Compare And Contrast Grace And Mercy

After that, the author explained that the second reason why Jesus’ death matters, is due to its ability to restore our relationship with God, thereby, preventing our spiritual death. He explained that Christ’s death on the cross is what bridged the gap created as a result of our sins. And, although we do good deeds, attend church, and obey God’s law; none of these can repair the broken relationship with

When God gave us the consequences for straying from the holiness, He himself created a dilemma. We call this dilemma the Divine Dilemma. This is the Divine Dilemma: “The law of death, which followed from the Transgression, prevailed upon us, and from it there was no escape. The thing that was happening was in truth both monstrous and unfitting. It would, of course, have been unthinkable that God should go back upon His word and that man, having transgressed, should not die; but it was equally monstrous that beings which once had shared the nature of the Word should perish and turn back again into non-existence through corruption” (Athanasius 6).

Christian worldview’s response to the problem of evil and suffering is a reality because they are born into a broken world in the result of the fall (Hiles & Smith, 2014). Christians understand that “suffering increases our compassion and equips us to comfort others who suffer” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4). Also, Christians understand that Jesus died for humanity to gain eternal life. If people reject the purifying death of Jesus, then they will suffer the consequences of God’ rebellion (Gockel, 2009). This means that God will not save them, nor force them to believe in Him; in which they will be condemning themselves to suffer.

In the same way Jesus was a sacrifice, only his death did not just take away the sins of a few people but the sins of the whole world. This means that Jesus was punished for all the things that people have done wrong so that they could receive forgiveness from God, we must all be eternally grateful for this. We are now put right with God by the sacrificial death of his son and we are now saved from God's anger!! We must also remember that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son and we must again be eternally grateful! Jesus died: 1.To save humans from the consequences of sin.

Bible Project Salvation What is Justification? Justification is the work of God where the moral rightness of Jesus is given to the sinner, so the sinner is declared by God as being morally right under the Law. This moral rightness is not earned or kept by any effort of the saved. Justification is an immediate event with the result being never-ending life. It is based completely and only upon Jesus' sacrifice on the cross ("and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to moral rightness; for by His wounds you were healed.")

The huge nature of Jesus’ suffering is displayed in the passage when the soldiers mock Jesus. [2] Jesus had a choice whether or not to suffer and die, and chose to, to save us. He suffered for us to make us good enough for heaven, and could have stopped at any time, but didn’t. Jesus doesn’t have to pay the price for his sins as he has none, and Christians believe that in his willingness to suffer and die on their behalf, Jesus set an example, which they themselves should be prepared to follow. In the Gospel Jesus says, “If anyone would come after me…he must deny self and take up his cross and follow me.”[3] Jesus’ death was not a sign of his failure, but the climax of his ministry.

With this Original Sin, corruption entered humanity never to leave until God the Father imposed His Word onto us so that we could be saved. This damaging corruption blinded us from seeing God in His own creation and in His own people. Never the less, God refused to abandon His people in a time of such great need for salvation. He chose to save them, but how? How could he destroy death and pay the debt of all humanity while remaining God?

One need be justified in the presence of God because that makes one to be a devout Christian willing to serve God forever. However, Christ death has made a difference. Through reflecting Christ’s death, Paul is “stressing the vicarious character of that death” such as the nature of death (Fitzmyer 399). Furthermore Paul is explaining that Christ died for human sinfulness because he is trying to reflect on our weakness and sins calling it as “condition of the unjustified”. However, if we put trust in God, then we could overcome those weaknesses because God does not make people unhappy.

With the expectation that we are righteous in a fallen world it is easy to assume that persona. However, this is filled with pitfalls because we are fallen as well. The only difference between Christians and the world is that Christians have accepted Gods grace and mercy. “Christians agree that sin is terrible, and it will destroy their Christian testimony. “He who covers his sins will not prosper” (Prov.

Jesus Himself said in John 19:11, while talking to Pilate before His crucifixion, “Thou couldest have no powe... ... middle of paper ... ...e is also a perfect, just, and holy God who cannot even look on sin. He has the power to forgive, but the punishment for crime still must be carried out. A great example of this was the thief on the cross next to Christ. In his last hours on this earth he accepted Christ as his Savior, but God did not take him off the cross because he believed. No, he still had to bear the punishment for the crimes he had committed.