On the Reason Christ Died for Us

 Jesus Christ died for us so that we could die with him. In this way death was satisfied. It wasn't about God needing a blood sacrifice to forgive us, it was about finding a way to satisfy the necessary outcome of our inherited malfunction without actually ending the physical lives of the entire human race from the first Adam onward. It was about making a way to bypass that inherited malfunction by enslaving us to Himself voluntarily on His part and on ourse, so that we don't have to be enslaved to our own malfunctioning psyche. And because he included all of us in His death, all of us are included in His resurrection, of which He is only the first.

     God will happily forgive what we do wrong without violence to anyone or anything when we turn from it to Him. He didn't really want blood from anything, that was a human idea. But there is only one outcome where the malfunction is concerned, and that is death. It isn't a punishment, but a natural consequence. Once that consequence has been rendered, the person who has died has been righted from the malfunction because the malfunctioning neurology is no longer functioning, but begins its state of decomposition. By enslaving us to Himself with our permission  by means of His death on the cross, this same effect is achieved without the physical body needing to die. It can continue to live a normal lifespan. And in this way, we are able through this voluntary enslavement to actually do what He wants us to do. Not so that God could forgive us like some angry tribal deity like Molech, but so that we could actually function the way He intended, dealing with the malfunction which began with the first Adam.

     God takes people where they are at, that is, He knows that it would take a lot of time to re-teach people and correct their worldview, and they would be resistant to it at best. So instead, He works within their worldview with the intention of moving them closer to the truth at a speed their minds can handle. For some, it takes centuries or millennia, for others, not quite as long. But His goal with everyone is that they might all be rescued and that He might bring them all (if at all possible, the choice is theirs, but He is very patient) to share in His Eternal Life, to be immersed in His love, care, compassion, joy, peace, kindness, and light.

     God loves. The truth is, this is an understatement, and there is no word in any human language sufficient to express the term "love" as it applies to God. He's angry at the malfunction and hates how it hurt and hurts us. But He's not angry at us, His sick and malfunctioning children. His creations for which He moved heaven and earth to heal and make right.