Any other religion would have been sufficient without Christ and the Cross! As a postscript I suggest that you not attempt to use the much abused “ut unum sint” (“that they may be one”) citation from Holy Scripture. There are too many citations to the contrary. Christ was clearly ...
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Here is the...
In a very real sense when Christ died on the cross two millennia ago I died there, too -- and so did you. His death is my death, since I am united to him. Christ died; I died. We do know this for sure: We have been united with Christ at a very deep level. We are "in Ch...
By The Gospel of Jesus Christ in Scripture & Christian Videos "Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand...
When He died on the cross (1 Peter 2:24), He shed His blood to forgive man’s sins (Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:22). Paul stated “that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3; Scriptures fulfilled: Isaiah 53:5–6OTP). In addition, Jesus Christ...
It is very important to have faith in Jesus Christ and the fact that He died on the cross for us and the remission of our sins, so that we may be saved and have everlasting life with Him. And whether we are new Christians or mature Christians, we need to read the Bible everyday, ...
The book of Hebrews in the bible tells us in chapters 9 and 10 that Christ’s self-sacrifice, willfully accepting the suffering of crucifixion and earthly death on the cross, is so great that it provides salvation “once for all”:
“My grandfather … made a commitment never to preach again without making the Gospel as complete and clear as possible, centering on Christ’s sacrificial death and resurrection.” Given that, it’s interesting how often the cross appears in Scripture, not just during Christ’s crucifixion, but...
For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.New Living TranslationChrist died and rose again for this very purpose—to be Lord both of the living and of the dead.English Standard VersionFor to this end Christ died...
The cross is the heart of the gospel. It makes the gospel good news: Christ died for us. He has stood in our place before God’s judgment seat. He has borne our sins. God has done something on the cross we could never do for ourselves. But God does something to us as well...