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It’s easy for most people to comprehend God’s Love, but we have difficulty the Fact that God is Also “JUST” which simply means that God CANNOT simply ‘Forgive’ or Overlook Sin. If He Did He wouldn’t be “JUST”. So It is God’s attribute of being “Just” Prevents him from simply Forgiving or Overlooking our sin. BUT it is Because of the attribute of God’s LOVE that He sent his Only Begotten Son to Pay the Penalty for our sin.

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Blood for blood. I've heard it expressed that way. Don't really know exactly what that means, but I'm glad He did.

THE answer that the Bible gives to this question is very simple but clear and full of significance. To grasp its importance, though, we first need to see Jesus' life and death as a solution to a very difficult problem. Only then can we properly understand the enormous value of Jesus' death.

In having Jesus give his life, God was dealing with a situation that arose when Adam sinned. What a tragedy that sin was! The very first man and his wife, Eve, were perfect. The beautiful garden of Eden was their home. God gave them the meaningful work of caring for their garden home. They were to have under their loving oversight the other living creatures on earth. And as humans multiplied and filled the earth with millions of their kind, they were to expand the paradise to earth's limits. (Genesis 1:28) What a delightful and exciting work they were given! Moreover, they had the warm companionship of each other. (Genesis 2:18) They lacked nothing. Happy eternal life was before them.

It is hard to imagine how Adam or Eve could sin. But the first human pair rebelled against the very one who created them—Jehovah God. Using a serpent, the spirit creature Satan the Devil deceived Eve into disobeying Jehovah, and Adam followed her.—Genesis 3:1-6.

There was no question about what the Creator would do about Adam and Eve. He had already spelled out the consequence of disobedience, stating: "From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die." (Genesis 2:16, 17) A question of far greater magnitude now required an answer.

Mankind Faces a Difficult Problem

The original sin created a very critical problem for mankind. Adam began life as a perfect human. Therefore, his children could have enjoyed perfect everlasting life. However, Adam sinned before he fathered any children. The entire human race was still in his loins when he received the sentence: "In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." (Genesis 3:19) So when Adam sinned and began to die as God said he would, all mankind was sentenced to death along with him.

Jesus died because the penalty for any sin, even one, is death. And since no one would be willing to die after doing something wrong He did it. It's like someone telling a white lie and then being like oops, guess i have to go die now. No one would do it, no one would care. So since that is the penalty, Jesus took on the weight of the whole worlds sin, which caused him to even sweat blood! Now when we sin we dont have to die, we can ask forgiveness from the one who took on all of our sin so that when God the father looks down on us from heaven he doesnt see sin, he sees perfection :) He cant look at us except through Jesus.

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God created man perfect, without sin. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God they became sinners and pass that on to all their offspring (the entire human race) as this verse explains. (Romans 5:12) That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned—.

What Adam gave up was his perfect human life. God's perfect justice requires a like for a like so to redeem mankind from sin and death would require a perfect man to sacrifice his life as a ransom of corresponding value. That is what Jesus provided. God transferred his life as a spirit person in heaven to the womb of Mary so that Jesus was born the equal of Adam, a sinless human. He remained sinless throughout his life so when he died he could provide that corresponding ransom.

(1 Timothy 2:5-6) For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus,  who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all—[this is] what is to be witnessed to at its own particular times.

(Romans 5:18-19) So, then, as through one trespass the result to men of all sorts was condemnation, likewise also through one act of justification the result to men of all sorts is a declaring of them righteous for life. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were constituted sinners, likewise also through the obedience of the one [person] many will be constituted righteous.

All praise goes to God for his undeserved kindness in providing this ransom for us as a basis for gaining everlasting life on the paradise earth that will come under the 1000 rule of Christ Jesus.

(Psalm 37:11) But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.

(Psalm 37:29) The righteous themselves will possess the earth, And they will reside forever upon it.

(Revelation 21:4) And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

He could but He choose to die and rise. To be the ultimate and last blood sacrifice. The Israelites sacrificed animals for generations and knew the Messiah was going to save them. His sacrifice was a sign to them that He was the Messiah that YHWH promised in the OT. Jesus' death and resurrection doesn't forgive our sins but opens the gates to Heaven and allows us to be forgiven if we ask AND sin no more.

Well, yes the bible does explain it, but I'll try to put it in simple terms.

Our sins cant just "Go away" or "be forgiven". When we sin it's like... a weight. Or a really heavy rock. Each and every sin is an unbearably heavy burden put on the earth. And when Jesus died on the cross, he gathered up all the boulders that everyone had ever made, every time anyone ever sinned and ever would sin in the future, and he held them on the cross for us. Jesus never sinned once in his life, and God sent him to give us an example, and showed us his love for us by sacrificing a flawless (the ONLY perfect person that ever existed) life, so that we may be forgiven through him.

It's pretty awesome.

so he could send us to hell if we dont wear knee pads for him

Because he couldn't find Waldo.

well, you gotta die for someone's sins, right? i mean, we all die. might as well make it into something special that people will remember you for.