Why Did God Send Jesus?

Why Did God Send Jesus to Forgive Us?  Why Was It Necessary?

There are many reasons God sent Jesus. One reason was to set an example. "For to this, you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps"(1 Peter 2:21).

Another reason was as a symbol of sorts. We read throughout the old testament that the sacrifice of animals was used as a way to be forgiven of sin, a sort of way to ask for forgiveness. Why do Christians now a day not do the same you may ask, well because Jesus was the last sacrifice. He fulfilled the law, and forgave us of all of our sins.

Relationship (Discussed below). 

The final reason was to do away with sin. Not to say sin no longer exists, but we are free of sin, as the book of Roman says, "You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness" (Romans 6:18). We see in the book of Proverbs a difference, however, "Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin” (Proverbs 20:9).  We no longer have to be slaves of sin, we can instead be slaves of the Lord. We don't have to suffer punishment because God took it for us. He brought down Jesus, the one who is sinless, the son of God.

One Now May Ask, How is it Fair For Jesus to Take Our Punishment, Isn't This Not Just?

 Let me use an analogy for you. Let's say you get caught by the police for, let's say you were driving drunk. It is the day of the hearing and neither your lawyer nor yourself comes to a way to defend your actions,  what happens then? Well, you go to jail unless you have bail. Now let's say someone pays for your bail, what happens then? Well, you go free. The situation is with Jesus and us. Jesus paid for our "bail" so we don't have to go to "jail".

How Does Jesus Dying on The Cross Demonstrate Love?

Here's an analogy. A man is about to be thrown into a pit of needles. If he was to fall into this pit, he would surely die. A woman who loves this man at the last moment pushed the man away from the pit so he didn't die, but as an effect, she died. The same goes with Jesus, except he saved us from our sin. He died so we wouldn't have to pay for our sins. The Bible teaches us humans are inherently poor, we are all sinful creatures in need of a savior. If he didn't die we would suffer for our crimes against God

Why Was It Necessary For Jesus to Die on The Cross?

The reason we need to sacrifice, is because we are transgressors of the Law, which means we're sinners.  We're born into sin. There has to be something to pay for our sins.  The wages of sin is death so something or someone has to die.  So what makes Jesus special?  He's God!  The Creator of the universe made Himself the sacrifice so He can have a relationship with us.  Us, a vile disgusting, wretched creature that does not deserve anything, but the judgment of God, and God made Himself the sacrifice for us?  That's called Grace, something we do not deserve, something we did not earn, but it was given to us.

Was Sacrifice Necessary in The Old Testament?

 "and according to the Law[torah], one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" (Hebrews 9:22).

"Each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it" (Exodus 29:36).

"He shall lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slay it in the place where they slay the burnt offering before the Lord; it is a sin offering" (Leviticus 4:24).

Hosea 6:6

"For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, 

And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."

Some will use Hosea 6:6 to claim sacrifice never was necessary, however, these people also neglect to read the next verse of the passage. Verse 7 says "But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against Me."  Notice the verse starts with the word "but".   That being means,  to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned. So to paraphrase what is being said in verses 6 and 7.  God is saying, He desires Mercy, not sacrifice, but because of the sinful ways of man, he still has to have it.

Jeremiah 17:9-10

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings."

This verse is talking about the heart being deceitful and wicked, can it ask who can know it? In verse 10, the Lord said He can, and He tries to reign over it. The word is "try", it does not say He reigns over it.  The reason he can't he can't put Himself in the presence of sin and wickedness. You can see this in the 11th verse,  "As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool" (Jeremiah 17:11). This is still a great reference to how wicked and vile mankind is, and God desires to have a relationship with us, but it is impossible because of our sinful ways.  Which opens up the door just showing how Christ's sacrifice allows us to have a relationship with God.

Ezekiel 18:4-9

"Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God."

This is talking about a man, obeying all those things and he could be just and righteous, but we all know you cannot obey all the law, it is impossible except for one man to do that (except for Jesus Christ because He was God).  The problem is a lot of people read that verse and they say if I can do this, I'm good,  but they read it in the wrong mindset.  They need to be reading it as, "I have to do all that, but I cannot ever fully receive righteousness here. "

 This is one of the reasons the Pharisees got upset with Jesus.  He reminded them, "thou shall not commit adultery."  However, they were like, "we don't commit adultery." Jesus said, "if you lust after a woman he's committed adultery." Jesus was throwing wrenches in their gears, showing them that they are lawbreakers and sinful creatures.

Deuteronomy 24:16

"The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin"

Yes, it says a father should not put to death his own son.  The thing is that it is not talking about God, because God is Not a human father, He is the Heavenly Father.  This gets people who don't understand the Trinity.  God the Father is God, God the Son is God, and  God the Holy Ghost is God, but they are all individual persons.  Jesus dying on the cross is God sacrificing himself, and to appease the Father's wrath.  God the Father did not sacrifice God the Son.  God the Son sacrificed Himself.

Why Does God Not Just Remove Sin? 

Very simply, the answer is free will. God could make us robots, emotionless, soulless, lifeless creatures. Yet he doesn't, but why? This is because he desires a relationship with his creation, not to say he needs us, but he simply does it. For a relationship, a good, loving relationship, one can't be forced, this is the reason we can choose to go to Heaven or Hell. We can accept Jesus's gift(his death on the cross for our sins), or we can deny it. We can be with God forever, or we can be separate from him forever.

A good friend helped me(James Chandler) with parts of this article, if you'd like to check them out, click here.