Why is Jesus' death considered a payment for ALL of our sins?

Because he said so.

Brandon

Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. God provided a coat of skins to cover up the knowledge that sin brought. (Genesis 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.) The skins would have come from an animal being sacrificed (by God). This forms the basis of a blood sacrifice for the remission of sins. The Levitical Law follows this precedent, and this is the law that Jesus came to fulfill. Jesus is the only perfect sacrifice for the sin(s) of mankind. The Levitical Law also required a perfect specimen to be sacrificed.

Romans 5:19 (New International Version)

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19For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Many are made righteous through the sacrifice of that one man-Christ Jesus

Try to look at it from God's point of view. What is in it for God for Jesus to die for our sins?

He did it for his own sake. He wanted to save us from the horrible direction society was going in (perhaps without Jesus, we would have destroyed ourselves). God loves us and wanted us to stop destroying ourselves. Although the sin of man is so deep that it is built into our very being. This has been proven true by science since evolution has the selfish and sinful one passing on his genes to the next generation more often than the sinless one.

All of Jesus' life is like a multimedia show for us to understand what God wants from us.

But God is telling us that our sins run so deep, that it is impossible for us to correct for them. Only God can do it.

The people of Jesus' time practiced animal sacrifice to seal a bond or covenant with God. The purer and more perfect the sacrifice, the deeper the covenant. To them, the sacrifice of the Lord would be the ultimate sacrifice after which all other sacrifices must stop.

So with God making a sacrifice of himself (Jesus) it is like he is saying, Your sins run so deep that you cannot comprehend how they hurt me. You cannot repair the damage. See, this is what it takes, the sacrafice of God himself.

It is a gesture from an infinite being, that says, I forgive you. The forgiveness had to come from God to himself. He has to allow himself to forgive us. We see that through the sacrifice of Jesus.

Very deep and powerful stuff. Needs lots of meditation. Or you could just discount it and be cynical like so many others. But you should at least try. I mean meditate on this mystery for a few years before deciding anything. The living word of God is worthy of a serious look.

Jesus is the only way of salvation because He is the only One who can pay our sin penalty (Romans 6:23). No other religion teaches the depth or seriousness of sin and its consequences. No other religion offers the infinite payment of sin that only Jesus Christ could provide. No other “religious founder” was God become man (John 1:1,14) – the only way an infinite debt could be paid. Jesus had to be God so that He could pay our debt. Jesus had to be man so He could die. Salvation is available only through faith in Jesus Christ! “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

1st John 4:14, "The Father has sent the Son to be the savior of the world."

Well, I would assume Jesus is the world's savior, including everyone

Jesus was perfect and sinless and He took the sins of the world on Him so that we would be saved. Nobody else can do that.

it is considered a payment for all of mankind because God so loved the world that He gave His only son, born of the virgin Mary. not Joe's third son who's married to Stacy. if you read the new testament you will understand

everybody dies because we are born in sin. Jesus wasn't. he did not deserve to die, but he did. He give himself as a sacrifice. when we die, we are not sacrificing ourselves. Jesus's sacrifice was the atonement for mankind's sins because he himself was sinless.

read the Bible

He wasn't just crucified. Before hand, He went through other things...such as feeling all of our pain, feeling all of our suffering. I think that was harder to go through than the actual crucifixtion.

I tried crucifying myself too, but I couldn't get the last nail in!