Why did Jesus die for our sins?

Because we cannot die in order to pay for our sins. The wages of sin is death. We die because we are sinners, so we cannot try to use those wages in order to pay God back for our sins! Wages are given for what you are due. You earn your wages. We earn God's wrath, physical and spiritual death, because we sin against him. Nobody can redeem themselves because we are such sinners.

Jesus, however, could die for our sins. Because he was without sin, and was God incarnate. Both qualifications are required for divine justice to be satisfied - for God to be able to punish sin in the one person of his beloved Son to spare believers being punished for their sins. Jesus became sin on the cross. The wrath of God was poured out on him, so he bore our iniquities and by his stripes, we are healed. Those who believe this and trust only in what Jesus did to redeem them from the grave, and from slavery to sin, are delivered and justified in God's sight. The righteousness of Christ is then imputed to believers.

If Jesus had not agreed with this plan of redemption, which he and the Holy Spirit worked out before they created anything, then we would remain lost in our sins, for eternity. But the Word of God emptied himself of his glory in the Godhead in order to become a human and to identify with sinners in order to save those who would agree with God. That's why he did it - out of pure love for sinners, and for the honour of God's name.

Before Jesus got here within the flesh, we're instructed that sinners who repented WERE stored by way of religion within the replacement slayed animal sacrifices mentioned by way of God. And like the ones of in these days, they needed to quit sinning (that is what repenting manner). The exact atonement, nonetheless, took situation with best timing whilst Jesus grew to become the ideal sacrifice those animals prefigured. So earlier than Jesus got here, the individuals regarded FORWARD to the move at the same time the ones after, appear BACK to the atonement at the move. Therefore, in some way, you are correct: it's the identical for individuals who repent in their sins. For individuals who do not, there is not any sacrifice or heaven. It relatively do not have mattered whilst God could have selected to ship Jesus to earth however being gracious as He is, He gave mankind all of the prophecies had to support guy appreciate the actual Messiah and turn out, as soon as once more, that God maintains His guarantees involving salvation and judgments. He could not have made those any clearer.

I remember my first day of Sunday School, when my kindergarten SS teacher told me about God killing his son so that I wouldn't be punished for my sins.

I was horrified. First of all, I didn't think I was especially sinful. I had never been spanked or yelled at. (Well, I was spanked once, but when my father saw that he was wrong about what he thought I did, he said he was sorry - which didn't make the wrong right).

Second, the very notion that someone else will be killed by god was horrible.

Third, the notion that I am supposed to be grateful for God's killing his son was beyond my ability to comprehend.

Because I was required to learn these things, I became one of Christianity's victims, but thankfully, by the time I was 35, I freed myself from that bondage.

That actuality is hidden from us all. All anyone has to say is words.

It would be very nice to hear the exact causes and conditions, and the actualities, functions and results. For sure it has to do with the state of duality, division and ignorance, that conditions all those who are born and have to die.

I will observe with interest.

No loving Parent would be satisfied with the sacrifice of an innocent to make up for the sins of others.

Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins, so He had to die.

He bridged the gap between man and God.

Now we can come to God through Jesus Christ because he is the only way.

Romans 5:6-11- For, indeed, Christ, while we were yet weak, died for ungodly men at the appointed time.  For hardly will anyone die for a righteous [man]; indeed, for the good [man], perhaps, someone even dares to die.  But God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more, therefore, since we have been declared righteous now by his blood, shall we be saved through him from wrath.  For if, when we were enemies, we became reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, now that we have become reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.  And not only that, but we are also exulting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Because Jehovah is a perfect God, in our imperfect sinful state humans would be seen as enemies to God. However Jesus acts as mediator between us and God.

Romans 5:18,19- So, then, as through one trespass the result to men of all sorts was condemnation, likewise also through one act of justification the result to men of all sorts is a declaring of them righteous for life.  For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were constituted sinners, likewise also through the obedience of the one [person] many will be constituted righteous.

Jesus gave us the ability to be seen as righteous in God's eyes even while in our imperfect state. This also allowed us the prospect of living forever on a paradise earth in the future. The ultimate reason though, that Jesus was willing to die for us, that Jehovah was willing to give up his only begotten Son for us, is because of love.

John 3:16- “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life."

Here is an interesting article, "Is There Any Hope of Salvation?"

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20011115/article_01.ht...

And, "Will Earth Be a Paradise?"

http://www.watchtower.org/e/200805a/article_01.htm

Anyone who believes that his wrongdoing can be atoned for by the suffering and death of someone else is a moral pervert.

He died so that through him we could be made perfect in the eyes of God and to have a chance at attaining eternal life. But most of all because he loves us.

He died so that we wouldn't be condemned to sin and death. He bought back what Adam lost for us. A perfect life, and everlasting life. If it weren't for his sacrifice, we wouldn't have any hope. John 3:16.