A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part nine

 Betty: So how did this Savior accomplish His salvation of the human race?

The Theologian: God revealed in the prophecies of the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament that He would become a perfect man who would take the sins and the evil of the whole human race on Himself on a cross and thereby purge all sins which cause spiritual death and spiritual death itself from all humanity. When Jesus said that He came "to save the world," He meant exactly that which He said. God cannot fail to do that which He says He will do. Read John 12:47. This perfect man called Jesus would shed His blood and water on the cross to purge all sins and evil from all humans who would believe in His power to save them by His grace while they were still alive in the flesh. God saved Adam and Eve by His grace when He shed the blood of an animal to symbolize the coming Savior and clothed them with its coat to symbolize this type of salvation. Read Genesis 3:21, Matthew 26:28, and John 5:24.

Betty: So how did this Savior save the rest of humanity?

After bearing the sins and evil of all humanity on the cross, this Savior voluntarily gave up His life and physically died. He died as if He would be permanently dead and forever separated from God's Love. But He commended His Spirit to His Father when He died. Read Luke 23:46. Jesus' Spirit descended into the regions of death carrying with Him the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus bore on the cross. The regions of death are in the ground that God cursed. Because the Spirit of Christ can only be perfect and Holy, and therefore, does not deserve to be in the regions of death, then the Holy Spirit was able to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity. The Holy Spirit proved that He left all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity behind in the regions of death when the Spirit reanimated the perfect, dead body of the Savior in His grave and resurrected this immaculate Savior from the dead victorious over all sins and evil. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized the salvation of the rest of humanity who did not get saved by grace. Read Genesis 8:20-21, Psalm 16:9-10, Acts 2:26-27, and Revelation 1:17-18. When Jesus proclaimed His victory over all the regions of death, He could not have meant that He was only partially victorious. Christ had to be absolutely victorious over all sin and evil.

Betty: But if this Savior bore all of the sins and evil of all humanity on a cross in order to remove it all from humanity, how was He able to bear it? How was He able to rise immaculate from the dead?

The Theologian: The Holy Spirit created a human body in the womb of a virgin named Mary. This means this human could not sin. This baby did not inherit the spiritual death which causes sin from Adam. The Holy Spirit infused every cell of this perfect human with God's Spirit, and therefore, this perfect human became both God and man at the same time. Read John 3:34. This Jesus, who has forever been with His Father, has always had complete power over all sin and evil, but He had to prove it because doubt had entered His creations after Lucifer's rebellion. Read John 20:24-29. The Devil desires to hold the entire human race in permanent death because they are all infected with spiritual death and guilty of sins which he knows that a Holy God can never accept to be in His creations. Had the Devil succeeded in his desire, he would have proven that God's Love for the living humans that He created in His image could not be Almighty, and such an event would demonstrate a weakness in God that the Devil could learn to exploit in order to find a way to murder God and take His place. Read Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:26-38, John 3:34, and John 8:44. God engenders faith by the elimination of doubt. Because God creates every human in His image, He puts a latent faith into their souls and spirits. Read Romans 12:3.

Betty: So this Savior, who was and is God in human form, was named Jesus. How did He bear all of the sins and spiritual deaths of all humans on the cross?

The Theologian: Jesus was a completely innocent human. Innocence is a part of God's Almighty Power. Because Jesus possessed an Almighty Innocence, sin and evil could not overpower Him. The Devil happens to be so totally evil that he believes that innocence is weak and can always be ruined, like he ruined Eve. The Devil thought that Jesus would not be able to bear the enormous weight of all of the sins and spiritual deaths of all humans on the cross. The Devil believed that Jesus would be forced to succumb to evil and sin, and that event would give the Devil the right to hold His Spirit in Hell and His body in the grave forever, and thus he would succeed in his desire to murder God. The Devil's attitude accounts for the fact that evil people today always consider good and innocent people to be stupid and easily exploited. Read Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13.