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What Happened on that Cross?
What Happened on that Cross?
What happened on the cross? Did Jesus literally become a sinful creature?
Both Classical Calvinism and its modern version of Reformed Theology teach that Jesus’s righteousness is imputed to us. They picture this as an umbrella covering us, which leads to once saved always, because we are covered by Jesus’s righteousness.
That “sounds” good and correct, but it is not. It is one half of a terrible false theology which is: On the cross, there is a transference of Jesus’s sinlessness onto us; and our sinfulness onto Jesus. While Jesus bore the guilt of our sins as punishment, did Jesus literally become guilty of our sins? No!
While the Bible does teach Jesus suffered for our sins and became “sin” as in a sin offering (2 Corinthians5:21), besides a lack of biblical evidence, there are several problems with teaching Jesus literally became sinful due to our sins being transferred onto Him.
If our sins became Jesus’s sins so that He actually was covered by our sins, then:
1. Doesn’t Jesus become an unrighteous sacrifice?
2. How does Jesus become righteous again if He became unrighteous?
3. Wouldn’t Jesus need to become a sacrifice for Himself to become righteous again? How could that be if Jesus is now covered in our sins?
4. If we are once saved always saved because Jesus’s righteousness is transferred to us, then doesn’t Jesus become once damned always damned because our sins were transferred to Him?
What happened on the cross is Jesus remained sinless because He is the perfect lamb of God (John 1). We are covered by the blood of Jesus and become righteous because we are truly forgiven. God doesn’t see Jesus as a being worthy of His wrath on that cross. God sees Jesus become the true mercy seat.
Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need (Hebrews 4:16).
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Sam Carter
I love that you saw these things too. I have gotten very much flak for saying things similarly
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