why Jesus came to earth? why He came in a specific time? Why there is the New and the Old Testaments? Does God forgive people through Jesus? I think the Bible says that God knows everything, why He send Jesus in that period of time? Was it necessary to send Jesus? Why the New Testament came later? What about the people who lived in the Old Testament? How will they be judged?
Hello Kostilaks, here are a few verses/passages that should help answer some of your questions. If you have additional questions, please don't hesitate to ask them.
Matthew 1
21 She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.
1 Timothy 1
15 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.
Galatians 4
4 When the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
John 14
6 Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."
Acts of the Apostles 4
12 There is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.
Hebrews 9
22 All things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Hebrews 10
4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Romans 5
8 God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Romans 2
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
14 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law,
15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.
16 This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
Romans 3
23 All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed.*
26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
The "news" from God is this, a person needs to be both innocent and righteous to stand in His presence.
The "bad" news is this,
no one is (innocent or righteous), as the OT Law of Moses, which all have failed to obey, clearly demonstrates for us.
The "Good News" is this, God sent His Son here to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves/to save us from our sins
1. by living a perfectly righteous life before His Father on our behalf (the life that we were supposed to live) &
2. by dying in our place on the Cross to atone/pay the price for our sins & reconcile us to God in this life , and to satisfy the wrath of His Father against us in the age to come.
Therefore, Jesus is our 'only' innocence, our 'only' righteousness, and the 'only' atonement and satisfaction for our sins. So all are saved by God's mercy and grace, through faith in Jesus, and in all that He did for us (merited for us), as well by belief/trust that God will save us in this gracious manner alone.
*God "
passed over" (withheld the judgement of) the sins previously committed by His OT elect/saints, until the one Sacrifice that could actually atone for their sins was finally made available to them by Jesus.
There is much more that the Bible has to say about all of this, and there is much more than I can say in the way of explanation as well, but this has already become a long post, so I will stop here for now.
Questions?
--David
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf,
so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:21
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