Why did God Need To Die to Save People?

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Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Why would

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God need to die in order to save people for himself?

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Now this argument that we hear from people is one that is lacking an understanding of how wicked sin actually is and the consequence that sin actually brings.

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The fact that God has to die should tell us that sin is such a wicked thing and so evil that this is the extreme that ends up happening, that God himself is the only sacrifice that could be made.

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Now why is that? Well, because when we sin against an infinitely holy God, it carries with it an infinite consequence, and that consequence requires an infinite amount of time.

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It's forever, and you and I being temporal beings would have to pay it forever, and therefore there's no other human being that could pay it for us.

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No one would be able to do that other than an infinite being. So the fact that Jesus Christ is

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God, being eternal, his death once in time counts for all of eternity.

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And that's why when we see that Christ dying on that cross is the only payment we can have for sin, because he is an eternal being.

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This is one of the things that makes Christianity unique, because other religions are based on a system of teaching, but Christianity is based on an act of Jesus Christ, that he died in our place, because he is the eternal being.

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This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.

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