If God is the creator of all things why would He need to send His only son to die for us since He needs to answer to no one?

Answer 1

Before God created the heavens and earth that we know, He had already created vast kingdoms and realms beyond us. He interacted with these beings in perfect harmony. He is God of the heavenly armies and rules kingdoms, powers and dominions in the spiritual realm. Sin or death did not exist anywhere. Then,God created the heavens and the earth and everything that is in them- all living and nonliving things. He has supreme control over them as creator. He owns them. God created people and He owns them too. Sometimes we get the mistaken idea that when we are converted we surrender to God's ownership. He already owns us. At conversion we just lay down our hostility to God. Since God is creator and owner He determines our eternal destiny both while in this life and beyond.

This should bring us to fear Him because He alone is the author of Good and Bad situations. God is not the author of Evil itself but some of the things that happen to us in the process of His discipline can surely feel evil. He can exalt us or crush us as He pleases. We know that He is merciful and not malicious or capricious., so He only uses as much force as necessary to bring us back into line.

He created us so He knows our faults, frailties and evil inclinations. The Creator of anything sets the standards and rules for it i.e. game inventors. Our Creator is utterly and entirely perfect and He requires that we be perfect too. When we were first created we were perfect. After the introduction of evil by the creator of evil Satan, people were no longer perfect. We still retained some of the image and likeness of God but we lost our perfection. We fell under God's condemnation for the sin in our natures and are subject to illness, tragedy and death. We live in the land of the shadow of death. Earth is the only place in all of creation where death exists. (Death in Hell is life in torment and separation from God) God, in His mercy, could not allow us to continue on without remedy so the Creator God became one of the created, the perfect became one of the imperfect, the uncorrupt became one of the corrupt, the everliving One became subject to death to conquer death for us. God came in the form of Jesus Christ- God in the flesh, and lived without sin so that we could be enabled to live above sin. He gave His life voluntarily on the cross to break the bondage of sin. He was resurrected to break the power of death. He had to go through death and come out the other side so that we would know that He alone, as God, had the power over our greatest enemy Death.

Knowing that God, our Creator, did this for us should bring us to our knees in adoration and grattitude. We could not save ourselves and God was not obligated to rescue us. He chose to because He loved His creation. This ups the ante so much that we should tremble in fear if we spurn His great sacrifice. God died for us! We are insignificant and inconsequential in relation to Him. He has all these other kingdoms to give Him honor, adoration, praise, and to do His every desire. He does not need us for anything. But He wants us. Can you comprehend it? I can't. But I am grateful! God died so we could go to Heaven but, not everyone will go there. Some will go to Hell and God is justified to send them there. If they refuse His gift of salvation- His act of substitution- for them, His paying their penalty, His ransoming them, then there is no other remedy and they must be rejected by the God they rejected. So, How in the world can anyone know that they have not rejected Jesus offer of Salvation and know that they are not going to Hell? It is so simple. Just ask God to forgive you for breaking His rules, sinning against Him, falling short of what He requires (perfection in holiness) and tell Him you are sorry. Tell Him you believe that He is God and you want to serve Him from now on. Ask Him to come in and take over your life to guide and direct you in the proper way. He will do it. He longs to do it. He proved how much He wants to by dying on the cross in your place. Then thank Him for hearing you. You will know without a doubt if the transaction has taken place. Then connect yourself to a church somewhere so you can learn how to please the one who loved you so much.

God Doesn't to AnybodyFrom just one religious perspective: God sent his son, but it was Jesus who chose to come down and set an example to the people. He was baptized although he was perfect - to set an example so we would do the same. Jesus chose to die for us so he could suffer for our sins. If we were to pay the price of our own sins, we would have to suffer as He did, He released us from having to do that. God doesn't have to answer to anyone, but he is a loving God and wishes his children to learn, be tested and come home. He already knows who is good and faithful, and who is not, but he sends us here to test us anyway. It is just like our justice system, we wouldn't sentence someone without a fair trial? God s to HimselfGod gave His law, including the Ten Commandments, to the nation of Israel well before the birth of Jesus. This law had to be fulfilled in order for a person to be considered righteous. Nobody could obey the entire law, however, except God Himself. The law included an "escape clause" in the form of animal sacrifice, symbolizing the fact that sin results in death; the animal's death was substituted for the person's death as a form of substitutionary atonement, covering the sin of the individual.

This would be temporary, though, for God had planned all along that He would give His only begotton Son as a permanent substitution for all. He died so that we could live, if we accept that gift.

BALANCING THE SCALES: LIFE FOR LIFE God created this earth so that humans could enjoy living on it forever. He wanted the earth always to be inhabited by righteous, happy people. (Psalm 115:16; Isaiah 45:18)

Before God made man, He chose one small part of the earth and made it into a beautiful paradise. He called it the garden of Eden. It was here that he put the first man and woman, Adam and Eve. God purposed for them to have children and fill the whole earth. Gradually they would have made the entire earth into a paradise.-Genesis 1:28; 2:8, 15.

By disobeying God's command, the first man, Adam and the first woman Eve... committed what The Bible calls "sin." So God sentenced him to death. (Genesis 3:17-19) He no longer measured up to God's standards, so he was not perfect anymore. So The Creator put them out of the garden of Eden. Paradise was lost. (Genesis 3:1-6, 23) Slowly he and his wife grew old and died. Adam passed on sin to all his children. That is why we also grow old, get sick, and die. But God has not forgotten his purpose for this earth or mankind.

