If God wanted to forgive humans, why couldn't he just Forgive?

The only right answer so far is Danimal's. This is just to supplement it.

Christ had to die to satisfy the legal requirements relating to crime and punishment. If forgiveness was extended without due recourse to law, then injustice would be the result. One of God's attributes is that he is perfectly just and holy. He is utterly righteous. Nor can he tolerate partiality. If those things were not true of God, he would be a monster.

The crime that all humanity commits is easily demonstrated in their inability to keep God's Ten Commandments. Those Commandments are perfect, and perfectly just. Anyone violating them sins against God. He cannot 'just forgive' us! Otherwise, what was the point in stating those laws? The perfect law of God is designed to prove beyond argument that nobody can please God by keeping his perfect laws. We all sin and fall far short of the glory of God. As God states that "without holiness, no-one will see the Lord", then none of us could ever get to be in his holy presence unless God took action to enable our sins to be paid for, legally.

That is why Jesus came. He came to pay the price of sin so that God was, in Christ, reconciling the world to himself. This proves God to be perfectly just whilst also being a God of mercy. He need not have done that. He could have just turned his back on us sinners and left us to end up in hell. But he chose to demonstrate his great love for us in that, whilst we were still powerless, Christ came to die for us, the ungodly - in our place. The wages of sin is death, states the Bible in Romans chapter 5. Christ paid the ultimate price because he was sinless. He need not have died, but he chose to sacrifice his perfect, sinless life, so that God's perfect justice could be satisfied. Read chapter 5 through to the middle of chapter 8 and you will get the full answer to your question. There is a legal basis for the forgiveness of God, otherwise God would be unjust.

The answer is actually much deeper then you think. In the book of Genesis you can read the account of Adam and Eve and how they deliberately disobeyed God and chose to follow their own course of life in Romans 5:12 we read that through one man sin entered in to the world and through sin we die. The only way to compensate the lost of a perfect life is with another perfect life (Romans 5:19). It's interesting to note that right after Adam and eve disobeyed God foretold the prophecy of his for told seed which would make for the possibility of us gaining everlasting life (Gen 3:15) which gets even deeper in to this topic but Id like to keep it simple. Basically we were never meant to die, The penalty for Adam sinning was death yet he died over 900 years after sinning (Genesis 5:5) And Psalm 37:9-11, 29 says that the righteous will inherit the earth forever, Finally John 3:16 a familiar scripture says that God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten son so that those exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but gain everlasting life. If you any more questions about this, because again it is a very deep topic fell free to ask me. I will always use scriptures to back what I have to say since it is Gods word that that matters not mine, at least in this regard

Hey Jack,

Suppose someone brutally murdered your mother. He was arrested, tried, and convicted.

He now faces sentencing. As he appears before the judge he begins sobbing uncontrollably

and expresses his sorrow for what he has done. He is truly repentant and sorry for what he has done.

He begs the judge for mercy and promises he will never do anything like that again and will live a better life from here on out. The judge hears all this and is deeply moved. The judge then says, "Well I tell you what, since you've shown such sorrow and regret for what you've done, I'm going to just let you go free now. So tell me. As one who has been victimized by this crime, who are you more angry with now - the murderer or the judge who let him off? You see, that's why Christ had to die. Because God is a righteous judge, He can't just say, "Ah, shucks, just forget about it and do better next time." No, if sin is defined by the law of God and the law spells out the penalty, then God is bound by His honor to carry out that justice. But because He has mercy on us, He sends His very own Son to pay the horrific penalty for Your sins. Talk about love. How many of you would send your only child to be brutally killed by a bunch of rebellious sinners so they could be forgiven. Put that in you pipe and smoke on it a while. Of course you're free to reject this offer of love and pay the penalty on your own if you so choose.

Hope this has helped give you perspective on it.

Jim

Hebrews 12:5 - 7

And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons:

"My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline,

and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,

because the Lord disciplines those he loves,

and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son."

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

Galatians 4:1 - 2

What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. He is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.

Ephesians 4:13 - 14

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.

You haven't actually ever read a bible, have you? He didn't send his son to die to forgive us, he sent him as a sacrificial lamb to redeem us. I don't want to spend a whole lot of time explaining this, as you won't buy it anyway but on the off chance I can plant a seed, he was trying to make a point in such a way that the Jews of the time would understand. They all understood about sacrifices and God made his son a sacrifice for us to show us that he loved us so much that he would sacrifice his son for us. In the Old Testament, God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son to prove his love for God. Just as he was about to do it, God told him to stop and release his son; he had proven his love. So in the New Testament, God actually does sacrifice his son to prove his love for us.

You must understand the ugliness of sin. It is rebellion against an infinite, perfectly holy, and perfectly good and just God. The severity of punishment for a crime is dependent upon the importance of the one against whom it is committed. If you shot me you would get a long prison sentence. If you shot the president you would be executed. So when we sin against God, who is infinite and infinitely good, we deserve an infinitely horrible punishment. What's my point? God is just and therefore must deal with the crimes committed against him. He is also merciful and is willing to forgive sin. That is why Christ died on the cross. God's justice was satisfied so that mercy could be shown without God having to compromise his justice. Since Christ is infinite and infinitely good, he can satisfy God's justice by taking the punishment himself. You and I aren't capable of paying our debt. He is. I don't know if you will like this answer or not, but it is the answer. I hope that helps.

Which do you like? Sprite or coke or pepsi or root beer? Why? It's just your preference. Let's say you like coke the best. You COULD drink sprite even if you like coke better, but you won't because you like coke better. The same goes with God. He COULD have decided just to forgive His people without sending His son, but His chosen way of granting forgiveness was sending Jesus to die for our sins. Why? It's just how he decided to do things.

He would forgive any human that asks for forgiveness. He does not go over the boundaries of Free Will and Choice. You have to want Christ forgiveness and repent to get it. Its how it works.

God cannot allow sin into Heaven and sent His Son Jesus Christ to be the Perfect Sacrafice to save humanity from Hell

Maybe because there is no reason for God to forgive. God cannot be harmed, mocked, or insulted. Just because we humans are capable of being harmed doesn't mean God can be harmed like us.