Why Did Jesus Die?

One reason why Jesus died was to forgive sins. To forgive whose sins...the sins of the world.

"For God so loved the world" ...(John 3:16)

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29)

World in the verses above does not mean the round ball of dirt and rock that make up the earth, for that is inanimate therefore, it must mean the people of the world.

Therefore, God forgave sinners...every sinner on earth has already been forgiven...their sins are no longer being recorded against them! WOW, such is the Grace of God!

All this is God's doing: who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. (2 Cor 5:18-19)

I can hear the oh's and aw's of the religious establishment followed by their charge of "he is teaching heresy." 

People are sinners, but God is neither counting or remembering their sins. You ask; "How can you teach such blasphemy, Sinners aren’t saved!" Did I say they were? 

I said they are forgiven: When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins… (Col 2:13)

When were people forgiven? When they were dead in trespasses and sin! They were forgiven before any repentance, before any confession, before being born again. The gospel teaches that people were forgiven before they were even born. How can that be, we didn’t do anything to gain His forgiveness. True! That’s the beauty of God's grace.

Does God need man's permission to do anything that He wants to do? Of course not. Therefore Why do the religious world believe He needs people's permission to forgive people's sins. Now if you do not accept the forgiveness He has provided for you...that is your doing, not His.

Therefore, don't believe the bad news and fear-mongering of the most of the religious establishment that God hates you because of your sins. God's forgiveness is wholly and solely based on Jesus' finished work on the cross. Those who maintain that we must do the do's of religion to be forgiven are saying that Jesus' work on the cross wasn't finished and now we have to complete His work..that is a lie of the devil. This is not the good news of the gospel...it is the bad news of religion and it’s not in the Bible. Jesus didn’t die fora few sins He died for all sin. His sacrifice for the sin of the world was once and for all and was perfectly perfect and completely complete and finishingly finished in every respect.

He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. (1 John 2:2)