Blaine, your question reveals
why you don’t understand Christian reverence for the Cross. Jesus
had to die on the cross as the payment for our sins. He was the innocent,
perfect sacrificial Passover lamb, slain for the sins of the world. Just
as the Jews, who were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, had to paint the blood of the
Passover lamb on their doorposts to make the Destroyer pass by them during
judgment on that horrible night in Egypt when all the firstborn were
slain, Jesus serves as our blood sacrifice, that we might be spared death
for our slavery to sin, and deliverance from sin—just as the Jews were
delivered from Egypt. Jesus, the Firstborn, who was without sin, was the
only one qualified to be that perfect holy sacrifice for our sins. It was
His Blood, shed on the Cross (nowhere else, because THAT is where He actually
was slain), that redeems all those who take cover under it, just as the Jews
did under their doorposts. THAT is why satan HATES the mention of THE
BLOOD OF CHRIST—because THAT is what OVERCAME his evil devices and has
sealed his eternal doom, as well as the Believer’s eternal deliverance
from damnation. May God help you to understand this. Izzy
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How about to fulfill prophecy? Is that a good
reason?
I am not sure why dying had
to take place on the cross, eventually, unless it has something to do with
overcoming death--which had to be done in order to overcome the effects of
Adam's transgression and fall, wherein death was brought into the world.
