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Bible Question:
God sent Jesus to earth so that He would be sacrificed in our
place - redeeming us. But God sent Jesus knowing that he
would die and our sins could be taken away. Why bother? Why
didn't He just take them away without sacrificing His son?
He is God. Secondly, why did God have this sudden turn around
from punishing mankind due to Adam and Eve and save everyone?
Thirdly, the covenant with Abraham states that through him
all the peoples of the earth will be blessed. This says that
God will like the people, but they still will not have eternal
life? So many holes. Please help me. When does the Bible
begin to speak about actual salvation? And why God's sudden
change of mind?
Bible Answer:
Your questions imply that God had freedom of choice, and that
God changes.
1st Question.
Why did God send His son to die for the people of the world?
Why bother? Why didn't He just take them away without sacrificing
His son? He is God. The answer requires that we first understand
that God is a holy person.
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. . . because it is written, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY,
FOR I AM HOLY.” (NASB) 1 Peter 1:16
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We can read the words, but it is impossible for us to completely
understand an absolutely holy person. Yes, God has emotions
and a will, but He is not like us.
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. . . You thought that I was just like you . . .(NASB)
Ps. 50:21
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He is not polluted by sin. He is one who does not violate any
moral standards. He has told us that anyone who sins will
die.
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. . . through one man sin entered into the world . .
. so death spread to all men, because all sinned .
. .(NASB) Rom. 5:12
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But we are also told that because God loves us He decided to
rescue us by having Jesus come and die for us. This next
verse tells us that we are helpless, and so God devised a
plan to rescue us.
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For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ
died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a
righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone
would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own
love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. . . . (NASB) Rom. 5:6-7
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The message of Hebrews 10 is that a perfectly holy person,
Jesus Christ, had to die in order to take away our sins.
Why did He do this? Apparently, God had no choice. No other
person is morally perfect. No one else could take the punishment
for our sin.
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And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins;
and in Him there is no sin. (NASB) 1 John 3:5
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