Friday, April 15, 2011

On the Crucifixion

The Crucifixion was God by sending His Son Jesus Christ to die as a substitutionary Atonement on behalf of Sinners. Because Adam the first representive first sinned and us being in him in some mysterious way therefore we also have recieved his guilt. Paul draws this conclusion out in 1 Corinthians 5 with the analogy of the bread. Therefore because Adam sinned none of us have a relationship with God. Death entered the world and spread to all of humanity (Romans 5:12-14). Not only is all of humanity found guilty for surely none of us are born into the world Knowing God, but also through all of our personal sinning (Romans 1:18-2:29) we fall short of the glory of God. Therefore it was completely necessary for the Divine Son of God to come in the flesh. For the blood of goats and bulls were not able to take away sins on behalf of man for they are not human, and also it was necessary because Jesus is also the second person of the Holy Trinity - He is God and so was able to fulfill all righteousness and also take upon Himself the sins of the whole world. Furthermore it was necessary for the Divine Son of God to come and atone for Sins because all of our transgressions are against ultimately an eternal, infinite, Holy God, therefore our sins require a payment that is eternal, infinite, and Holy. Jonathan Edwards speaks well on this issue in His sermon on Ephesians 3.

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