6. “Jesus died for all our sins”
The prevalent belief is that the Lord Jesus became man for the
sole purpose of dying for our sins and that with this death He took upon
Himself our sins vicariously.
This belief however flies in the face of God’s justice, love
and purity! No creature can heap his iniquities on the Holy One sent forth by
God!
Over many centuries, our materialistic way of living had
estranged us from God. Our religious teachings had also become materialistic
which made it impossible to approach God through our religions. Man was in need
of the Truth, the Word of salvation. Jesus came to this earth therefore, with
the Sacred Mission of showing mankind the Way back to God! It was this Word which could be the saving
grace for mankind. We were meant to listen to the Word of God brought by Jesus,
reflect upon its truth and change our lives for the better. It is only this
change for the better through putting the teaching of Christ into practice that
brings salvation for men.
Meanwhile, the priests who already thought they were masters
of the people of Israel felt their authority and their hold on the people disappearing
and in self-defense used the earthly power at their disposal to bring the
slanders and persecution which Jesus had to endure, resulting eventually in the
crucifixion.
Jesus stood His grounds on the assertion that He is the Son of
God and faced death so that His Word might be preserved for mankind. His death
therefore was nothing more than the result of tyranny by those who envied Him
and who as a result used the earthly power as their disposal to kill Him.
Indeed, His utterances contradicts what is conventionally
believed. Why would Jesus have said the following if His death was a necessary
sacrifice to take our sins away?
1. He prayed: “Father forgive them
for they know not what they do!”
2. Jesus reportedly used a Rabbinical
phrase to the effect that it would have been better if His betrayer had not
been born!
3. This was also reported: "Daughters
of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.”
4. While addressing Pilate He was
quoted to have said: “…the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”
All these translates to the fact that all who had a hand in slaying
Jesus were no priests carrying out a sacrifice to God but just cold-blooded murderers
whose actions are an outrage against The Most High!
The word of the Lord remains forever true: "Whatever a
man sows that shall he reap". This means that each one of us would have to
atone for our sins ourselves! Only now it is easier for us to do so because
with the Word of Jesus we know exactly how to go about it. The way to
forgiveness has been and will forever remain: obedience to the Holy Word of God
which is the same as His Laws! Therefore obedience to the Word of Truth proclaimed
by Jesus cleanses and can set us free from our sins.
So, we read in John 15:3: “You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.”
So, we read in John 15:3: “You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.”
Let us therefore thank the Almighty for sending His Son and
let us make the promise to accept the true Word of Jesus and live accordingly.
This is the way to our cleansing, our salvation and redemption!
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