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  1. Feb 14, 2024 · Jesus died on the cross as our substitute to pay for our sins and reconcile us with God. Learn how the Bible explains this concept of substitutionary atonement and why it is necessary for our salvation.

  2. Apr 10, 2020 · To get to the heart of the question of why Jesus died, we have to think from God’s point of view. Theologically, from God’s perspective, we may mention two main reasons. 1. Jesus Died to Bring Us Near to God. Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. (1 Pet. 3:18)

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  3. Aug 28, 2024 · Evidence affirms that the sinless Jesus bled and died on a cross. Most importantly, the Bible explains why Jesus’ death and resurrection provide the only entrance to heaven. Why did Jesus have to die? — The punishment for sin is death. God created earth and man perfect. But when Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s commands, He had to punish them.

  4. by BibleProject Team – Mar 21, 2023. If you ask five people, “Why did Jesus die on the cross?” you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. For some, it’s about a sacrifice related to human sin and God’s wrath, mercy, and forgiveness. For others, the focus might be on a cosmic victory, where Jesus’ death in some way defeats death ...

    • God Has to Punish Sin. God is holy. Holy means unique and set apart. God is unlike everything else in his creation, because he’s the Creator (Isaiah 45:18).
    • God Promised to Rescue Us from Our Sin. Because we are all sinners, we not only are awaiting God’s wrath, but are also, at present, his enemies. Our sin nature produces a combative spirit against God.
    • Blood Must Be Shed for Sin to Be Forgiven. In the Old Testament, God gave his people his law, a sacrificial system, and a temple, out of his love, to provide a picture of what his people needed in order to approach him.
    • Someone Has to Die to Pay the Penalty for Sin. Since the very beginning, the only the shedding of blood can atone for sin. For “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins” (Hebrews 9:22 NIV).
  5. Mar 30, 2021 · He cannot even look upon evil.”. Theologian John Piper wrote in 50 Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die, “ [Our sin] makes us guilty before God so that we are under His just condemnation and it makes us ugly in our behavior so that we disfigure the image of God we were meant to display. It damns us with guilt and it enslaves us to lovelessness.

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  7. Philippians 2:8. It was as a man that Jesus had to learn obedience, because, being a man, He had His own self-will, or sin in the flesh, and was tempted. There He learned to deny Himself, “take up His cross daily” and put that sin to death. The result was that He never sinned and was without sin. (Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 5:7-8 ...