More on what the New Testament says are the reasons Jesus died:
To give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins
Acts 5:30-31 (ESV)
The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. [31] God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
To purchase the church of God
Acts 20:28 (ESV)
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
To show light to Jew and Gentile
Acts 26:22-23 (ESV)
To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”
To demonstrate God’s righteousness
Romans 3:25 (ESV)
whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
To be a propitiation for the sins that God passed over before Christ came
Romans 3:25 (ESV)
whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
so that God might be just and the justifier of those who express faith in Christ
Romans 3:26 (ESV)
It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
To demonstrate His love toward us
Romans 5:8 (ESV)
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
To reconcile His enemies to God
Romans 5:10 (ESV)
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
To condemn sin in the flesh
Romans 8:3 (ESV)
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
That He might be Lord of the living and the dead
Romans 14:9 (ESV)
For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
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