Can you clarify with Bible verses why Jesus was necessary?

Paul explains in Romans 5:12, "When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned." This seems to support the concept of Original Sin. The Adam and Eve story was a myth that tried to explain how death, toil and other woes came into the world, and why we aren't immortal; and like the Greek Pandora myth, a woman is blamed (and by extension, in a patriarchal society, all women).

The sacrifice of Jesus seems to be an extension of the scapegoat and the biblical practice of offering sacrifices: "But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness." (Leviticus 16:10)

And in Revelation 5:6, John writes "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.". Although it's a Lamb rather than a Goat, the idea of sacrifice of an animal on whom has been loaded the sin of mankind is there. I suspect that Lamb suggests a purity that a Goat doesn't.

That last point is illustrated in Matthew 25:31 onwards, "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.".

The gospels portray Jesus in various ways: Compassionate (healing ministry - one of many "healers" at the time), angry and aggressive (calling Pharisees "Hypocrites" etc, attacking the tradesmen in the temple, and so on), and even initially uncompassionate (the Syro-Phoenician woman, for example, when he initially refused to exorcise her daughter as they were Gentiles - "dogs" - until she begged for the "scraps" – Matthew 15:22-28 & Mark 7:25-30).

And in Matthew 10:34-38 and Luke 12:49-53, he states that his mission isn’t to bring peace but set the earth on fire and to set members of households and families against each other.

So if Jesus was a real person, he doesn't seem perfect, but complex like other men.

But I kind of think the Jesus of the gospels was probably a legend in who were assimilated proverbs and morals of a sect and tradition, and maybe attributes of several leaders of the sect.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 3:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:23

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 14:6

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

John 3:16-17.

He became Kin to us, fulfilling the Law of the Kinsman Redeemer. It was a part of the Law of Moses, which Jesus fulfilled.

Hebrews 2

9 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

10 In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. 11 Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.[g] 12 He says,

“I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;

in the assembly I will sing your praises.”[h]

13 And again,

“I will put my trust in him.”[i]

And again he says,

“Here am I, and the children God has given me.”[j]

14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 16 For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. 17 For this reason he had to be made like them,[k] fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. 18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

To clarify the necessity of Jesus using the bible is circular logic which is a logical fallacy.

Jesus's own words, and here is what he has to say to us:

John 12: 44-50

He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me.

45. And he that sees me, sees him that sent me. 46. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me should not abide in darkness. 47. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 47. He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him; the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.48. For I have not spoken of myself, but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, that I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting; whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

God obviously can't forgive anyone until they've spilled innocent blood to atone for their sins. I don't think the bible ever explains how such a horrible sin makes up for other sins. I guess they kinda cancel eachother out. #GodMath

Isaiah 53 Surely He has borne our griefs

And carried our sorrows;

Yet we esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten by God, and afflicted.

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray;

We have turned, every one, to his own way;

And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Romans 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all[h] who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Jesus was necessary so that the human race could be reconciled back to God--since it was severed in the book of:

Genesis 3V15:"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

This verse has long been recognized as the first messianic prophecy of the Bible.

Thus, it also contains the first glimpse of the gospel (proto evangelism).

It reveals three essential truths:

(1) that Satan is the enemy of the human race, explaining why God put "enmity" [related to the word 'enemy'] "between thee [Satan] and the woman;"

(2)that He would place a spiritual barrier between "thy seed" [ Satan's people] and 'her seed' (God's people); and

(3) that the representative seed of the woman:

(i.e., a human being: Christ) would deliver the deathblow to Satan, but in so doing would be bruised Himself.

"It" [or "He,"] "shall bruise (lit., "crush"] thy head, but thou shalt bruise his heel" refers to Christ on the cross, which led to the eventual crushing of Satan and his kingdom.

I hope this is simple enough for you, prayerfully read this in Genesis and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you--then you can explain it to someone, for them to even get a small idea of why Jesus had to come.

Jesus came since He was fulfilling a promise by God in Genesis 3V15 and by His Coming he broke the curse that separated God from man--and reconciled man back to God once and for all -- since that first curse thousands of years ago.

Jesus was perfect and since He was sent by God--the only Cure for the Curse put on mankind, through Adam and Eve disobedience to God in the Garden of Eden, and Jesus became the second Spiritual Adam and redeemed the human race from the curse of Adam and Eve and Original sin of Adam and Eve, which was imputed or put upon the whole of Adams fallen race the human beings.

So you could ask about Him -- although it's not yet clear why you were necessary.

Paul lays it all out in the book of Romans.

Check it out in The Message, its much easier to understand.

https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksea...