Why did Jesus have to Die on the Cross?

[nancyshanice]

After watching the Passion of the Christ, many were wondering, "Why do we need atonement?" "Why did Jesus have to die?" "Why crucifixion on the cross? Why the blood?" Most people would say that Jesus died on the cross so that we could be forgiven of our sins - and that is true. But that is only a part of the passion of Christ. It's actually more than forgiveness, salvation; healing ... It's deliverance from our root problem.

To confess in order to be forgiven of our sins, one sin at a time is a step but it's like putting little band-aids over a big problem. Christ alone provided for our healing, forgiveness of our sins and the solution for the root problem: our old sinful nature.

Everyone who witnessed the crucifixion on the cross understood what it meant to sacrifice a lamb to atone for their sins. The passion of the Christ revealed that Jesus came be our lamb and to shed His blood, to completely blot out any record of our sins. He voluntarily laid his torn body down on the cross not only so that we could be forgiven of our sins but also so that He could give us His righteousness as a gift. We all have tried to improve our behavior to make ourselves acceptable to God, but we still felt separated from God because of our selfishness and intent to have our own way. Man has always wanted to find his own way to God, hence the many religions.

What we really need is a new heart or to have our heart transformed. It is the cross that is the solution for our sinful old nature. We have many sinful practices today that are rooted in automatic fleshly reactions that have been set up since our childhood. We were wounded, we reacted with sinful thinking, and we excused sinful behavior and defended our right to be sinful! In spite of the passion of the Christ, many of us still do not trust God to have our best interest at heart.

Do you know why Jesus suffered, shed blood and died?

[Beaver]

I've always heard it said that the price for death is death. For Jesus to save us from eternal damnation, he had to die on the cross.

[Mercy20]

Man was created last, given the responsibility and authority to eat from the trees in the garden of Eden, except for the middle tree of knowledge of both good and evil, Satan was not asleep but in the fight with God, he lead man to a success of sinning. This broke the relationship of God and man.


Though in breakage, God thought a gain to give him a chance to his face, plan was made in heaven, Jesus was chosen to come into the world and serve a sacrifice to heal man from sin.


We see Jesus during his mission he prayed that the cup which God had given him He should take it away from him.


Was he not aware that he was to die at last or is that he realized death at a late stage, and purposely we were created, Jesus being part of God’s made creatures, was he created to serve death as his main purpose in heaven and on heart?

[Alloys]

Christ’s death brought reconciliation and restored us to our dominion. We had been created for dominion in the beginning but after sin coming to the world we lost it to the devil legally but when Christ came and died for us He restored us to our first beings.

[205victor]

He went through all these to challenges so as fulfill what was said about Him by prophets before and after His birth. Before his birth, He was prophesied to be a Messiah i.e. the savior and for Him to restore, He paid the price of human sin by His own life.

His suffering serves as an example to us that no matter any challenge we are faced with, we should seek God’s intervention to see as through has Jesus did during His time of sorrow.