What's It to Me?

Scripture shows that there is a God who created us and therefore owns us. He has set a perfect moral standard of which we fall short (Romans 3:23).

He is perfectly just, so must punish transgressions. Since our transgressions offend His infinite holiness, the punishment must also be infinite.

Either we must suffer such punishment, or else a Substitute must endure it in our place (Isaiah 53).

The Substitute must be fully human to substitute for humanity (Hebrews 2:14), and must be fully Divine to endure God’s infinite wrath (Isaiah 53:10).

To be the mediator between God and Man, Jesus must be both. 1 Timothy states:
“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”.

We cannot earn salvation by any deeds we do ((Romans 3:24, 4:2, Ephesians 2:8-9).

These verses teach that justification, the declaration of legal innocence before God, is a gift.

It takes place the moment one has faith in Christ (Romans 5:1). 

From an article Should We Trust The Bible by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation magazine Vol.33 No.1 2011.

Posted 27Apr11