Why did Jesus have to die for our sins? I can't comprehend this concept; it doesn't make sense?

The idea is more easily understood than we often realize. Here it is.

God created mankind without sin. When Adam sinned, he imparted sin to the entire human race. Because we are sinful by default, we are unqualified to pay the penalty for our own sin.

Jesus had to come to earth and live as a sinless man to be qualified to pay the penalty for the sin of all mankind. Also, s life as a human qualifies him to be the judge of all mankind when the course of history has come to an end.

Greetings, To answer the question is to speak about a sunset or about mercy and love which one can not see but must be found and felt for ones self. But here is my feeble try. In Romans (new testament) states that God so loved the world, that says it all , have you ever seen someone you loved hurting and you wanted to take their place or wipe a way a tear for someone you loved .

That is the love of God . And that is the why. May all your dreams come true and many blessings on your life...... your new found friend Sharon e Dix.

From a Christian point of view and the way I was raised, Jesus died for our sins because He loves us. Although I do agree that it is difficult to comprehend, but since no one was qualified to do such a thing, Jesus offered s life to save us from our transgressions. He is not asking us to understand, but to accept the fact that He loves us and died for us, so that we might be saved.

Hope this helps! :-).

You would first have to understand that Jesus's birth, death and resurrection were predicted by God/Jesus hundreds of years before they took place. This in and of itself is a sign that Jesus was and is exactly who he says he is.

The books of the Torah bare testimony of Jesus's person.

I would encourage you to look up sources within the bible that talked about the nature of the messiah; what he would do when he arrived.

This will give you a good foundation to understand Jesus's/Gods mission here on earth.

We live in a fallen world....clue number one.

If you were an Old Testament Jew and believed that you had to sacrifice an animal to re-establish your relationship with your God whenever you broke then you could more easily accept that a human sacrifice could be sufficient to pardon you from all of your sins forever. If you never believed in the whole sacrifice to atone for sins thing, then it won't have much meaning to you. The Truth is the only authority.

He understood the god like anything so he prayed behalf of us all having so many sins that time, and requested the GOD to wipe out all the sins in this world.

The masses have been told that the almighty and perfect creator created man and gave him free will to choose. God who can anticipate everything also willed that man to be imperfect. Then when man makes a free choice due to his imperfection, the almighty, all knowing and perfect God gets offended.

Then God, the perfect creator, almighty one, needs the help the help of another person, an innocent man to die cruelly to save God's own creation, mankind. This other person, Jesus who is totally innocent has to pay a very high price to solve the problem caused by God's own creation.

And then even after the spilling the innocent blood of Jesus, the problem is still not fixed. Man's free choice and imperfection all permitted by God, is still a problem. Look at the world today.

God's solution to save mankind was not effective in solving the problem. Jesus was incapable from saving God's own creation. Look at the world today!

Man is still behaving exactly what God created him to be. That is man is imperfect.

It is normal for industrial manufacturing processes to have a success rate of 97%. These processes are designed and worked by humans. If God's solution is not working than it seems we better teach God how to create things.

Look at the world he created and his success rate on humans seem to 20% at best. And he is still keeps on creating human that need to be saved! God's solution and the suffering of Jesus is less effective than what man can achieve.

Or is there a better explanation then what the masses are told. I believe something else is going on here.

I'm going to go ahead and disagree with the religious side here...

1) if God created the garden and knew everything would happen, it's partially his fault Adam ate the apple. It's like leaving meat on the floor and getting mad at your dog for eating it. It's partially God's fault, and no one seems to discuss this.

2) There is absolutely no reason to hold people accountable for the actions of their father or grandfather. If I didn't do it, I don't get in trouble. We don't operate our prison system this way because it's immoral.

God wouldn't do that to anyone either.

3) Some guy dying 2000 years ago doesn't do anything. The only reason I can be forgiven for wrongdoing is if I acknowledge the problem and stop. That's it.

The whole premise of "he died for our sins" makes absolutely no sense at all.

Sorry, but that's how it is, including how we are as a society.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.