Denny answers:
God requires us to believe in Jesus in order to receive forgiveness because He died in our place.
This was God’s perfect plan. God tells us in the Bible that the only way to pay for our sins is for someone to die. In the past, God’s people killed animals for sacrifices to pay for their sins, but after Jesus came, we no longer needed to do that. When Jesus died, He took the punishment, once and for all, that we should have had to suffer.
God can’t forgive everyone in the world because everyone doesn’t believe that Jesus died for them. We have to personally believe that Jesus is our Savior who died for us in order to receive forgiveness.
Bible Truth
- “God made Him [Jesus] who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
- “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
- “…now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him (Hebrews 8:26b-28).
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