11 Sep '07 07:05>
Originally posted by knightmeisterSo sin / badness / evil is a substance of some sort that is transferable? You kill someone, you are then tainted with evil, Jesus then takes that taint and you become clean, as a result of taking that taint Jesus suffers? I am sort of seeing what you are saying but I honestly cant see how sin can be a substance.
So what the cross does is enable God to swap our sin with his righteousness. Our sin then gets placed on christ on the cross who in turn gives us his righteousness in exchange. So instead of us feeling the effects of our darkness christ feels it instead on the cross. He becomes a kind of massive spiritual dumping ground for all our rubbish , but of cou ...[text shortened]... g your dirty oil to the dump and getting some new oil in exchange. The purpose is the exchange.
When someone kills someone, the only reason we label that person evil - sinful etc is because 1) their past contains a sinful act and 2) they have proved that they are capable of sinful acts and thus may repeat the offense. But I fail to see that the person actually has some property in them called 'evil taint' and having it transferable just doesn't make sense to me. If I have evil tendencies then why not simply remove them? Why not simply prevent me from acting on them? Why must Jesus suffer in order for my tendencies to change? It just doesn't make any sense to me.