break with God.
Jesus came to redeem and to reconcile us to the Father who created us. Peter mentioned love and that is true. Should the Father just wipe His hands of us and start over? Is that love? Because God loves us in spite of us. He wants us to be His and He wants us to fellowship with Him. There was no starting over. It wasn’t even a consideration. All through the Bible we see this; God reaching out to man, forgiving, restoring and when man eventually failed, He does it again.
No matter our condition, we have a God who loves us and is Himself love. Does a good parent right off a wayward child and start over with a new child? A good parent doesn’t do that. They will do everything they can to bring that wayward child back to them. Our Father is no less. I am so grateful for His love.
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Sin is not merely a list of bad actions or mistakes than an indulgent parent could overlook with a wave of the hand..
Sin is a profound rupture, it is a rebellion against the Creator’s good order, a corruption of human nature that brings death, separation from God, and bondage to evil powers. From Genesis, the wages of sin is death, which is not as an arbitrary punishment, but as the natural consequence of turning from the source of life. God’s holiness cannot coexist with evil in unjudged harmony; to treat sin lightly would be to deny His character and allow chaos to continue…
God could have just forgiven in an abstract sense, but that would bypass justice, truth and the gravity of the offense.
It would cheapen love itself.
Instead, the cross demonstrates that forgivenss is costly, infinitely so, because it upholds both God’s perfect righteousness (sin must be dealt with) and His perfect love (He bears the cost Himself).
Romans 5:8: “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Jesus’s death was not primarily about stopping all future sinning on spot…it addressed multiple layers of the human problem…
- On the cross, Christ bore the penalty for our sins, past, present and future in our place. He became a sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God This provides legal pardon and reconciliation. Believers are declared righteous not because we have become sinless overnight, but because Christ’s perfect obedience and sacrifical death are credited to us by faith. God knew we would stuble, but the cross overs even those ongoing failure for those united to Christ…
- The cross defeated the powers that enslave us, that is sin, death and devil…
Jesus did not merely pay a debt, but He broke sin’s dominion. Death could not hold Him, and in His resurrection, He offers new life. Sin’s power is broken at the root for the beliver, even if its presence lingers in our fallen bodies and a broken world. - The sacrifice opens the dorr to the Holy Spirit’s indwelling work. We are not left in our sins but rather we are given the power to go and sin no more, as a new direction and growing freedom. This is the distinciton between justification ( a one time declaration of righteousness) and sanctification (the lifelong process of becoming holy in practice, conformed to Christ’s image). Paul describes the struggle vivdly in Romans 7, yet immediately pivots in Romans 8 to the Spirit’s enabling, that “There is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus…For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death”
God foresaw ongoing sin not as a flaw but as part of the reality of redeemed humans still living in mortal, unglorified bodies within a fallen creation.
Jesus was sacrificed because sin’s penalty had to be paid and its power broken in a way that upholds God’s character while offering real hope to broken people.
God knew our frality, that we would stumble even after faith yet chose this path precisely because of that knowledge. It ultimately allows for a relationship of grace…
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Jesus was sacrificed because God is a just God and what man did was punishable by death, so someone had to die and the only just thing that could be done was not to kill us all, because God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, knowing He is the only one that could do it without sinning, so just like by one man sin entered the world, by one perfect man, all could be justifiably redeemed and let live.
We don’t have to be perfect but God decided since the world got corrupted He plans to transform our sinful flesh bodies into pure and clean spirit beings with a spiritual body, and in the meantime yes there is some suffering involved for all, however, He is teaching us about Love and how to love. He told me that you can not learn to love without suffering!
Jesus said He knew us before we were in the womb, right? Ok so we were in Heaven, and (this is my personal speculation) and probably saw Lucifer fall, and then someone asked a question? What does that mean God? What is love? What is evil? And in Heaven no one really knows what evil is or love, we had no knowledge of good and evil…He’s answering our questions right now!
I think I’m going to trust Him next time and not open my mouth.
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@Edward429451 i appreciate your feed back thank you. I see you are from or profile says you live in my home town. thank you again
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Thanks @Samuel_23 i always appreciate feedback and everyones ansewrs to my questions.
@Bestill Thanks for the feedback, im definitely a believer though. And of course i know what the bible says about it all i just wonder what it is about us that God chose us over his son. You said a good parent doesnt write off a wayward child and start over with a new one and of course they dont. But they also wouldnt send their trouble free son to death row in place of their trouble some one either. And this is the point im trying to bring up. Not that im ungrateful or am an unbeliever or that im questioning the scripture. I just wonder why Im so special?