Sometimes my mind seeks complicated answers to obvious questions. This is one of those. I’ve known almost all of my life why Jesus died. Every kid worth his squirmy energy, if he went to church or heard some TV preaching, could tell you in his own words what the Apostle Paul succinctly stated, “Christ died for our sins,” (1 Corinthians 15:3). But, like I said, sometimes, when a creak catches my attention, my mind drifts, and I think harder about simple subjects.
When someone offends me, I often simply forgive the person. Notice I didn’t say “always,” but I’m working on that. That leads to the natural question, though: Why can’t God do that? Are people better than him? Am I? Jesus' death is the center of Christian faith, so we ought to know a little about why it happened, and that answer ought to have a little more teeth than a trite (but true), "He died to forgive sins." Why Jesus? Why death?
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