Hello,
anaother question: What is the difference between Jesus dying for our sins and forgivness of our sins.
Jesus paid the price we should paid (death?) but by insisting on our sins we are not forgiven or how is it?
Thanks a lot
Dani
There are many different perspectives of the cross. Primarily I think that Jesus died because of our sins to reveal the love and forgiveness of God. Humanity treated God in the flesh as bad as possible and yet He loved us and expressed forgiveness, even dying to do so. And He died so as to fully embrace the human condition, to be fully human as well as fully God. And we had sold ourselves into slavery to sin; Jesus died to redeem us from slavery. We were dead in our sins; Jesus died for us so that He might give us life and raise us from death to life, conquering death by life. Of course, if He had not Risen, then the death might have been meaningless. And He could not have conquered deathy without first dying!