Samobosna two points I'd like to raise with you.
We as people today cannot be held responsible for Adam and Eve's mistake of eating the apple we are not born with any sins, man is born sinless but by nature is prone to sinning
Original sin does not refer to the first sin(eating an apple) but to the result of that first sin.(disobeying God) The Scriptures speak oftern of sin and death entering the world through “one man’s transgression.”
When a baby is born, we know it hasn't commited any sin...but it has been born into sin, because sin entered the world, because of Adams transgression.(sin)
God isn't holding each of us responsible for Adams sin...but...once Adam disobeyed God commandent..sin was unleased for man to be able to commit sin.
I think many, believe Christians think everyone is born a sinner...but we do not!
Before the fall of Adam only good was in the world his sin brought evil into the world. So now we have a choice to choose between good or evil..yet not one person has been born yet, besides Jesus Christ who has not sinned.
Isaiah 59:2 But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God; your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers
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If what you are saying is correct, tell me if what % of people never sin?
and why are humans prone to sinning, when God (who is perfect)made us perfect to begin with because he tells us we are made in his image?
I just wanted to clarify those two points that man is born sinless but is capable of sinning and Jesus did not pay for anything someone else did, for that would be unjust and God cannot be unjust.
Tell me why is it unjust for God to offer himself has a human sacrifice his word (Jesus) for the atonement of our sins?
Do you think God was unjust commanding the Jews to sacrifice unblembished animals for the atonement of their sins? What had the animal done wrong to be slaughtered it was a pure animal...blood is life..all the animals which where used... their blood was pure. These sacrifices to God where on going..
Jesus though, his sacrifice was a one off sacrifice...His blood, brings eternal life...his blood was pure, he was sinless...No other man on earth was or has been since.
One man brought sin into the world and one man takes our sins away.
Romans 4:25 He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.
2 Corinthians 5:21 God made the one who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the right-eousness of God.
1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
Mark 10:45
Jesus said, For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
All the Old Testament sacrifices became obsolete upon the death of Christ after Jesus died and rose, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and its temple. Since then, no Jew has been able to offer a blood sacrifice to God. God’s law permitted them to sacrifice only in the Temple and nowhere else on earth. (it will begin again though we are told by permission of the final anti-christ for a short time) but thats another topic!
Isa 53:3-12
He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because
he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
There are many scriptures telling us God was going to bring us a saviour..
The Old Testement tells us God will use a man to pay for our sins..and Jesus being sinless was the only one who could pay that price for all..
He did it willingly with love for each of us..to bring us back into followship with our Holy Father, like it was before Adam brought sin into the world.
Peace