{"id":2622,"date":"2007-04-25T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2007\/04\/the-atonement-if-jesus-was-not-a-sinner-why-did-he-die\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:47:06","slug":"atonement-if-jesus-was-not-sinner-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2007\/04\/atonement-if-jesus-was-not-sinner-why\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atonement – If Jesus Was Not a Sinner, Why Did He Die?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Last week we looked at \u201cThe Terrible Problem of Sin<\/a>.\u201d It is very important that we do this \u2014 that we spend time thinking about sin and what sin has caused to happen in our world. The Bible is very clear \u2014 before sin there was no death; death was foretold as being the result of sin, and it is stated that because of sin we all die.<\/p>\n

Any adequate understanding of the atonement has to explain why it was that Jesus had to die. It is surely something every Christian will agree on \u2014 that Jesus was not Himself a sinner. If we accept that death is not the natural end of life, that it was not part of God\u2019s design, and that it is, instead, a just penalty for sin, it seems to me we have almost proved the case for Penal Substitutionary Atonement before we\u2019ve barely begun. Jesus died, although He didn\u2019t deserve to die, so we who did deserve to die could be saved from death.<\/p>\n

It is vital that we have a firm biblical basis for even the most basic of our doctrinal beliefs. Here are some scriptures that show us that Jesus was not a sinner like us. Because He was not a sinner, I hope we can all agree that He didn\u2019t deserve to die!<\/p>\n