Jesus lived in heaven as a spirit person before he came to earth. He was God's first creation, and so he is called the "firstborn" Son of God. (Colossians 1:15; Revelation 3:14)

Jesus is the only Son that God created by himself. God Almighty used the prehuman Jesus as his "master worker" in creating all other things in heaven and on earth. (Proverbs 8:22-31; Colossians 1:16, 17) God also used him as His chief spokesman. That is why Jesus is called "the Word."-John 1:1-3; Revelation 19:13. God sent His Son to the earth by TRANSFERRING his life to the womb of Mary.

So Jesus did not have a human father. That is why he did not inherit any sin or imperfection. He is PERFECT. God sent Jesus to earth for three reasons: (1) To teach us the truth about God (John 18:37),

(2) to maintain perfect integrity, providing a model for us to follow (1 Peter 2:21), and (3) to sacrifice his life to let us free from sin and death. Why was this needed?-Matthew 20:28.

Jesus was a perfect human just like Adam. Unlike Adam, though, Jesus was perfectly obedient to God under even the greatest test. He could therefore sacrifice his perfect human life to pay for Adam's sin. This is what the Bible refers to as the "ransom." Adam's children could thus be released from condemnation to death. All who put their faith in Jesus can have their sins forgiven and receive everlasting life.-1 Timothy 2:5, 6; John 3:16; Romans 5:18, 19.

Jesus is the only one that could bring back balance for mankinds salvation...a PERFECT life to pay what Adam lost ..a PERFECT life (mankind's inheritance) Jesus died and was resurrected by God as a spirit creature, and he returned to heaven. (1 Peter 3:18) Since then, God has made him a King...King of God's Kingdom. (Luke 1:30-33) Soon Jesus will remove all wickedness and suffering from this earth.-Psalm 37:9-11; Proverbs 2:21, 22.

God sent His only son so that we may be able to go to heaven and be with Him someday. God didn't answer to anyone by sending His son. He could have kept His son and let us be corrupt and never get to see Him. God loves us all and He wants to have a relationship with us. So He sent His son so that whoever believes in Him will be able to be with Him forever and ever.

God created Adam and Eve in his image. That means perfection. He gave them the freedom of choice though. They chose sin. When we sin that separates us from God. God loves us and wants to be with us so he had to send the PERFECT sacrifice. The answer was his son. Rom 3:23-24 says {23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.}NIV His son paid the ultimate sacrifice so that our sins could be taken away.John 1:29says {29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!}NIV. That gave us the pathway to having a personal relationship with God. God is a personal God that loves us all and wants to be able to have a personal relationship with us and Jesus was the way to that relationship because something had to pay the price for our sins. John 14:6 says {6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. }NIV. He is the answer to everything.

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The answer is plainly stated in John 3:16

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The information above is not correct and I would like to clear up a few errors. God gave us the gift of death because when he first planned to create man, he planned to create human in their (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) image which meant we would be immortal humans. Genesis 1:26

26 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

27 So God created mankind in his own image,

in the image of God he created them;

male and female he created them.

Note that God said, let US, meaning that the Lord Jesus and Holy Spirit cooperated in the creative process. Jesus was not created by God, he was God. He was with God at all times.

Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23 says, "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us."

John has multiple examples of Jesus claiming to be God. Let's start though with John 1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

In Exodus when Moses questioned who God was before he was sent back to Egypt GOd identified him self in Exodus 3:13

13 Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?"

14 God said to Moses, "I am who I am.[c] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I am has sent me to you.'"

Jesus then referred to himself as I AM in John 8:57

57 "You are not yet fifty years old," they said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!"

58 "Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" 59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds. In John 10 he states that he and God are one, 9 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[c]; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one."

Jesus came to earth to communicate with man the truth about God. Unless he became a man he could not demonstrated who God is. Like an man cannot communicate with an ant, Jesus who is fully God became fully man. He lived a perfect life.

Death as stated before was a gift because as created being made in the image of God, Jesus and Holy Spirit, God intended us to be immortal but it pleased him to give us free will as he gave the angels when he created them.

The ones that rebelled will forever remain evil they cannot never be redeemed. God did not want us to end up like the angels so he had to incorporate death, rather separation from him and a physical death to keep us from being immortally evil after we inherited a sinful nature from Adam.

Jesus became us to take that death and physical separation for us so that under Christ's blood, authority and grace we are not covered and forgiven so that we can live immortally now with God in heaven as purified created beings. (1 John 1:9 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.)

So death again was a gift to keep us from living immortally as evil beings. Those who accept God gift of free simple grace of just acknowledging their inherited flawed nature will live forever first in Spirit then in their transformed bodies with God Jesus and HOly SPirit

2nd Corinthians 5 concerning our new bodies:

5 For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. 2 We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. 3 For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.[a]4 While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it's not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life.

5 God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians tells of our instant transformation into our immortal bodies

0 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed - 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last Trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."[h]

Another View:

The simple answer is found in Hebrews 2 - see these 2 verses in particular:

Hebrews 2:17-18New International Version (NIV)

17 For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.

18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.