If God wanted to forgive humanity's sins, why didn't He just forgive them?

God is righteous in everything he does.

Simply overlooking sin is not the answer.

God's plan for man is not to join man in man's unrighteousness but to bring us to his righteousness.

God is the Creator and the one who sustains our life.

When man sinned he separated himself from righteous God.

This separation from God is death.

This is the reason the son became flesh, a man under law.

They through his righteousness, atonement and resurrection we can be made new and righteously joined to God ,which is external life

He offered himself as a sacrifice to forgive man's sins. He did this so death would not be the end, so we could have the chance to repent of our sins. To reach the highest glory of the Celestial Kingdom you need to be perfect and that would not be possible if he didn't go through what he went through. Being in the Celestial Kingdom will allow us to be like him and in his presence again for time and all eternity. This Plan is called the Plan of Salvation.

God is Sovereign and declared death for sin. He does not go back on His word. That would make Him untrustworthy. So He made a way for a price to be paid. He took on the role himself. That is part of why Christians say God is love. For God to just say never mind to sin, makes God a liar. A price has to be paid. It's a spiritual law. It is much like a law of physics. But it is a spiritual law. Sort of like Karma. More like sowing and reaping. You get more later of whatever it is you planted. The death of the righteous was the price that needed to be paid. And ONLY God is righteous. And his blood makes us righteous. So He had to die/shed his blood.

First of all,sorry for this answer as it is not related to your Question..

I too was looking for a perfect religion which has scientific proofs. And at last I came to know none other religion has correct scientific proofs except the truth,ISLAM.

Islam is the only religion to preach starting with "No God" and continues as except Allah(Arabic word for God). And it is the only religion which tells "Don't believe anything,even God's words,without having correct proof of it". Can any religion without truth say like this?And I bet you cannot find a single mistake in Qur'an because it is the true words of God.There are even challenges in Qur'an.For example , God says "I will protect the Kaaba(in Mecca),the holy place for Muslims till the world's end." Did anybody disprove this by attacking Mecca.And I also challenge the American or any powerful nation's military --- If you can Destroy the Kaaba totally,you can disprove Islam and even I would come out of Islam.

There are many religion which boasts of scientific proofs such as Islam,Christianity,Buddhism etc.But you should remember the prophecies in Al-Qur'an(the book of Islam) is no match to other Prophecies.The Qur'an is the only book in history which is not disproved even a single sentence.You cannot even change a sentence in Qur'an.For instance,an organization consisting of hundreds of christian men was created to disprove the Qur'an.But none succeeded in that task.

Qur'an has proved so many modern discoveries such as Big Bang theory.You should think how a person who doesn't know to read and write can prove so many things which only discovered in 19th century before 1400 years.

And another scientific proof is that God through Prophet Muhammad has told that Universe is expanding(see Qur'an - Chapter : 51:47).Qur'an is given by God to the people only through prophet Muhammad(by revelations) It is not a wonder if anyone in this century or in the nineteenth century would tell that . But imagine if a person,who cannot read and write told this to the people 1400 years ago.Refer http://onlinepj.com/quran-thafseer-in-english/421-... proves that Qur'an is the words of the only God.

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Not everything can be answered in this forum. Get yourself into a good Bible study group. It sounds as though you may have had an awakening and if so you will find such study fascinating. Once you start you won't want to put the book down.

How could you trust a God that is willing to be unjust? God is just. He is perfect. And the only way that you and I can trust him is if he continues to be just. Therefore, when we sinned, we deserve to die - that's simple justice. When Jesus comes, he is free of sin. Therefore he can die in the cross in the place of sinners. He pays the price that we should have had to pay. God is just and you can trust him to be just, to be good, to be perfect.

That's why, no other religion offers true salvation, because salvation can't come by our own effort. We are sinners and we deserve to die. It is only when we have someone righteous dying in our place that we are justified and cleansed.

Glory to the Lord - Jesus Christ that died in the cross for us!

God cannot lie to Himself. For God, there must be a reconciliation and a price. God being of supreme principles demands payment of sins against Him. This is about and for God.

God bless you.

God did forgive us, he sent his only begotten son to die on the cross for us, his blood washed away our sins...

Because it's not Justice. If we're not with God, we're against him, unworthy of forgiveness.