Why is Jesus' death is an important example for christians today?

Answer 1

The death of Jesus on the cross was not just for the forgiveness of sins. By being baptized a person becomes a part of Christ himself, thereby sharing in his death, burial, and resurection. By sharing in his death a person is separated from sin because once a person dies sin is no longer able to remain attached to that person. It is as paul writes about marriage in the book of Romans. Once a husband dies the wife is free of the connection to her husband, who she was once one flesh with. In the same way a person is free from the law, which is the power of sin, and is also freed from sin itself. Sin is like a virus. A virus has no DNA of its own. It needs a live host to duplicate. It enter a living cell, attatches itself to the DNA in that cell, then when the cell divides through natural processes, the virus is also duplicated. When the cell dies the virus can no longer survive in that cell. Jesus took the sin of all men into his own body, then died thereby leaving sin completely without a living host, just like the virus example. When He rose from the dead, he no longer had sin. That is why without becoming a part of Chris through believing he is the savior, and being baptized, a person can never be freed from sin once and for all. The Bible says it is appointed to each man to die once and then the judgment. You can either die with Christ through faith and also share in his resurection, freed from sin at last, or you can die without Christ and go before the judgment seat of God with all your sins completely and permanently attached to you for all time. The Bible says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. Seems like a pretty simple choice doesn't it?

Answer 2

The death Jesus is important and crucial for Salvation to all people. When, Jesus died giving His Life Blood for the remission of all sins; He conquered death's dominion of all of humanity and established Eternal Life for all who accept Him as their "personal" Savior.

Answer 3

It is this sacrifice for our sins that saves us. The once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, next to the Resurrection, is the most important event in salvation history.

Another Answer:

Jesus'propitiatory sacrifice provided the ransom sacrifice to cover what Adam lost. Without his death, we would never have a hope for everlasting life.

Answer 4

The Bible says everybody is born spiritually dead. Another way of saying this is people don't have a relationship with/know God. This is because the first man and woman did not obey God and so their relationship with God - the creator and sustainer of life - was broken. This is sin. Throughout the history of mankind - as told in the Bible - the way for a person to restore their relationship with God is to acknowledge their relationship with God is broken and to offer a sacrifice.

In the early history of mankind this is what people did. God chose the nation of Israel to be His representatives on earth. Israel was supposed to show the other nations what a relationship with God is like. But Israel turned from God and His ways and followed other gods.

So God came to earth as a man - Jesus - and died as the 'lamb of God', a sacrifice for the sin of all who believe. If a person believes this, the Bible says God forgives that person and gives them eternal life.

This is impportant to Christians because this is the way a person can have a relationship with God and escape God's judgment when God judges all of mankind.

Answer 5

Few reasons

• Jesus died so that we may have eternal life
• Jesus showed that He had victory over sin and death