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Did Jesus become sin on the cross?
While He Tarries Ministries
Did Jesus become sin on the cross?
Did Jesus become sin on the cross?
Now that we have covered the Blood Sacrifice and the Passover in previous articles, we can now address another false teaching that is floating around.
1. Did Jesus become sin on the cross?
a. The Theory
b. Related verses
2. Background Reference
3. The real meaning of the verses.
4. The implications of the theory.
5. Summary:
1. Did Jesus become sin on the cross?
The theory:
This theory and old heresy comes mostly from two or three verses in the bible.
Isaiah 53:6 "the Lord laid on Him the iniquity of all."
and
2 Corinthians 5:21 "He who knew no sin was made sin for us."
or perhaps they might use Galatians 3:13 "having become a curse for us"
Using these 3 verses they try to support that Jesus became sin on the cross.
This shows the hazard of taking three verses out of context and making the bible something that it does not say.
What we need to do is take what the entire bible says on the subject and discern what really is true.
If you take various verses that seem to contradict each other, then you simply don't understand that subject.
Related verses:
Let us look at some other background verses and then we will return to these three verses and see what they really mean.
1 Peter 2:22 "Who committed no sin." (Jesus was sinless.)
Hebrews 4:15 "..was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin."
Remember in prior lessons where we saw that God was manifested in the flesh as Jesus. (John 1:14)
In John 5.18 it indicates that Jesus was equal to God.
In Hebrews 1:3 it says that He had by himself purged our sins.
Are they trying to suggest that Jesus (who is God in the flesh) became sin on the cross?? Does this make sense??
That seems to be what they are implying! It gets worse, but we will get to that in a few minutes.
LET'S GO ON:
2. Background Reference:
1 Peter 2:24 "who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree."
This means that he bore our sins in his body as a sacrificial substitute for us.
This is the sacrificial system in the old Testament where the Lamb was offered as a substitute to atone for our sins. The Lamb did not bear our sins itself (It was symbolic), but the shed blood of the lamb was offered as a sacrifice for atonement. The Priest laid his hands on the lamb to impute (PUT) our sins onto the lamb (symbolically) and by the shed blood of the lamb, the righteousness of Christ was imputed (CREDITED) to us (symbolically).
[Romans 4:5-8; 2 Corinthians 5:21b] We covered this in a prior article.
- Hebrews 9:26 "He hath appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself."
- Hebrews 9:28 "Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many."
- 1 John 3:5 "He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin."
This says that even though he took away our sins by way of his blood sacrifice for us, there was in Himself no sin. The sacrifice under the law had to be perfect, without spot or blemish. On top of that He is God. Remember our lesson where numerous places Jesus was shown to be equal to God.