Why did God Need To Die to Save People?

The Infinite Consequence of Sin and the Need for an Infinite Sacrifice

Why would God need to die in order to save people for himself? 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.

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. 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. 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.

No one would be able to do that other than an infinite being. So the fact that Jesus Christ is God, being eternal, his death once in time counts for all of eternity. 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.

Why Christianity Is Unique Among Religions

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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